Posted on 05/28/2013 1:21:20 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Absolutely right. John 1:1 say that Jesus was there when God ordered the destruction of Jeticho!
He does abhor the evil ones, no big surprise here, don’t kid yourself that he regards a Christian who sins like a mother would regard her cute little toddler. God is wrathful towards those who know better and sin anyway.
I am just waiting for the evil to get theirs.
Those are the type I were referring to.
Hope You’re Asbestos Underware is clean!
Fire and brimstone. Good sermon. Maybe that is what is wrong with people today. They need to know the TRUTH of what will happen to them if they do not turn to God. My Pastor spoke somewhat of this on Sunday, but very gently. God is a God of love (too many people only see him that way only so they can live as THEY choose) God of compassion and God of grace, but He also is a God of wrath. We would not want Him not to be a God of Wrath. Just and righteous judge.
May God spare us from this common surprise! For he clearly states that he abhors imposters!
Will Christians in heaven rejoice at the sight of their family and friends who are in hell??
Never? You are not looking at Scripture as a whole.
Jesus also had many harsh words for those who would not listen to his message.
I don't think you're thinking of "love" in the correct way.
It is not "acceptance" of sin. God truly does abhor all of us in our natural condition. Sin is absolutely repugnant to him.
His love is seen in that He died for the elect even though our nature is abhorrent to Him. That is real love which no one else in the universe can possess.
I never said any of that. But the greatest wrath is towards those who have indeed been converted by the Holy Spirit and afterwards turned away. The New Testament does not offer condemnation of the unconverted; the promise within those pages is that all people will come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4); wrath is on those who reject God openly after that.
THAT is what the Bible teaches.
“Hellfire and damnation may seem like motivation by fear, and it is.”
I read a fairly recent book about “Is Hell real?”. The pastor went into the study of the Bible with a real open mind, but studied the text in detail. His conclusion is that it is real, and it is real bad, and it is forever.
And it motivated him even more. Not so much to “not sin”, but to witness to others. Not in the old-style hellfire and damnation manner - but the more “Good News” message. At one point when he was studying and it “clicked” - he was in a coffee shop. He stopped and looked at all of the people having a snack, talking, reading, etc. Probably oblivious that there is a Hell. He thought to himself “Hell is terrible! I should be talking to each and everyone of these people instead of sitting here writing my book!”
I have no problem with the hellfire and damnation sermons though - they have their place, but are usually missing from most sermons.
This is false.
Yet no verses are quoted. Are you thinking of “he that believeth not is condemned already” (John 3:18)? There is a deeper meaning to that one; imagine a person getting the news from God Himself and still not believing. The world is full of deception, remember (Revelation 12:9), so it’s not possible that all men can come to the knowledge of absolute truth yet.
Men have died without the righteousness of God throughout history. They still do.
John 3:36.
Romans 2:5
Am I missing something here? Is there some reason Edwards is exempt from leftist hatred? Maybe because they assume if he were around today he'd be be a "queer theory" instructor at a "white privilege" seminar?
Of course, the Confederates (and their neo-Confederate "offspring") have always blamed leftism on New England Puritanism.
Not sure what you mean. This happens all the time.
Remember Pharaoh? Ahab? The parable of the sower and the seed?
People are confronted with truth all the time yet choose to pursue sinful ways. Sin is a strong force; only God's Holy Spirit sent by Him can break it. Thank God we have that Spirit if we believe.
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