If all of you prayed tonight that God allowed everyone into Heaven, do you think He would do it, or would He just say no? He is all-loving, right? If you can love a sinner enough to allow them to sleep in your house (yourself, your wife, your husband, your children, family, friends, etc) shouldn't God be MORE loving, and allow sinners into His place of dwelling?
After all, if you, who are evil, know how to love and live with sinners, how much more able is your Father?
2007-11-19 08:52:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thunderoad... didn't God establish a standard before Jesus... didn't he change his mind about that standard? Why not now?
2007-11-19 09:01:18 · update #1
According to some of the people answering this question god is not all powerful. If is is unable to do this then he is not all powerful, however if he is unwilling he is obviously not all loving. This god is one big contradiction!!
And Bonnie W, who is god praying to? Is there some other sky fairy that answers god's prayers?
2007-11-19 10:20:32 · answer #1 · answered by taristidou 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, God Has set a Standard and it cant be Broken by Him, We pray for are Loved ones Everynight and Yet they are Still with out Christ and are hope Is that someday they will come to the saving Knowledge of Jesus Christ , How can a Holy God Allow Sin into a Holy Place , There is only One Way and it is through the Blood Of Jesus Christ
2007-11-19 16:59:25 · answer #2 · answered by Thunderoadvtx1300 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First off God is Praying for all people to freely accept him; That means his prayer is that you would come to the saving knowledge of Christ. Second we can pray night and day for everyone on the planet. But you have a mind; your not a robot. So you have to freely accept him. Third he will not break his rules if your not accepting the price he paid on the cross. Well at the Throne of God you will get a chance to voice you opinion!! (smile) your still loved by God.
2007-11-19 17:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by bonnie w 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
All of that is contradictory.
God speaks of Himself as "light" and those who wish to continue in their sins as children of "darkeness". The two cannot exist together.
God has given us the message that a person must be reborn into Christ in order to become His child and be with Him forever.
John 3:17-21
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
(from New International Version)
2007-11-19 17:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because that ruins the whole point of us coming down here at earth. Were here to show that we can make the right choices and follow god, even if we are tempted to do the wrong thing.
2007-11-19 16:58:43 · answer #5 · answered by ~*Felicity*~ 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Interesting idea. When we pray we are bound to pray in accordance with the mind and will of God.
1 Timothy 2:3-5 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
1I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
No one can get into heaven unless they have been saved. We then are to pray that all are saved.
God is God with unquestionable prerogative. Actually God has done better than letting all and sundry into heaven. It has already been thought through. Those who will be in heaven will be redeemed, purified, and justified.
No one will be in heaven on their own merit. For those who lived before Jesus the Christ it will be those who looked forward to God's salvation, and for those after it will be for those who accepted his salvation.
Each will be judged in accordance with the revelation they were given.
We tend to see things in a linear fashion. God does not have that limitation.
If you seperate God from Holiness. You are left with the most nasty, evil, and vicious character you can imagine, demanding deaths of thousands, flooding the earth, throwing souls into eternal torment, and a whole catalogue of wrongs
God cannot be separated from Holiness. Our problem is that we understand holiness less than we understand God. God's love, is a holy love, not as our love as it is able to love the unlovable. It is without measure
What also is without measure is God's mercy and God's anger
Confused? You should be because it is perplexing. The best we can say is that God hates the sin, but loves the sinner.
Holiness demands death by obliteration, a complete haulocast. A giving up of everything, a holding back of nothing.
Now God has already kept his part of that bargain. I repeat God has given his everything God has held nothing back. Yes you've probably heard it before, but it is worth repeating.
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only (or only begotten) Son
It is only fair that we keep our part of the bargain, to love him as much in return
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal
life.
For us it can all start with a simple confession, 'God be mericful to me a sinner'. God can be merciful because of what Christ has done in his atoning sacrifice on the cross.
Without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sin.
1 Peter 1:18-20 (New International Version - UK)
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.
By the same token, as God has made a way of escape from his wrath, is God to be held to account if we ignore it and allow his wrath to overtake us?
Finally, God has set out the way. If you are to acknowledge God as God then you have to accept his way, and as good as our way may seem, they are not his way and therefore of no value.
2007-11-19 18:52:15 · answer #6 · answered by d00ney 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God will not change he's standards. He is Holy, righteous, and innocent. He won't accept sin. As for the main question: I believe it's being done...
2007-11-19 17:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas A 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For by Grace are ye saved through Faith , and that not of yourselves , it is the gift of God , not of works lest any man boast
2007-11-19 17:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit , after the tradition of man , and not after Christ
2007-11-19 18:44:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The sin problem has to be dealt with................God wills for everyoen to go to heaven.
Take the pardon Jesus offers and you can go................what we need to do is pray for people to realize this and pray to God...........we need to pray for people to work in the kingdom and for revival to come........
2007-11-19 16:58:51 · answer #10 · answered by fanofchan 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋