Jesus said, "Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” John 8:24
Is this really love to not tell our family and friends the truth? If you do not tell them the truth you are basically watching them die.
28 So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[a] or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first. Matthew 19:28-30
2007-06-30 14:13:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Sadly I DO KNOW!
My Mother Died October 11, 2004! She was diagnosed with Alzhiemers 2 years before! She was pretty much with it though!
She had her birthday October 3, 2004 she was 89, she was born in 1915 in Qunlyn, Texas (Hunt County)! She had a fall at her home October 8, she was semi-comitose and fell into a full coma - none reactive to heat/cold/pain -ect. There were 9 people in her room when she SAT UP in the Hospice in Arizona! Her eyes where Wide Open! She screemed out: "OH MY - NO YOU CAN'T BE GOD - NO - NOT ME!" and, fell back DEAD!
I got there AS FAST AS I COULD - Flying from the East Coast where we Live - Unfortunately!
Everyone that was in her room asked me - "What was all that about?" It gave my husband and I a chance to witness to them about the Lord! Seven of them DID come to the Lord and accepted Jesus in their Hearts because of what they 'SAW!' They told me that out of everything they had experience in their medical careers - they had "NEVER SEEN SUCH TERROR IN A PATIENTS EYES BEFORE LIKE 'THAT'"!
I had given her a Bible that I bought in London for her wedding gift - I had it 'Sealed up Again' after I wrote my message to her in it! She Had opened the Box - but did NOT open the 'Seal' to the Bible!
I talked with her Everyday - Every time I would try to talk to her about the Lord - she would find 'some' excuse to hang UP!
She ran a business in California that was in the 'gray' area of being legal! She had swindled a LOT OF PEOPLE out of MAJOR MONEY when she was in business! She left California for Arizona when the FBI started talking to her!
Nothing ever came out of that - Leagally! My mother was also one of the FIRST people in the State of California that was 'Busted' and searved ONE year in PRISON for Drugs in 1978 when the National Drug Act came OUT!
My Mother DID NOT KNOW the Lord! She had NOT been faithfull to my Father! She had an afair of Several Years with her last husband! She Was faithful to him - once they got married - that's when I gave the Bible!
The Lord has given me Peace on this matter. I Prayed Every Night for Her Soul and the Souls of Everyone in my life! The Lord - has answered my Prayers with Many of them - Not All! It is up to THEM - not me. It is also up to Jesus!
Peace and Grace to YOU!
Take Care and God Bless!
2007-06-30 14:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus died that we might have life and have it more abundantly. His life is eternal life; for He was the word which created all things to begin with.
Most people that believe in life after death, including many Christians, think they are eternal to start with. They believe they are already going to live forever somewhere????
Why then did God bring eternal life as a gift; if one already lives forever? Here is the point where a second death is presented by false teachers as a passage into an eternal damnation on one hand or an eternal sound on the other. This teaching makes God a fiend first and a liar second. Those who believe it and teach it are children of their father the devil; as God has well said.
Eternal life is the literal life of God and not a matter of location
God said that the soul that sins shall die. You do not have a soul, you are a soul. If a sinner, every facet of who you are will be erased by death; both first and second, once God has withdrawn his antimating spirit; and you are found without the Holy Spirit which is the eternal life of Christ.
There will come a time when God's spirit will come upon all who have died for a final judgment. At that time all will be judged according to their words and deeds based on the light (the revelation of Christ) they actually had at the time they were living.
Christ poured out his life, which is eternal, as a gift to those who believe and receive. Those who do not have it are already dead in tresspasses and sins. If they do not believe they will not inherit eternal life. Without eternal life one cannot live eternally, even in hell.
Hell cannot hold the life of Christ. Hell was not prepared for man but for the devil and his angels. Those spirits which existed and were in rebellion before time began face an open fire.
Some will point to other Scripture and think what I have said cannot be. Those people need to understand that the nature and the content of both heaven and hell changed drastically with Christ's victory over death, hell and the grave.
The only eternal life that exists, or has ever existed, is God's life. Anything that was created had a beginning and will have an end. There is a difference between what is forever and what is eternal.
The above three things, along with prophetic revelation, must be applied to all Scripture in order to understand; especially in relation to judgment and what God says about life after death as we know it.
The Pharisees in Jesus day expected to live forever. We follow Moses and our fathers ate mana (ate wafers of eternal life) in the wilderness they boasted to Jesus. Jesus corrected them saying "yes and they are all dead." (That is to say, dead, no longer living, not eternal in the heavens, nada, etc.)
Then they wanted to kill Jesus for that was the same as saying they did not represent the true church. The only ones that had eternal life were Joshua and Caleb and many of the new generation; which had never seen Egypt and believed the report of the spies.
2007-06-30 16:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are what turns people away from God,stop it. Hell means the grave which God's Word describes as a place of silence. There is no such thing as a literal burning hell. That concept is a babylonian teaching,or molach teaching where people would make there children pass through the fire,you can read about it in Jerimiah. Read Colossians chapter 1 verse 20 while your at it. All means all,and all things in heaven and earth will be reconciled to God.
2007-06-30 14:41:32 · answer #3 · answered by dispesational7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to say that I am always amazed by the numbers of Christians that don't know what Christ and the bible are about. It makes me wonder if they have ever read any of it.
We are called in God's time, when He calls us not until. 1 Thes. 5:24 That's why so many current unbelievers are so vehemently anti-christian and why so many fundamentally minded are so confused; they hear what other people tell them but they have no real first hand knowledge or understanding.
2007-06-30 15:24:27 · answer #4 · answered by tcm 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has given us everything we need to return to Him. If someone knowingly dies in their sins...they made a choice... and will be judged accordingly.
God has also guaranteed that everyone will have the opportunity to accept or reject Jesus...and come home.
It is not my job to judge another eternity. It is Gods. It is not my job to take away someones free agency...that is Gods gift to all.
Will I be sad to see some not take advantage of the Atonement? Yes...very. But it is THEIR CHOICE. All I can do is be an example to them of Christ love...so that one day they will know Him because of me and learn to trust Him. And when they trust Him...then it is my hope and prayer that they accept the Atonement into their lives.
IOW Choose you this day whom ye shall serve, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
2007-06-30 14:22:48 · answer #5 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do yo mean Hell, Michagan? Oh right the so-called place of fire and brimstone. Ah sorry I do not believe in such a place. If you do that's fine but not me.
2007-06-30 14:18:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say those who say they are Christian but don't walk the talk will go to hell before any others. Don't you know the scriptures? Faith without works is dead. And those who disobey are full of dead bones.
2007-06-30 14:18:26 · answer #7 · answered by Dntcrosthline 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need to worry about your own family. Get off the computer and go spend some quality time with them and stop trying to scare people to death.
2007-06-30 14:18:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with you, next to going to hell(which I won't because I am saved....March 10, 1974), my greatest fear is having Friends and family turn to me after being condemned to Hell and say.."Why didn't you tell me???". Thanks for the question and have a great day!
2007-06-30 14:20:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Non christians! Do YOU realize that family and friends who say they know Jesus will be exposed for the BIG FAT LIARS they are when they die?
2007-06-30 14:18:46 · answer #10 · answered by NONAME 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋