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Originally Posted by Bubba Buck
That's why I'm in the help forum. I am having trouble finding scriptures pertaining to this....
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The Holy Bible is very clear about Hell, what it is, and what will send you there. Jesus describes Hell as as eternal and unquenchable fire (Matthew 3:12; Matthew 25:41; Mark 9:44-49), a place of shame and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2), and everlasting destruction is all one can look forward to (2 Thessalonians 1:9). Revelation describes hell as a lake of burning sulfur where the wicked are "tormented day and night forever and ever." (Revelation 20:10) This is the default position Jesus created for us before we were born, and He will personally condemn to eternal damnation those who refuse to accept the one and only condition of His Gift of Salvation - Belief (John 3:18).
Glory!
The Apostle Paul tells us in his second letter to the Corinthians that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God. He implores Christians to not be deceived by the comforting assurances of worldly men (1 Corinthians 6:9-10), for they will lead you astray with their confounded secular logic and appeal to higher moral code. You would be wise to come to the Bible for advice.
So what is the Righteous Man like? Let me first remind you of what he is
not like.
He is not a homo. The worldly man will argue that as long as two or more adults consent to an act, we should be free to do whatever we want with our bodies. This is a lie. Paul reminds us that every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. The Righteous man is not his own, for he was bought with a price. To sin against your own body is to rape the baby Jesus (1 Corinthians 6.18-20).
He is not gluttonous. Gluttony is an excessive love of food, one that pushes Christ out of the way. The Bible tells us the enemies of Christ serve their bellies as gods (Philippians 3.18-19). This is not to be confused with the man who puts his trust in the LORD (Proverbs 28:25).
He does not despise the Egyptian. The Righteous Man obeys the commandments of the LORD (Matthew 5:17; James 2:10), and does not despise the Egyptian (Deuteronomy 23:7), even if the Egyptians are dirty, uneducated, superstitious, camel-piss drinking apostates who were duped by a filthy, illiterate, Arab pedophile charlatan back in the 7th century.
He is not stingy. David is a role model even today, despite being a selfish, adulterous, murderous tyrant who betrayed his best friend and brought the wrath of God down upon his innocent child. But hearken back to when David was offered the opportunity to buy the girl of his dreams for a mere 100 foreskins. David brought the girl's father twice as much (1 Samuel 18:20-27).
He does not cook a baby goat in its mother's milk. Many people who profess to love Jesus have no idea what really irks Him. This is because they do not read the Holy Bible. Most people do not know that after Moses smashes the 10 commandments in Exodus 32, he gets a new set of tablets in Exodus 34. This requires an 80 year old man to climb the mountain two days in a row, but don't mind the time it would have taken, the point is that God forgave Moses (who did not forgive the Israelites, making them eat the golden calf; Exodus 32:20, while God plagued them; Exodus 32:35). God then wrote a completely new set of commandments, culminating with this one (Exodus 34:1-28). Even the most spiritually infantile Christian knows the importance of keeping the Ten Commandments.
Unless you've been under a rock for your whole life, you'll know what it takes to be a Righteous Man is to be Saved, and the only way to be Saved is to put your faith in Christ. The Bible is a great source of examples of what righteousness looks like, and what kinds of things people put their trust in instead of Christ, but it cannot be expected to produce every encounter every human will ever experience. You won't find anything about Muslims in the Holy Bible, but if you put your Trust in Christ, He will tell you how to best rebuke the sinner when you come upon him, for His spirit will not forsake the True Christian™ (John 16:13).