People don't like the Bible because it says things they don't like. It's not that they can't figure it what's in the Bible, hey just disagree. It's easy to hide behind the cult of, 'my personal interpretation' is different and who are you to say.
I guess the good Rev. never learned how to read.
Oh, I guess Jesus was wrong, then. Thanks for clearing that up for me, Rev.
Creation will only be redeemed when the bad evil and sin are shut away in a place far from God's mind and memory (Hell).
God doesn't send people to Hell. They send themselves there.
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If I were the good Reverend, I'd start a progressive swimming regimen with millstones tied around my neck.
"In Heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here"
The Bible, both Old and New Testiment, is filled with references to Satan and Hell. How can this person make this kind of statement?
Ok.
Dear Rev: read John 14:6.
Is Heavan a planet?
Sorry Rev, there is a hell.......and its full of Muslims and idiots like you!
For all my many failings, the day I wake up dead I won’t be in a cattle car on the fast train to Satan’s fiery pit. Nor will you. And neither will Old Scratch himself. If he actually exists, the devil too will be saved. In the good news of universalism, God is a loving God who will not rest until the entire creation is redeemed. All creatures will be saved. There is no hell.
Reverend Forest Church, the son of Idaho’s late Senator Frank Church
The key word in this sentence is the word "I".
Universalists believe that God is too good to damn them
Contrary to what one might think, given my previous statement, I believe that to be a true statement.
For all my many failings, the day I wake up dead I won’t be in a cattle car on the fast train to Satan’s fiery pit. Nor will you. And neither will Old Scratch himself. If he actually exists, the devil too will be saved. In the good news of universalism, God is a loving God who will not rest until the entire creation is redeemed. All creatures will be saved. There is no hell.
This is the statement that is hopelessly stupid. There is no "cattle car" to "Satan's fiery pit" for sure, but that isn't hell, and it never was. Hell is, quite simply, the opposite of Heaven. And Heaven is, quite simply, communion with God. If we are not in communion with God then we are "in hell."
When we die we will find ourselves confronted by the reality of God without the delusions and idiotic self deception exemplified by the above statement. I am not capable of imagining what God truly is like, no one is, but we will know exactly who God is and we will know, without the ability to hide behind forgetfullness or rationalizations, exactly how we have failed Him. And we will be ashamed.
God is Mercy, God is Love and God forgives us. But God is not about to let us lie, even to ourselves. And until we get past the absolute truth of our own failures in this life we will be too ashamed to commune with our God. We will condemn ourselves to hell, not God.
God loves us. God has always loved us and God will always love us. And He gave us Jesus as proof of that, as something to hold onto when we have to confront our own failings. We don't have to believe in Jesus to be saved by God or from God's wrath. We are already saved and the proof of God's love is Jesus. That's why we have to believe in Jesus, to convince ourselves to remember God's love when we must inevitably face how we have failed Him.
He certainly can, Pharisee. But He won't without the forgiveness of sins we receive when we acknowledge Christ as Savior.
"Let death seize them; Let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them." - Psalms 55:15
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." - Matthew 25:41 (Jesus' words)
"I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me." - Acts 26:17, 18 (Jesus' words to Saul, later Paul, on the Damascus Road)
Enjoy the education without tuition provided by the many freepers which have answered your proposition.
God says Gehenna exists; you say it doesn't. I believe God.
You are wresting the Scriptures to your own destruction.
May God give you sight and Light.
If he exists? I'd say that the good Reverand is rather selective in his reading of the Bible. Or maybe he forgot the parts that talk about the devil(s).