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Yes I believe hell is a real place and I believe it is eternal and I believe the only way to Heaven is through Jesus.
Matthew 25:41 "Then the King will turn to those on the left and say away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons".
John 14:6 "Jesus told him, I am the way, the truth, and life, no one can come to the Father except through Me".
Tried to rep you but I have to spread them more before I can.
You really bless my heart with your boldness to stand up for the truth!
Love ya!
Au contraire! If you think for an instant that our little will displaces the Will of all wills, think again! Perhaps all/pas does not mean everything to you Lover of N.C., but alas, it is indeed all inclusive, and radically means all. That is why the Living One has spoken by/ through the mouths of the prophets from the earliest ages regarding the restitution of all things.
Fire Is The Portion Of All
These words bring us to the New Testament. There we find that "fire," like judgment, so far from being the sinner's portion ONLY, is the portion of all. Like God's judgment again, it is not future merely, but present; it is "already kindled," always kindled: its object is not torment, but cleansing. The proof comes from the lips of our Lord Himself. "I am come to send fire on the earth," for it is certain that He came as a Saviour. Thus, coming to save, Christ comes with fire, nay, with fire already kindled. He comes to baptize with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
Therefore, it is that Christ teaches in solemn passage (usually misunderstood, Mark 9:43) that everyone shall be salted with fire. And so the "fire is to try every man's work." He whose work fails is saved (mark the word saved), not damned "so as by fire," by consuming what is evil, saves and refines
Amen!
"Now judgment is upon this world, now the ruler of this world has been cast out, and I, if I am lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto Myself." (John 12:32)
No one will resist His drawing forever...Satan has been defeated. Amen. God bless.
Matthew 25:41Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers; (Young's Literal)
For as long as I can remember, I was taught about Jesus. My mother was a Christian and my Father was not (but he was saved a couple of years ago). My mother diligently took us to church every Sunday morning, evening and Wednesday night. I remember as a child crying in my pillow because I thought my Dad was going to be eternally in Hell if he died in unbelief. I prayed every night that he would become a Christian.
For many, many years I took this to be what Christianity was in its entirety - an exclusive country club of sorts where the "in" crowd would be given eternal bliss for a belief I myself was entirely unable to conjure up within myself, and where those not belonging to the "in" crowd would be tortured forever simply on account of not having gone through a bunch of motions that I saw as arbitrary and pointless. And, as a result, I loathed Christianity. Not only did I loathe Christianity, however; I also could not possibly understand how people could believe not only in the eternal torment of most of humanity but also could love this deity who would do such a thing. (And, to this day, I still do not understand how people could do so.)
But, at the same time, I could not shake an undeniable fear dwelling within my heart. That fear was very simple: what if they were right? What if I was hell-bound, and what if I was going to burn in hell for all eternity? I had read their statements in earnest, saying that all one must do is accept Jesus as one's lord and savior, and hey presto, eternal life. So I tried - many, many times. I knew they told me how "overwhelming" the sensation was of being saved, and I kept trying again and again to accept Jesus as my lord and savior and I kept waiting for that feeling to wash over me. But it never did. I could only come to one conclusion: if God truly did require that in order for me to go to heaven, then he must not want me to go to heaven. And it was on that thought that I stayed for a long time - the idea that I was quite simply unwanted by God. In retrospect, I don't think the utter hopelessness of that idea truly ever sank in, because I surely would have been nigh suicidal if I truly believed that God had created me only to abandon me to eternal torture upon my death.
Just once I will like to get a straight answer from a uniterian/ universalist. This is simple, it's a yes and no question. If you ask me, Is Jesus the only way? I would say, YES! Now your turn. Do you believe that all roads lead to heaven, you can be a buddhist, Muslim etc....and still go heaven. YES OR NO?
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