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To: Alex Murphy
I guess I'll add my 2 cents....

As a Christian, we know 2 things for certain:

1) Hell is a bad place. You don't want to go there. Mankind, because of the Original Sin of Adam and Eve, is destined to go there because they do not meet God's standards of perfection.

2) Because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, on a Roman cross, you don't have to go to Hell...IF you believe that He died, rose again from the dead, AND are willing to freely turn your life over to His care and direction as Lord.

Now, having said that, it does follow that a Christian, knowing that Hell is a bad place, would not wish for anyone to go there. However, that is not true for all. I'll 'splain...

One of the things that Hell signifies is the concept of Ultimate Justice. It doesn't matter your social status, how much money you did or did not have, who you know on earth, or any other factor SAVE for the submission of your life to Jesus. It means that all the terrible people we've heard about over the years who have passed away are now, and will forever more be punished for their crimes. Every unrepentant soul, no matter who they are, who either decided that they openly reject Jesus and want live their own way, or simply did not care, is now and forever more will be tormented in eternal flames.

This means that people who mock the Christian religion, although Christians might be unable to do anything about it, unless they repent, will be ultimately punished.

It means the foul creep who kills a family and robs their home, even though he is never caught, unless he repents, will be ultimately punished.

It means that the fat cat who cares nothing for the poor person and lives only for his own pleasures, unless he repents, will be ultimately punished.

It means the Congressperson or Senator who passes laws that fly in the face of the laws of God, or who's inaction causes the death of innocents...no matter their age, or whose lives are monuments to corruption and greed, unless they repent, will be ultimately punished.

It means the judge, no matter how high the bench they sit on, that do not provide true justice but instead rule on laws that prevent justice from happening, unless they repent, will be ultimately punished.

It means that everyone from the illegal alien to the DUmmies who deride us...from the liberal Democrat who demands special rights for homosexuals, to the environmentalists who wish to cripple the economy and throw us all back to the Middle Ages in the name of "Mother Earth"...from the Islamic Jihadist who wants all American infidels dead, to the former President who sullied the office he held with adultery (and his wife who likely had people murdered)...

Unless they ALL repent and name Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God as their Lord and Savior...then they will eventually face Ultimate Justice and be sent for an eternity in the everlasting fires of Hell.

75 posted on 07/18/2008 9:06:09 AM PDT by hoagy62 (No surrender, no retreat, no quarter, no compromise...no kidding!)
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To: hoagy62

Preach it, Brother!


94 posted on 07/18/2008 9:44:48 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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