I heard it said, “The worst part about hell is the total absence of God.”
I agree but…
That is actually what hell is.
Here on earth God gets beat up all the time over the evil in the world. Beat up?
Beat Up
Verbally abused; put down, criticized, gossiped about… gets bad press.
Folks who speak out against God say, “…if there is a God then why…” and they list off the evil horrors going on in the world.
But let me ask you. Is there any good in the world? Yes, there is.
Can we agree that there is both good and bad in the world?
God is the origin of the good, and he is not the origin of evil. We ourselves are also all in the same state. We have good and bad within us.
Romans 3:23 states it plainly, all of us have sinned. What ever you might minimize sin down into, none of us are sinners.
Romans 6:23 states where we are headed, plainly.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
Death and Hell are the same thing. Death is eternal separation from God. When our bodies die, we leave this world. This world is where both good and evil coexist, with God himself limiting the power of evil in the world.
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
Ephesians 1:11
Keep reading that verse until it sinks in… God is in control.
He is patiently waiting out the time between now and the inevitable destiny of this earth. Go back to the garden, in Genesis 3, sin entered into the world, and infected the human race, by an act of the free will of Adam and Eve, the first residents of earth. The earth was cursed, doomed, to end.
I Do Not Understand
I do not. I don’t know why he didn’t just destroy it all right then and there. I do not. The End.
But here it is:
But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.
2 Peter 3:8-10
The Plan:
God is waiting for as many folks as can to turn from being apart from God, to being a part of GOD in this world, through becoming a part of his people. This happens through accepting Jesus Christ.
The Good News is that God has no plan for any of us to go to Hell. His plan is to rescue as many as will come… before he pulls the plug on this world.
When he does, he promises a new heaven and a new earth, and there will no longer be the coexistence of good and evil. It will all be good!
Come And See
What if you who are reading this are curious, not just ready to walk out of the known into the unknown?
Get a Bible. Read this book – the Bible is made up of 66 books, so for understanding its central message (Jesus Christ) look at The book of John’s Gospel.
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