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To: ebb tide
Do you believe Hell is empty?

Sadly and unfortunately, no, but certainly not populated with those that come to Jesus (John 6:37).

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:16-18.

Jesus Christ is THE issue for time and eternity. God executed the full condemnation and punishment for the sins of the whole world on the body of his beloved Son in Christ's perfect sacrifice on the cross (1 John 2:2). Man was tangled up hopelessly in sin utterly unable to extricate himself. Thus God in his great mercy decidedly dealt with the sins of the whole world 2000 years ago on the cross.

The only issue that remains is Christ. Christ is the determining factor for our time and eternity. What sends people to Heaven is their receiving Christ. What sends people to Hell is their sad and unnecessary decision to reject the Christ and his free gift of forgiveness and salvation thus dying in their sins.

13 posted on 02/15/2018 10:52:53 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Jim 0216

Why do you think God destroyed Sodom?


14 posted on 02/15/2018 10:54:12 AM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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