Re: The Role of Hell in the Gospel Message?
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:19 am
(Verbatim; Gold has an incredible resistance to oxygen, thus it wont burn. Silver has a similarly high tolerance to oxygen and burning, but not so high. Interestingly silver is quite often gleaned from gold smelting)
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Hell is akin to judgment. So what does it mean to be saved?
The verdict was death, upon all men.
The weight of our sins had produced death, we are as dead men, like those bitten by snakes, we like them had to look to the Cross because we were going to die.
News flash! Gospel means - Good news - thus it means there is - Bad news - the Law of death, and of punishment.
I do not assume that someone is saved if they do no believe they needed saving. If someone claims to accept Christ but later denies that they needed to be saved from judgment, the punishments of sin, including death, and hell, then they haven’t yet been saved from their delusions.
Remember, I hold that God will 'fairly' punish with just judgment, then annihilate the sinner. Maybe some will not experience anything but destruction, and the judgment itself. But both judgment and destruction are clearly repeated over and over in scripture, we can accept and believe, or you can choose not to believe, Gods Word.
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Hell is akin to judgment. So what does it mean to be saved?
The verdict was death, upon all men.
The weight of our sins had produced death, we are as dead men, like those bitten by snakes, we like them had to look to the Cross because we were going to die.
News flash! Gospel means - Good news - thus it means there is - Bad news - the Law of death, and of punishment.
I do not assume that someone is saved if they do no believe they needed saving. If someone claims to accept Christ but later denies that they needed to be saved from judgment, the punishments of sin, including death, and hell, then they haven’t yet been saved from their delusions.
Remember, I hold that God will 'fairly' punish with just judgment, then annihilate the sinner. Maybe some will not experience anything but destruction, and the judgment itself. But both judgment and destruction are clearly repeated over and over in scripture, we can accept and believe, or you can choose not to believe, Gods Word.