Based on my experience of posting on many hundreds of forums, here's what's going to happen now.
The people who want to keep believing that the Bible proves that everyone deserves to suffer forever in hell just because they were born into this world, or because they don’t make the “right” choice before it’s “too late,” or that God created beings with a will so strong that they can irreversibly choose themselves into a state of eternal torment - these people will keep believing it because they want to.
But people who want to believe that the Bible nowhere supports such a concept of God will examine the evidence contained in HIS ACHIEVEMENT ARE WE at http://concordant.org/expohtml/HisAchievement/index.html
and they will learn that the Bible actually teaches universal salvation instead, not even annihilation.
Or, they will go to the search engine at the top of http://www.tentmaker.org and will type in a key word or phrase from any argument or scripture passage. Ten articles will come up refuting the claim that the Bible teaches eternal torment. Then they may click to the next page and ten more articles will come up, and so on and so on for thousands of pages.
The many entries in my guestbook that is accessed towards the bottom of my front page at http://greater-emmanuel.org/Hope4You/
and the many entries at http://www.tentmaker.org/visitorcomments.htm
show just how much this information is helping people.
This was the information that enabled me to recover from a twelve year nervous breakdown, and it gives me great joy to keep learning every day that it is helping more and more other people too!!
Rodger, are you DEPRESSED? You Keep Posting the same thing Over & Over
Although we are careful to hide it, in our heart of hearts, we are almost all depressed and discouraged.
We are born into a world that is a trail of tears, must toil to support ourselves, and have nothing to look forward to but sickness and inevitably, death. Such is man's plight.
Even worse, we have the constant witness of our consciences against us for the many wicked deeds we have done that we would like to forget but cannot.
Knowing these things, philosopher Henry David Thoreau rightly observed that, "Most men live lives of quiet desperation."
There is, however, good news.
The root source of all of life's problems is man's sin -- a problem we all have.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23)
Sin has separated us from God, and thus we are enemies of God and destined for the eternal punishment of Hell. It is our secret awareness (although we may deny it) of these truths, that produces a guilty conscience and depression.
The solution to these problems is the gospel of Christ:
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (1Cor 15:3-4)
The blood that Christ shed for your sins will save you, if you put your trust in it. It is not your works that save you, but what He has already done for you.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, (Titus 3:5)
As a sinner, you are an enemy of God, but through the cross of Christ you can be reconciled.
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: (Col 1:21-22)
The cure for depression and discouragement is to trust Christ for the forgiveness of sins. Christ's shed blood will wash away all of your iniquity and remove the sting of a guilty conscience.
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