Quote:
Originally Posted by Christie
How can God only love Christians when ALL the people on this planet are HIS children? If one of your kids would lost his way to the real God and you can do nothing to bring them back, would you let them to burn in Hell? Would you stop loving your child?
|
Did you read the verses of the Bible above? They come from the ONLY reliable source that tells us about the will of God! It's what He says. Apparently, many people do not like what He says and many false Churches try to hide this fearsome but TRUE aspect of Our LORD.
What if my children were unsaved. I would try to discipline them:
Proverbs 29:15 - The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 22:15 - Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14 - Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
Proverbs 13:24 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 29:17 - Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
If that failed, I would choose Jesus. He tells us as much:
Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
If the child did not repent, I would be sorry in this world. After RAPTURE, in Heaven, I would be able to see its writhings in the eternal furnace, but under the tender eyes of JESUS I would understand
God's Master Plan and rejoice in the torment of the sinners in Hell. I will.
We can certainly discard these parts of the Bible. But then it's not Christianity any more but a lukewarm soup of colorful algae on the lake of summer, nice colours in false rainbow dazzle but ultimately
toxic and repulsive.
I choose the Whole God, not only one half. There is love and fear and joy and terror. That is God!
Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
GOD IN HIS GLORY!
Yours in Christ,
Elmer