If heaven is the home of God, do you think that he has the right to choose who will or won't go there? Or do you feel that anyone has the right to go there, even if they will not give God the respect due him?
To put it into a different twist to this question...let's say for a minute that there are only two places to journey in the universe...you have the most fantastic home ever designed, and everyone wants to end up there, because the alternative is truly horrific. How would you feel if everyone (good and bad) who came to your door demanded to come in, even if they were not willing to respect you?
So, using that concept, do you think that God has the right to choose who will or won't spend time with him in eternity?
Or should he have no right to refuse anyone?
2007-10-05 13:19:56 · 19 answers · asked by Searcher 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God can do whatever He pleases, and its His right to chose how His plan works.
But in reality, God doesnt send anyone to hell. PPL make that choice for themelvs, as they wont hear , receeive, believe or oby Gods word, rebellious ppl of the spirit of the evil one. How can they be in heaven, they would only ruin heaven just like here on earth with all the murders, rapes, lying, stealing , adultry, all of it? God tells us what to do to be in Heaven, and to avoid Hell. It is not His fault if ppl ignore it, But when they do go to hell, they have absolutely noone but themselve to blame. cant even blame the devil As he doesnt force anyone either.
We have two choices, Jesus or the devil, If we dont choose for Jesus , the devil is the only other alternative, and we choose him by refusing Jesus.
God is a mighty GOD and an wesome GOd and He can and will do whatever it takes to protect His ppl.
God is just and fair. He doesnt make mistakes. but ppl sure do that wont chose for Him... amen great thought provoker thanks
2007-10-07 12:46:47 · answer #1 · answered by full gospel shirley 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If this is to happen ,I think that the pearly gates should be guarded at all times!
But let's be realist ! we are and live on earth and we live in a world that opens the doors to everyone that asks to come in .
We don't know if these are good or bad people that come in . Yet we give them a chance to integrate with the rest of society.
If they turn out to be not what our country expected due to their behaviour , we do have the right to expel them from our country . We need to protect our piece of heaven on earth.
Now going back to your question, God only will let the ones that deserve to go in his house ,there will be a selection of good and evil . This is something that no human is able to visualize unless their faith is strong enough to make them see things that are invisible and yet they do believe in.
I can only speak from a mere human point of view , I would not accept people that do not respect me or my home ,I would be glad when they leave and if they ever want to come back I would tell them not this time!.
2007-10-05 13:45:12 · answer #2 · answered by bornfree 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
George Bush Jr. will not allow anyone and everyone (friend and foe),to live on His ranch in Texas.
God is bigger and of more authority then GW.He offers everyone the chance to live with Him (not His will that anyone perish,but all come to repentance.
Read:
Eph 2:8-9
Matt 24-25
Rev 18-22
Job 19
1 & 2 Tim
Romans (10)
A person that Hears or reads the gospel and willingly (freewill) rejects salvation, has made a decision.
2007-10-07 13:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by robert p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Truth Is God is Holy.Lev 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Therefore, God can't let someone to enter heaven that is not holy as Himself! It is not a matter of respect, to me how can a Holy God let unholy people in His Kingdom?
On the other hand, not only have the right to refused anyone that is not holy, for the unholy himself will be out of place and be ashamed to join a Holy God! AMEN.
2007-10-07 14:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by Ephesians 2:8 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in a Christian home (church three times a week and the whole nine yards). I believed it until I was about 21-22 and started questioning the contradictions and other things. How was my life different? i hurt other people. I was against equal rights for same sex couples, to a point even for women or other races. I actively advocated for those beliefs. I preached to other people who didnt want to be preached to. I felt incredibly repressed and unable to express my own desires and wants. I felt guilty for having desires to do things that I had been taught were sinful. Sure, the love of a perfect god and eternal euphoria are both very comforting thoughts. But I found that I compromised my own beliefs for the religion, for that "perfect" god and eternal euphoria, and thats not cool.
2016-05-17 06:37:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that God has chosen some to be saved does not mean that He has chosen the rest to be lost. We are all precious to Him. (For God so loved the world ...) So the door is opened for all, but in a sense 'respect' as you put it, is the key.
The world is already lost and dead in sins. If left to ourselves, all of us would be condemned eternally. The question is, does God have a right to stoop down, take a handful of already doomed clay, and fashion a vessel of beauty out of it? Of course he does. C. R. Erdman put it right in perspective when he said, God's sovereignty is never exercised in condemning men who ought to be saved, but in rather it has resulted in the salvation of men who ought to be lost.
2007-10-05 13:48:34 · answer #6 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lI tend to look on Heaven as a "state" like say a" state of distraction " or "state of well being".. as a mind-set affair.
Like say seven days in Genesis.. What is a day in our terms
which we measure in physical terms only ; that being the 24 hour rotation of earth... what rotation "time" determines the emerging Earth? Likewise, what physical dimension are one of The Many Mansions our Lord speaks of as awaiting us in heaven.. Are they to be peopled by ressurected body-soul people.. what demension will a resurrected be or live in? Did not the resurrected Jesus move thru walls on penticost,, A beatific state of happiness it's callled ..and the rejection of God is just seems a forfeiture of your happy reconciled mind set...
Just thinking.. no divinity schooling; just living in hope ..Anyway, I don't expect hard pavements!
2007-10-05 13:50:41 · answer #7 · answered by boofuswoolie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were a deity and people didn't respect or agree with my opinions I wouldn't condemn them to eternal damnation. What difference is there between the Christian God's chosen people and Hitler's Arian race. Only people who are worthy get to survive?
2007-10-05 13:26:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah,
The fact that God created us un-perfect, so He must know that evrybody will going to have a sin..
Maybe everyone should entitle to live in so called HEAVEN, after all its not our fault to be not perfect. If only God created us perfectly, He shouldnt be pointing who will or who will not welcome in heaven..If eveybody is for everybody, or everything is for everybody, and He treats us fairly right?
so, what makes heaven differ from it?
He shouldnt refuse or reject anyone.. He shouldnt be deciding whos who are just welcome in heaven. He shuld be preparing everyone in HIS place, afterall, all of us, are from HIM.
2007-10-05 13:35:27 · answer #9 · answered by Bonitababe06 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God Loves Everyone!!!!! Good and Bad.....siners and saints!!! So as long as they ( the persons in question ) have accepted him and his teachings!!! For your question....God knows who will spend eternity with him before we do!!!! He gives us the choice to follow him and live for all eternity in Heaven or to not follow him and spend eternity in hell!!
2007-10-05 13:30:36 · answer #10 · answered by They Love to Hate me 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋