But He won't force you. It's gotta be your decision--not His.
Once your life ends, that's it. The time for decisions is over. The time for sentencing begins.
My whole point is, how could you reject God if you actually met him in person. You couldn’t. That is my point.
I understand we are called upon to embrace God by our faith. Doubting Thomas was lesser because he could only embrace Christ after experiencing him first hand in person, and not on faith. And I understand how crucial it is we have faith.
But I am not prepared to believe that hell is for people who reject Christ out of hand from pure ignorance. And most are in that category. There isn’t a single person on this earth who would not embrace Christ with violent vigor if they met him in person. It would be impossible to do otherwise after feeling his love in person. Adolph Hitler would be actively saving Jewish People after he met Christ.
You can’t reject chocolate you have never eaten, because you don’t know how good it is.
That is my point. You can’t truly reject Christ from ignorance, because you have no 1st hand experience to do so.
I am not asking others to believe what I believe. All I am saying is, NOBODY would reject Christ if they met him. It would be flat impossible. People who reject Christ do so from complete and utter ignorance. And it is inconceivable to me that God could do such a thing.
I understand that my beliefs are not in accord with my Catholic religion and teaching whereby you must acccept Christ as your Savior by your faith and you have free will to reject him, and condemn yourself to hell. This is what the article says and what all of you also believe. I am saying I find it hard to believe. As my parents would never let me make a grievous error born our of supreme ignorance, I find it hard to believe that God would even be capable of such a thing.
This is my enigma.