Please explain your answer.
2006-10-11 18:55:59 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Neither. I could not accept God if he had not first loved me enough to send his only begotten son. In accepting his love, then acceptance of his son is easy, and it totally leaves the equation of having to fear hell out of the decision making process. God didn't call me out so I would only not be afraid of hell, he called me out because He loves me. That's what I accepted, a Savior and Lord that came because he loves me. That's what I live and serve each day, a Savior and Lord that loves me. Not a tyrant who holds over my head a fear factor. The consequences of my very birth is hell, so that is not an option, it is a result. But to accept Christ and his love, that is an option.
2006-10-11 19:06:12 · answer #1 · answered by dph_40 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I accept God because of the amazing thing I find in life, about his creation and everything. If you learn about the human bodies and how it works you will be amazed on how everything single thing work. So does the plant, animal, planet, environment. It is so amazing how all these things work and follow God's rule. Just imagine if they don't abide by God's rule, everything will be in havoc and chaos. Like what human being is doing now. Only human being are so selfish and don't live by the God's rule. The rest still follow.
2006-10-12 02:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by betty boo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I accept God because I love and appreciate what He has done for me.
My BC life was so terrible that when I tell some people about it they do not believe me. My transformation still amazes me.
I was living on the outskirts of Hell, and God rescued me. I am very grateful.
2006-10-12 02:55:21 · answer #3 · answered by Jael 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not want to go to hell but I accept God because I love Him and I am thankful for all the blessings he has given me.
2006-10-12 02:00:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Funny you ask. When I was about 13 a friend asked me if I was borne again. I knew if I said no I'd go to Hell, I answered I don't know. I got home + asked Mom -She said no -I was glad to not be the only one going to burn. Later on that year I did accept Jesus in my heart, this was when I realized He loved me before time began WOW!!!
The Lord prepared my heart first, then showed His Love for me to enable me toaccept Him, not because of the fear of Hell - that was not meant for man anyway
2006-10-12 02:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by tracey s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both. There is no one more worthy of love than God who is love. And I also accept God because I fear going to hell, from which God, through the light of His love, saves me!
2006-10-12 02:00:17 · answer #6 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I accept God because I was made to do so. It is natural. Just like an orphan who even as an adult longs meet their parents, people are drawn to God. I love God as the Bible says because he first loved me. People are happier when they are close to God. It feels good to reconcile a broken relationship.
2006-10-12 02:05:38 · answer #7 · answered by thechristianviewpoint 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I accept God because he is real to me.
I believe that earth can be considered hell with all the bs that it has to offer.
Loving God is another thing. I learned that loving God is loving and living His word and frankly my dear I am far from living His word wether i love it or not. SO you got me there.
2006-10-12 02:00:39 · answer #8 · answered by beachgirl90 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
er, it was the other way around for me, I'm afraid. He picked me. I tried running away like a ton of times, and He kept catching me. Isn't that the way of it?
Once he showed me what Mer was, and the incredible pressures and forces, yet, with Him, it was bearable as if it were the tallest mountain, not the deepest ocean. This was where His chosen bride dwelt, and she joyfully accepted it.
another time, He took me into the desert, and I saw Manna falling from the sky, and people picking it up in joy, and it was Him, He was giving of Himself. He's just on the ground, and will lay upon the ground at our feet waiting for us to make Him into bread. We just have to want to do it.
Yet another time, He smiled and reached into my chest and pulled out my heart and placed it behind His and He only smiled, and I wondered: "How the heck can I live without that?" "Keeping it safe," he seemed to say. "Ah," I thought. And knew that troubling times were upon me.
2006-10-12 01:58:18 · answer #9 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that most accept Him because they see the need for forgiveness. for most people, learning that you do the things He hates, but He is willing to forgive you is what opens there heart. I had a hard time believeing that it was that simple, because I've done a lot of messed up things. I figured that He couldn't forgive someone like me, and decided that if I was going to hell then when I got there , the devil was going to be scared of ME, not me be scared of him. I convinced my self that when I got there I was Going to take over the place. But then God came to me and told me " I understand what you do and why you do it, your special and the devil wants you, keep your faith." I learned that he loves me and wants me to love Him and to spend eternity with Him, that changed me, but I didn't know that it was Jesus. I know it was the God of Israel, but I thought that worshipping Jesus was blasphemy, and spent years looking for flaws in Jesus' story. I found many. And again God came to me and told me that my purpose in life was to love Him, that my eyes see(still not sure what) and that He had One Son. Now I KNOW, not believe, KNOW that Jesus loves me, came and died for my sins. If I have one thing to do in this world, other then to learn to love God, it is to tell people to ask God Himself if He is real, He will answer.
2006-10-12 02:22:52 · answer #10 · answered by TYRONE S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋