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| From: [email protected] (Lawrence C. Foard) | |
| Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian | |
| Subject: Re: Assurance of Hell | |
| Message-ID: <[email protected]> | |
| Date: 21 Apr 93 07:26:40 GMT | |
| Sender: [email protected] | |
| Organization: ITC/UVA Community Access UNIX/Internet Project | |
| Lines: 43 | |
| Approved: [email protected] | |
| In article <[email protected]> [email protected] writes: | |
| > | |
| >I dreamed that the great judgment morning had dawned, | |
| > and the trumpet had blown. | |
| >I dreamed that the sinners had gathered for judgment | |
| > before the white throne. | |
| >Oh what weeping and wailing as the lost were told of their fate. | |
| >They cried for the rock and the mountains. | |
| >They prayed, but their prayers were too late. | |
| >The soul that had put off salvation, | |
| >"Not tonight I'll get saved by and by. | |
| > No time now to think of ....... religion," | |
| >Alas, he had found time to die. | |
| >And I saw a Great White Throne. | |
| If I believed in the God of the bible I would be very fearful of making | |
| this statement. Doesn't it say those who judge will be judged by the | |
| same measure? | |
| >Now, some have protest by saying that the fear of hell is not good for | |
| >motivation, yet Jesus thought it was. Paul thought it was. Paul said, | |
| >"Knowing therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." | |
| A God who must motivate through fear is not a God worthy of worship. | |
| If the God Jesus spoke of did indeed exist he would not need hell to | |
| convince people to worship him. | |
| >Today, too much of our evangelism is nothing but soft soap and some of | |
| >it is nothing but evangelical salesmanship. We don't tell people anymore, that | |
| >there's such a thing as sin or that there's such a place as hell. | |
| It was the myth of hell that made me finally realize that the whole thing | |
| was untrue. If it hadn't been for hell I would still be a believer today. | |
| The myth of hell made me realize that if there was a God that he was not | |
| the all knowing and all good God he claimed to be. Why should I take such | |
| a being at his word, even if there was evidence for his existance? | |
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