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What would your reaction be if you find out that this is reality?
I've come to understand that the vast majority of people have no idea that they are heading for a nightmare... on their way to a horror far more horrifying than the scariest horror movie ever produced by Hollywood... I pity them. I really do.
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It was in God's plan that Jesus had to suffer and be crucified... otherwise we wouldn't have received forgiveness of sins, and we wouldn't have been able to go to heaven. That doesn't mean the people who killed him were good... obviously not. But your ideas are polluted, not holy. Renew your mind through the Holy Spirit.
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My friend, I'm afraid what you think is the Holy Spirit telling you that, is actually someone else... because there IS a heaven. Some people have actually been there, shown heaven by Jesus. It has streets of gold, and there are houses already built for the saints who will inhabit them after this life and the second coming of Christ.
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Indeed. In fulfillment of prophecy, God's election unto salvation will be manifested in a "great multitude [...] from all tribes and peoples and languages." (Revelation 7:9)
In the West, there are many people who have heard the Gospel and rejected it. Who knows whether the hardening of their hearts will be permanent, or whether they may one day receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior? I, too, was once lost, but now am found. But very many hearts will be hardened.
It's quite remarkable how well received the Gospel is in non-Western cultures. It is not a "Western religion." I was talking with a Chinese guy recently (born and raised in China) who described that his initial impression of Christianity was that it was just a Western religion. But still the Lord brought him to faith and showed him the light! He came to America, and now he sings the praises of the Lord! Literally!
You have it backwards. We believe in Jesus, who sets us free from this horrible fate!
You see, God is good. Goodness is not merely one of His attributes; God is the source of all goodness. Happiness, comfort, joy, etc... all these things are of God. It is a measure of grace that any of us are able to experience these things. However, sin (defying the will of God) often seems tempting insofar as we choose to serve what we think of as our own pleasure and our own will rather than God's will and God's pleasure. The consequences of sin are literally everything that's bad about this world. Death, disease, pain, suffering, etc. In pursuing our own happiness, we cause the infliction of misery upon others and--ultimately, if not more immediately--ourselves.
So God cannot tolerate sin. His wrath and anger are necessitated by His goodness and love. Sin leads to judgment, and God's judgment is just: separation from God. Remember - God is the source of everything good. Apart from God, nothing good can exist. So the eternal torture of hell is what separation from God actually entails.
None of us can live up to God's righteousness. The only way to be saved is to accept that Jesus, the Son of God, paid the full penalty for your sins. In doing so, you must understand that you are choosing Jesus as your Master and yourself as His slave. And a prized possession, at that - purchased at a very high price! Otherwise, without Jesus, you are a slave to sin, a slave of Satan, which leads to eternal death.
Which option will it be? Whom will you choose to serve? There are only two options.
Matthew 7:13-14: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
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