if jesus wanted to save everyone...why are people still goin to hell....isnt jesus' salvation greater than anything...if he wanted to...it is undeniable...isnt it? then why... peple goin to hell?
2007-06-04 18:03:52 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because Christianity is a man-made religion that needed followers so some creative people decided to come up with "Eternal Salvation" or "Eternal Damnation" to scare people into converting.
2007-06-04 18:07:30 · answer #1 · answered by talkwithflowers 2 · 2⤊ 10⤋
Bravo! good question.
See, we are born witch choices, as that is something that God will never take away: our free will.
However, God is not some weak hearted punk.
Yes, he loves everyone and does not wish for people to perish, but look at it this way. He sent his ONLY Son, Jesus, down to earth to bear YOURS and MY sins for 32 years. He (Jesus) suffered gruesome, gut-wrenching pain on the cross, just for you and me.
Dont think for one second that God would not allow people to go to hell. IT HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE DAY.
There comes a point of no return, where God Himself turns you to a "reprobate" mind and hands you over to the devil.
My advice is to accept Jesus long before that happens.
ALSO do not compare yourself to other people who are sinning because God is a personal God, He knows where everyone is at. While He may let someone "get away" with something, he may severly punish someone else.
I pray that everyone would realize this, because it would end the wishy-washy christianity that several people today love to practice.
The bible says that you cannot serve two masters, therefore if you are NOT ACTIVELY SERVING JESUS, then you are serving the devil, there is no middle ground, there is no in-between.
This earth and all of its "pleasures" will pass away, and the only thing that will matter is if you go and spend eternity in the blissful, loving prescence of the ONE, TRUE God, or you spend an eternity in the lakes of fire, mocked by the very devil who decieved you into thinking that heaven and hell were fake and Christianity was not real.
I pray that you will have an encounter with the loving, tender Jesus and not be turned away on that fateful day in front of His white throne, where sadly, it will be too late.
2007-06-04 18:11:39 · answer #2 · answered by §treet §killz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God's will is for us to benefit and to p.c. for ourselves. the two God the father, and Christ are actually not magicians. they are able to't make human beings be who they are actually not. If some one has chosen to no longer different than the blessing that are offered they gained't tension him to realize this. Forcing some one is the way of the adversary (devil). He has no determination, nor a physique of flesh like ours. he's offended simply by fact he will by no potential posses one or comprehend the joys of a mortal life and a wager to be resurrected. So captivity with out determination is devil's plan.... no longer God's
2017-01-10 13:47:05 · answer #3 · answered by wileen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9, NASB 95)
It appears that it is more important to God that we have free will and that our lives have meaning and consequence rather than creating us as automatons in a world without meaning and consequence.
Jesus' salvation is greater than anything, but God is not willing to force it upon anyone. Though it is hard to understand, this gives our actions and choices a dignity and a reality that does not exist in a meaningless and existential universe. Our choices really do have consequences.
2007-06-04 18:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by Scott 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've answered your own question, if you think about it. Alot of people just can't get their minds around the fact that Jesus obviously doesn't want to save everybody. It's as funny as those who claim (and wrongly so) that God loves everyone in the whole world. There is absolutely no evidence for this anywhere, but people keep wanting to delude themselves with such bilge. They act as if it's impossible for God to NOT love someone. As I posted in an earlier question-"Jacob have I loved; Esau have I HATED. Look it up. It's true.
2007-06-04 18:16:21 · answer #5 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus wants that all should not perish, but have everlasting life with Him in Heaven. God/Jesus will not interfere with man's free will and some refuse to accept Him or to have anything to do with Him. So, they choose separation in this life and that's is what they get in the life to come. Their choice, their refusal of the free gift He offers to save them. God bless
2007-06-04 18:20:57 · answer #6 · answered by connie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Jesus did on the Cross PROVIDED SALVATION for EVERYBODY.
To Answer your Question:
FreeWill.
Jesus will not Recreate your spirit (Saved, Born-Again) against your Will.
Jesus has to have your Permission to Recreate your spirit.
You have to Believe (to be Accurate, Mentally Agree) in Jesus to give HIM Permission to do this thing (save you).
2007-06-04 18:13:13 · answer #7 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus wants to save everyone. The problem is that not everyone wants to be saved. Because to be saved means
to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior and to do that one has to surrender SELF and alot of people do not want to do that.
You cannot straddle the fence when it comes to Jesus but
some people try and those people are called hypocrites.
2007-06-04 18:09:39 · answer #8 · answered by ansearcher@sbcglobal.net 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Your answer to the question is in your post.
Jesus WANTS to save everyone.
But we have freewill.
We are not robots.
We have a choice.
Jesus WANTS us to choose Him, but He will NOT
take choice away from us.
We have to CHOOSE Him.
Hell is a choice.
Heaven is a choice.
Some have, do, & will choose Hell.
Jesus is too much an honorable gentlemen to force Himself on anyone and deny them their choice.
2007-06-04 18:15:25 · answer #9 · answered by faith 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because God gives us the opportunity to make our own choices. He will not force himself on anyone. There are those who choose not to live for him. It's there choice. If they choose Hell of Jesus, he lets them.
2007-06-04 18:15:50 · answer #10 · answered by S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have got to want to accept what Jesus has done for them. We have to choose to live for Him.
Jesus opened the door all we have to do is walk through it.
2007-06-04 18:10:07 · answer #11 · answered by zoril 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋