People who doubt and neglect God, say: I ain’t done anything wrong! So what’s up; if there really is a God, then I’m ok - so why bother and all this talk about heaven or hell? And in any case, the whole Bible is nothing but a terrible thread. You better don’t read that stuff!
Now, that’s same as if a craftsman says: All this bookkeeping is rubbish. I don’t, saves me a lot of bother.
The end of this will inevitably will be bankruptcy! No way to avoid this normal run of things!
How much more so, with eternal, and even divine things. Everything on earth is transitory and worthless (exceptgood deeds and the believe in God). The world is ephemeral; God, and we too ourselves are eternal. This does NOT make us „in some sense gods and goddesses“ as someone writes on page 1 of this thread. Satan’s life is everlasting too, and he by no means is a god either. Neither are the Angels in heaven any gods.
Now, the frequently heard word "IF THERE IS A GOD“ is such a terribly dismissive attitude towards God and His love in which He even gave His only begotten Son to save us in spite of our sins, that we might well call it a mortal sin to react uninterested in God.
Which father would not be deadly insulted and mortally offended if his children would disregard completely his love, his efforts about his offsprings and even his very existence. Disregarding, ignoring and neglecting a person by not even caring if this close relative is actually alive or not, is the peak of lovelessness and indeed condemnable. How much more so with God Himself.
What would we do, if we did the outmost we could to save someone, and this person then would doubt we ever did and even deny our existence… Such behavior is challenging God to prove anew to this individual that God even exists. I in fact heard the blasphemy; „Oh. God didn’t introduce Himself to me“.
God will in return disregard and deny the existence of this person - and there will be a weeping and gnashing with teeth and self-condemnation of one’s life on earth and now for all eternity, for this human scorned God’s deed of love, and made life to pious people who where loved by God, unworthy to live.
Since God is the absolute justness, God will never award those who rebuffed His love same way as God will raise those who loved Him, for they already are condemned in their lifetime - are condemned by all circumstances they planted themselves. How by all means could ever he, who took up his cross and followed Jesus, receive same eternal life in God’s Kingdom as he, who threw this cross away and lived a life without God and even to the disadvantage of those loved by God?!
John 3,17: For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not condemned. The one who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
This is NOT and by no means a thread, but a ever so natural succession of things we ourselves arranged that way, through either joyful and grateful acknowledgment and acceptance of God’s tremendous deeds of love for our salvation - or refusing and rebuffing God and His deeds for us. God provided a just place for both and all knew this all the time when they where on earth. But some laughed and scorned about it. They are the ones among us, who scorned, hurt, flagellated and crucified Jesus Christ.
Yes, the original ones who did, Jesus asked not to be judged, for they didn’t know hat they where doing. We all of today though, do know!
Neither is this a thread of God in the Old Covenant, as repeated numerous times by Jesus Christ in the New Covenant that he who condemns Christ, is condemned already.
Yours
Bruno
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