If so, as a new Christian, I always feel I fall short of God's expectations, and to be honest with you, I am worried that I will very likely go to hell after I die, if I don't grow rapidly in Jesus. Am I normal ? I mean the fear.
2007-05-23 15:37:34 · 21 answers · asked by Gone 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is not temptation taken you but such is common to man but will with that same temptation also offer a way of escape that ye may bear it.
commune with God through prayer and maintain fellowship with him in the same manor: ever seeking to improve
2007-05-23 17:00:13 · answer #1 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you have excepted Jesus as your Savior then you can be sure that you will be in Heaven. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God Romans 3:23. This is why Jesus came and died for us. It is by He grace that you will go to Heaven, not by anything you do. You will sin until the day you die but it is not the body that Christ saved it is the soul and the soul cannot sin once you have given it to Christ. Paul tells us in his writings that, the soul wrestles daily with the flesh because the flesh is what sins and the fleshly bodies we have now are not going with us to Heaven, When Jesus returns we will get a new body.
2007-05-23 22:50:58 · answer #2 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christendom has tried for Centuries to scare the Hell out of you! Scare tactics seldom work. God is a God of Love and invites you to come to know him and his ways and imitate Him and his son.
Most People are not going to Heaven! 144,000 Saints (chosen and sealed) will go to Heaven to rule with Christ (Rev. 7:4. ) To rule over whom? The new Heavens and the New Earth Many of the other sheep are resting in their graves awaiting the resurrection to Earth (as Jesus demonstrated his power to do) John 5:29,John 11:25, Acts 24:15, John 6:39, JOHN 11;1-44 And where the Wolf will reside with the lamb etc & the meek will inherit the earth. #37th Psalm. &Pr:2:21 The righteous left over on the Earth. "Just as in the Days of Noah Lu 17:26.
Do not live in fear of Hell. Job prayed to go to Hell. (Sheol) Lazarus was in hell (Sheol) from which Jesus resurrected him. Jesus himself was in Hell (Hades Acts 2:31) for 3 1/2 days and His Father (God resurrected him) Acts 2;24
The Three words translated as Hell are : #1Sheol (man kinds common Grave) #2Hades (Greek for death or grave) and #3 Gehenna represents The Second Death from which there is no resurrection. and is simply an absence of being not a conscience state.
2007-05-23 23:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I certainly do & I'm an American. As humans, we can never be perfect. We will always sin, regardless of whether we're saved or not. If you asked Jesus into your heart, repented of your sins then you're saved. You can't become unsaved. Jesus paid the price for your sin by being crucified on the cross. He didn't have to die, he didn't have to suffer, he could've stopped it, but he didn't. He did it so that believers who asked him into their hearts could be saved. Being saved means you will go to Heaven, you have nothing to fear if you were sincere.
I realize that you athiests & muslims are going to jump all over my comment, that is fine. I will, however, not falter in my beliefe. For the athiests, I have faith believing in a Lord I've never seen & that takes guts.
John 3:16 God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life
2007-05-23 22:46:39 · answer #4 · answered by Gypsydayne 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In China,
The % of Christians in the US has shrunk ( from the past).
Jesus is the only way to the Father:
Romans 10
Eph 2:8-9
Acts 2:21
When you accept Jesus you are saved by Jesus.
Your physical feelings may go way up, or way down(like a roller coaster).Jesus is still your Savior.
Do you know what Job went through?Read what he said:
Job 19
2007-05-23 23:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Like the first guy said... all you need is to believe in God!
And just because they BELIEVE they are going to Heaven, it does not mean they will. That is for God to decide, you need to be the best person you can be, and you should not worry about what others feel.
2007-05-23 22:47:57 · answer #6 · answered by j12 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes fear is normal in all of us, and yes you and I are going
to heaven some day after we die
And you do not have to do anything to make it there
just except Jesus as your Lord and Saviour
and believe Jesus died for you in your heart
2007-05-23 22:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fear of God is a good thing it turns you away from evil i have willingly done something i feel as wrong out of anger or lust or whatever but later regreted it. i find it helps when i stop focusing on what i shouldnt do and focus on what i should do and thats -Love
2007-05-23 23:04:35 · answer #8 · answered by mjdatruth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you fall short and so do I, that's why Jesus came, He does not fall short, God views us through Jesus, who did not fall short, your growth in Him is over a lifetime, when life ends the "ticket" in is Jesus
2007-05-23 23:38:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope, Fear of "God" is what keeps people turning to religion. Keeps little kids in and you grow up with that fear, and never turn back!
2007-05-23 22:41:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋