Christians face a choice when they are told that most of humanity will end up in a final place of perpetual and un-ending torment... They can choose to believe in hell for sinners or hell for sins.
One belief is a sad end for mankind and the other is "good news" to all of mankind.
Does a belief that hell is for sinners instead of sins run against the grain of what you believe a loving God would do to His creation? Hell is a torture chamber taken from Greek mythology and not from the Torah. The mythologial Greek Hell is used by men to frighten fearful people into accepting a God that in their beliefs doom the bulk of humainty to eternal torture...but is this what the early Christians believed:
For just as in Adam all people died, so also shall all in Christ be made alive!" (1 Corinthians 15:22)
Hell has been mis-translated and then mis-used out of context by a church formed not by God but rather by men.
There is a place that could be called hell or separation from God but that Hell is a place where the angels of luc_fer reside. There are no human souls that eternally reside in that place of torment but many people do choose to let that hell inhabit their own lives.
Choosing Jesus (Yahshua) Christ and becoming a Christian by discovering the true nature of God's love, Christians should be so filled with the same love that God shows them that they should not be capable of holding their tounge... Filled with the Holy Spirit, Christians should then be compelled to tell the world about the wonderful Savior of the world. Men who hardened their hearts from God's love rationalized another system of beliefs and the father of that system is called the Father of Lies and he was a Murderer from the beginning: luc_fer. God the Father of Jesus is not the muderer but it is luc_fer who torments men. There are two churches that both call themselves Christian but one is far from God's love: One church is made with hands and teaches that the bulk of mankind will be tormented forever; the other church, which was made by Yahshua(Jesus Christ), is within each of us who begins communicating with God. The false church is pointing its fingers and judging the world while the other church is the quiet still voice of God who has become our comforter. We can serve but one master but every day Christians choose to answer to the call of the "Accuser" while ignoring the quiet still voice of a loving God.
What does end up in Hell or seperated from God? God knows each and every one of our good intentions and God will not throw away our Non-Christian friend's good intentions or my good intentions as a Christian. That said, nothing we do in our flesh is free of selfish intentions, so all of our selfish intentions, sin, sickness, iniquity, or twisted ideas and actions will be separated from us and straightened out when we come into the presence of God. As we stand before the throne of God, Yahsua will stand in the world's place and ask God to forgive us for we knew not what we did. If we knew the true nature of God and that God loved the world then we would never believe that God ever intended for us to be eternally tormented in a hell for sinners.
When we ( spiritually speaking every voice) stand before the Father... every tounge will confess that Jesus Christ(Yahshua) is Lord, and we (every spirit) will be saved from the torment of separation from God that we knew while we lived. All of our selfish intentions will then be cast as far as the East is from the West and remembered no more. We are all God's Children and although we were all made disobediant because of Adam's separation from God, we will all be made alive through the Annointed One's sacrifice, Jesus the Savior of the world. That is the "good news" but men who were not filled with that "good news" for all men created hell to bring bad news to most men.
Luke 6:46-4946 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Being to love your neighbor as yourself and loving God(Yah) with all of your heart and mind.
47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
If we believe God is love and do as God tells us then we will be rewarded on Earth as it is in heaven but men often choose to chase after men's doctrines of intimidation and fear when they should be filled by the Holy Spirit and spreading the "Good News."
Mark 10:29-30
29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
When I was a small child, I believed that God loved every person and even every little child. I didn't make a confession of faith until I was eleven but somehow I know that God loved me well before then. My confession of faith was awesome...When I confessed that Jesus Christ was Lord of my life and was baptised, God spoke to the angels and said, "He is set aside." I heard that voice clearly for the first time in my life but it took many years before I knew what I was set aside to do. I have come to realize that God sets aside all of those who confess that Jesus Christ( Yahshua The Annointed One) is Lord in their life enter a contract with God to bring the "good news!" of God's grace to the world...but like so many Christians... I became caught up in doctrines and beliefs of men after my salvation and listened to men spreading bad news to anyone who did not believe as they did. I returned to the world because I believed the people of my church were hypocritical, sad, and joyless people who just didn't get the message I knew in heart: God is love.
If we believe that God loved us although we were yet sinners... then we should behave as if we loved a God who loves others who are not yet Christians. Maintaining a childlike love of God is so much more important than teaching a false doctrine of hell for sinners. Only by maintaining that childlike knowing that God is love can we enter that place of God's protection in this life. Outside of that childlike belief in God's love are ravenous wolves wanting to consume all of our joy. Choosing joy, we can fully activate the Holy Spirit in our lives but choosing condemnation and judgement for many of our friends and countless strangers, we choose a sad path that only leads to the grave.
Just as we would not torture our children, God will never leave his children or forsake them in this life or in the one to come. What God has sent into the world, God will reconcile to love, when "all" things will be made new. Looking into the eyes of my young baby, I love her with all of my heart...and all of my mind...with all of my soul.. and all of my understanding...I love her all of my strength. Would I believe that a loving God would do any less?
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