how lame can that be
2007-12-17 13:18:36 · 18 answers · asked by Kelsey 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God loves those that love Him:
"We ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing. Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.
All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you. "
II Thessalonians 1:3-10
2007-12-17 13:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading the word and see what it says before saying Gods word is lame.
Isaiah 65:17: Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Isaiah 66:22: As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me.
Revelation 21:1: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
2 Corinthians 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Isaiah 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2007-12-19 22:01:06 · answer #2 · answered by Gone Fishing 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have been a Christian for over 20 years. I have seen a lot of questions like yours that ask, "Well, if God loves all of us as Christians say, then why would He put anyone in Hell?" And you have a point! The typical Christian bullcrap is that God loves everyone, when He does not love everyone. It's so easy to prove in the Bible, but the pastors of these Christians are teaching other Christians to be idiots and Biblically ignorant.
( I'm pretty moody right now, so perfect timing on the question )
God
does
not
love
everyone!
He does not want every one. And anyone saying that He does want everyone should be asked if they are Christian, how could love send someone to Hell for eternity, YET ALSO why does the Bible call them a LIAR?
Why are CHRISTIANS LYING ABOUT THE BIBLE?! EVERYDAY! EVERYDAY THEY LIE TO EVERYBODY WITH THE CRAP THAT GOD LOVES EVERYONE, WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE DOES NOT LOVE EVERYBODY?
I hope they see that, sorry for the caps.
2007-12-17 21:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did not say He would end the planet. He said it would endure. He DID say He would cleanse the planet of the wicked people and conditions ON it.
Plainly He said the meek would inherit the earth and would find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. (Ps. 37:9-11) Obviously, they are not now enjoying it.
Also those who have died before this who were faithful to God and those who never had a chance to choose one way or another would be resurrected to this earthly life. (Acts 24:15) One of the best points is that they will never have to grow old and die again nor get sick. (Rev. 21:4)
Not lame at all. You haven't heard this before? Who have you been listening to?
2007-12-17 21:31:47 · answer #4 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not the one causing the world to end - it is us! We are the ones destroying the world with our pollution, wars and weapons of destruction. The world coming to an end is the final result of the cancerous and rapidly growing spread of sin into a once perfect world. The day man chose to disobey God and allowed sin to come into their lives, the countdown for planet was started....
If you read your Bible carefully, you will find in Genesis that God warned Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil because the day they ate of that fruit , they will surely die. When Eve caused Adam to eat of the fruit, spiritual death (separation from God) had come to man that very instant. By right, physical death should also have come at that instant, but God, in His great love for man, postponed and delayed the physical death for man in order that He could work out His plan of redemption to bring man back into relationship and reconcilation with Him.
This imperfect world will end once God's Redemption plan is completed but the promise of God is that those who are willing to accept His plan of salvation and reconciliation, they will have eternal life and they will be given a new world, a better and perfect world, to live in.
There's nothing lame about all this - the question is not about God's love but man's pride and disobedience. The one who pushes the destruct button is "us" - it is our own doing, our own choice......
2007-12-17 21:44:28 · answer #5 · answered by Seng Kim T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is always a beginning and an end. think about it, some day our world will be so incredibly high tech that everyone will forget about God, so what would the point of being alive if you don't know God? Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again. When Christ does come again, the world will come to an end. in some bible verse, it says that there will be earthquakes, plagues, and wars before Jesus comes again.
2007-12-17 21:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by .. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This world and everything in it is under a curse from Adam and Eve's sin. We will some day have a new heaven and new earth. All things passed away all things new. In the new world there will be no sun, no ocean. We will be supernatural in existence. We will have bodies that never die. We can go from planet to planet I believe. We can't even imagine what God has planned for us he said. There will never be temptation again because Satan will be bound. Life will really be worth living and exciting and adventuresome I believe. We will have anything we want according to God's will. It will be worth it all. Anything we have to go through here will not compare to the glory we will have there.
I love and adore you Trinity. And above all I BELIEVE
2007-12-17 21:26:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because sin is in the world .God will take those who will accept his free gift of salvation to heaven , those who deny him to eternal torment and suffering in hell . Then destroy the universe with fire to cleanse it from sin and make a new earth and universe perfect and eternal sinless for the believers to live in .2 Peter 3:10-12
2007-12-17 21:25:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything ends as something else starts up. It's okay. It's the way the universe was created: breaths, heart beats, flowers, tides, seasons, stars, everything. It's all ebb and flow.
2007-12-17 21:28:32 · answer #9 · answered by Porch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wll not end the world forever. He will destroy all evil forever. He will end this evil system of things, and create a new one. Opposite of lame! It gives us something to look forward to!
2007-12-17 21:24:44 · answer #10 · answered by OverTheRainbow 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋