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How can a loving God send people to Hell? Can God just do anything He wants?. Truth? Subjective Relative Absolute. Truth Either there is a God who created us or there is not Either the Bible is His revelation to us or it is not. You either approach Him through Jesus Christ
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How can a loving God send people to Hell? Can God just do anything He wants?
Truth? • Subjective • Relative • Absolute
Truth • Either there is a God who created us • or there is not • Either the Bible is His revelation to us • or it is not. • You either approach Him through Jesus Christ • or you do not
Relative and Subjective Truth? Lies are intended to look and sound like truth
Subjective Relative Truth Doesn’t ask much, no response is needed. Absolute Truth Requires a response
Truth John 14:6 “Jesus answered him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.” Jesus said: “I tell you the truth” 75 times!
Hell? Lake of fire?
Good People? Is it relative? Absolute Standards?
Absolute Standards We are sinners Romans 3:23 “Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short of God’s glory.”
Character of God Love Just Holy
Character of God, Just and Holy Psalm 9:16 “The Lord is known by the judgment He has carried out. The wicked person is trapped by the work of his own hands.”
Character of God, Just and Holy Psalm 11:7 “The Lord is righteous. He loves a righteous way of life.”
Character of God, Love 2 Peter 3:9 “He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to have an opportunity to turn to Him and change the way they think and act.”
Character of God, Love and Just Psalm 101:1 “I will sing about mercy and justice. O Lord, I will make music to praise you.”
“God made you ‘little lower than angels’; sin has made you little better than the devil.” Joseph Alleine
Character of God Loving and Just What is God to do?
Character of God Loving and Just Romans 5:8 “Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This demonstrates God’s love for us.”
How can a loving God send people to Hell? No He does not
God sends people to heaven Romans 10:9-13
Sin is hell begun; Relationship with God is heaven anticipated!
Should we say people are sending themselves to hell? Do people choose hell?
CS Lewis “I willingly believe that the damned are in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no hell.”
Heaven Or Hell
God offers heaven People are refusing to follow God to heaven!
Moral Restraint Has value