Page 356 … the eternal Consequence
Next, you claim that, “Hell is a free will choice of eternal consequence”, a sentence which frankly inspired me to wonder whether you are even listening to what you are saying … My dear Lucy, for us humans – who have been formed from the beginning with a hopelessly less than perfect understanding of either the “mysteries of God” (see Job 11:7 & Job 26:14 & Job 36:26) or the subtle intricacies of the Divine Realm (see Isaiah 55:8-9), there is no such thing as “a free will choice of eternal consequences”! And this is primarily so because every single one of those damned to Hell (except clinically diagnosed masochists, who will actually enjoy the same) will not have believed in your version of a tyrant God before being so condemned, and thereby (quite correctly) won’t ever believe they are worthy of an eternity of suffering no matter what they do or have done. As such, these people most certainly will not be knowingly choosing Hell – on the contrary, 99.9% of them will be completely surprised to arrive there, and will quite certainly desire to depart immediately after arriving … As such, my dear Friend, these “lost Souls” are quite definitely not choosing to suffer forever – rather, it will be your God who will be sending them to their doom and it will be your God who will be keeping them there! … As such, while you might be able to push your own failings off on “the saving blood of Christ” (an immoral choice in & of itself), your all-knowing & all-powerful God cannot get off that easy for His acts of raw injustice & abject cruelty.
How fortunate, then, that Christians have an alternative God – a God of perfect Love & unending Grace & great Mercy waiting to be worshiped within the pages of their very own Bibles – namely, the Father of Jesus Christ!
“The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with house of Israel … I will put my Law within them, and I will write it on their Hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other ‘Know the Lord’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest … for I will Forgive their iniquity, and remember their sins no more.” ~ Jeremiah 31:31-34
“For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is Good; but if salt has lost its taste, how can you restore its saltiness? By having salt in yourselves and being at peace with one another … For the Son of Man came to seek out and save the lost … So it is not the Will of your Father in Heaven that not even one of these little ones should be lost.” ~ Jesus Christ (Mark 9:49 + Luke 19:10 & Matthew 18:14)
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