I get asked often, if God loves me, why would he send me (anyone) to hell. Well, he won’t, hell is our choice, and this often comes from a misunderstanding of Gods mercy.
God is a person with a gun pointed at your head. “Hell” is them pulling the trigger. “Salvation” is them not. As the hostage, you either “love and worship” the person with the gun for all eternity, with blind obedience, and live, or you’ve “forced” them to kill you. That’s the choice the religious has postulated. Does it sound like a free choice?
I just discovered your channel from your prayer video, I have a lot of misconceptions about God I subconsciously hold. I can say all day that I believe he's a loving God, but I struggle to believe it sometimes. Hearing what you have to say on your channel has made me burst into tears multiple times. Thank you, and God bless you
Man you have been such a light into my own life and your videos have consistently struck a chord within my heart every time that I have watched them. I have learned some great bits of knowledge and wisdom from your videos that help me to understand God's Character more clearly along with words to say to others that may bring comfort. Thank you for spreading the Love of Christ and His message and I pray that all who listen to your videos may be driven to grow closer to our Lord Jesus. God Bless You!!!
God wills that: "all are saved and come to the knowledge of the truth..." 1 Tim 2:4. He sends no one to hell. Hell is poplated by volenteers who opt for their eternal destination by virture of their own choice to say NO to God's boundless mercy. May the grace of final penetence follow us to the very end. Amen.
The “all” in that verse means all kinds and, like most epistles, Paul is talking about Jews and Gentiles. Pas is used later in the epistle for money is the root of all kinds of evil.
@@timkeslar3615 Thanks Tim 💐. God creates no one destined for damnation from birth and provide ALL sufficient grace to attain salvation but has divine foreknowledge of those who will not avail themselves of the grace of final penitence ❤️🥂🎊⭐️
This video came at the right time for me... Yet, there´s a few dangers here and I´m having trouble balancing them out: the first is having mercy become a license for relativism. "Everything you do is OK because God will have your back" kind of attitude. The other danger is being so forgiving of oneself that you mistake your own permissivity with God´s mercy. This can practically become an abolition of the pursuit of holiness. Treading the path between these excesses is the narrow way indeed... Hard to do. Hope yall succeed brothers and sisters. Please pray for me, God bless!
Great point and very true, we must never take Gods mercy for granted. The two things I believe God looks for in us is we must be truly sorry (a humble and contrite heart), and a firm resolve to turn away from our sin. Thanks for the comment.
That implies that we have the agency over our decisions to avoid doing wrong. It’s a perspective that conveniently ignores the effects of one’s personal experiences, genetics, culture, etc on their own decision making. It implies that all action comes from a place of knowing and understanding and that every human knows when they’re doing wrong. The path to hell is paved with good intentions, but how does an average person separate good intentions from absolute good? How does one achieve a level of consciousness that could bring about awareness of the effects our actions have on others? Hell to me is like the boogie man. A tale told to keep us in line. A truly loving and altruistic god wouldn’t need to threaten us with an eternity of torture. Hell doesn’t exist on some separate plane. It is here. We create it.
@@kyleh6173 God doesn’t send people to hell you choose it if you choose to be a good person throughout your life and we’re never brought up Christian/Catholic and only had the intention of loving people you would go to heaven because God wants to be with us but sometimes through our actions through sin especially mortal sin we say “no I don’t want to be with you God” so the alternative is Hell
@@kyleh6173 Hell is the absence of God (All good), I wouldn’t say to keep us in line rather an alternative to God because you and me and others actively reject him and he won’t force himself onto you, just place you in the absence of him.
Here's who God will have mercy on: "God has committed all to disobedience that he might have mercy on all ... From him and through him and to him are all things." (Romans 11:32,36)
@@ncrwadr that is right! and since He is Righteousness, He doesn't do that! Why would He keep dead people alive when His word says you either PERISH (cease to exist) or have eternal life. this erroneous teaching of His burning people in hell for all eternity, has been the biggest detriment to people believing in Him.
@@carolbowen1693 That sounds like what I learned when I was basically but not quite a Seventh Day Adventist (not thinking that you are necessarily). But the reality is even better than that, in that all will come full circle in the end (of the ages) and be redeemed. I may've already mentioned this in another comment thread with you in it but there's a great book on the subject called Raising Hell by Julie Ferwerda for free in pdf.
This video really blessed me, as I have been tormented all my life by the idea that I will spend an eternity in hell. Your voice exudes compassion and mercy I really felt like Jesus was speaking. Please keep making these vids! God bless 🙏🏾
there are 4 words translated as "hell" in the Bible, 2 in the O.T and 2 in the new. In the O.T the words are "Ghenna" and Sheol. Ghenna was a place outside JerUSAlem where they would burn their refuse and occasionally the body of a dead criminal who had no one to see to his remains. Sheol means the grave/place of darkness. In the N,T the words are Hades which is also a place of the dead/grave and the last is Tartaroos meaning a place of restraint where satan is. there is no fire in the grave, only in the lake of fire at the end which is reserved for satan and his demons but if you chose to go, you go.
@@carolbowen1693People will stay in hell until the end of time, where after that they will stay another 1000 years, and then they will be thrown into the lake of fire, leaving existence, and yes, the lake of fire is a A place other than hell, there are some parts of the apocalypse that make this clear.
-./*1) If God wasn`t forced to created? 2) And God know beforehand he created he will create something he doesn`t want (sin) and due to his will of creating that most mankind will be doomed to eternal suffering in hell? 3) And If God don`t want that people to be in eternal pain. 4) This God won`t create something in the first place...
As I slowly reintroduce myself to religion and ask myself why I left and if it was and is a choice I'm happy with I find that these videos are very helpful in answering some of my questions I have regarding religion and faith. I am unsure as to if or how long I will continue my journey into religion but with great videos like yours and a world of resources to use I am currently very excited about it.
@@carolbowen1693 /*1) If God wasn`t forced to created? 2) And God know beforehand he created he will create something he doesn`t want (sin) and due to his will of creating that most mankind will be doomed to eternal suffering in hell? 3) And If God don`t want that people to be in eternal pain. 4) This God won`t create something in the first place... q
@@a.39886 do you have children? did you want a family? do your children obey the rules of your house? do they break them? did you ever break your father's rules? did he punish you? did he force you to break his rules or did you exercise your free will and suffer the consequences of your choices?
@@a.39886 He does not burn people in "hell" forever. hell is the grave as I explained above. there is no fire in the grave-the lake of fire at the end is reserved for satan and his demons but if you want to go, you'll go.
Here are my thoughts; is hell a merciful decision to create? God is merciful, yes, under the premise of the pre-existing conditions that he has created. I can also be called a merciful man for not beating my cat to death, if it was something actually considerable to me. So my question is, is sending a temporal being into an ocean of infinite pain for all eternity a merciful thing, no matter the conditions? Even if the being begs to be thrown in there I question whether it would be a merciful thing to agree and let it happen. Note that I am a devout Christian now becoming Catholic, and despite all of my incredible experiences with God these thoughts still linger at the back of my head.
Amen man, and welcome aboard. There is much debate on this as Im sure you are aware. The way I look at it is like the child who rejects his mother. The mother has her arms open wide to the child no matter what he has done, but the child continues to reject her. If he dies, he dies in a state of separation from his mother. She is devastated. And as much as it kills her, she holds his freedom.
Im a recent Catholic convert myself and I often have the same type of questions. Here´s what helped me so far: Thomas Aquinas and many other doctors of the Church would define evil, not as something positive, but as something negative, the lack of something. In this light, we can´t say God "created" hell. Hell is the result of rejecting the good things that are from God. Also, hell may be thought of as a place of suffering, but Tradition also understands it as a state of the soul. The catechism itself uses this language. This makes a lot more sense to me. You are not "sent" somewhere. That place is within you. If a man feels that his wife is "distant" though they live under the same roof, it doesn´t mean that she is literally at a greater geographical distance from him. This distance is a spiritual distance, it´s all in the heart. God is like a universal tuning fork and we are like strings that need to be tuned into that frequency - except instead of sound, the frequency is love and forgiveness. When we arrive on the other side, we may be out of tune. If we don´t care about tuning ourselves to God and we just want to go our way and play our own song, that´s hell. It´s a state of our souls, which is not the result just of what we do, but of the decision to reject God in our hearts. The last thing I´d like to say, and which really made me click, is this: God created us out of love, and He wants us to love Him back and be united with him. Now, love can only be voluntary. You can´t force someone to love. That´s implied in the very nature of love. Love is only truly love as long as it´s freely given. This is why freedom is the whole reason why we were created. If the whole point is love, the whole point is freedom. If we don´t have freedom to reject God, we don´t have freedom to love Him either. Which makes hell a necessary consequence of the whole equation. What I´m struggling with right now is understanding what it means for the suffering to be "eternal". It can´t mean "every day forever", since time as we perceive it now will probably be perceived differently when we´re dead or resurrected. It might be some sort of endless present moment, a changeless state. I´m still searching for clues regarding this. Hopefully something I said was helpful, cheers and God bless you my friend.
In loving relationship, the relationship cant work through force. God loves us enough to let us make our own choices and gives us an option to be with him. We have to make that choice God... or not. Love is something that is freely given by free will. With out free will we cant love, we would be just robots. God lets us learn to love who he is or hate him... and if you hate him then you love evil as the bible says. People who love evil can dwell in evil forever AKA, Hell.
If you believe you can lose your salvation, you're counting on your own righteousness and are not saved. Salvation is eternal, it can not be lost, God promises this. You must trust in Christ ALONE for salvation. God cannot lie.
So lets say - Someone is Christian, they believe in God and professed their faith. One day, they commit the most atrocious, vile act ever done on Earth. Unrepentant, and they lost all their faith. Are they saved? Think about it. They are like seeds scattered on thin soil. They may take those words and let them take root, but the roots cannot penetrate deep into the soil, and as a result, they are swept away, and die. This is a part of the Parable of the Sower.
@badalybumdadum parables are meant to confuse the unsaved. Your rejection of the gospel, as well as your misunderstanding of the parable witness one to the other. I could elaborate the parable, but without the belief of the gospel, you don't have the Holy Spirit, and therefore won't believe it even so.
@@cjames9320 What are you talking about?? Parables are meant to enlighten them. He uses parables so that those that want to understand can understand. These are his teachings, not some ploy to confuse others??
i feel like i forgive too easily, like i wish i could hold a grudge but i just cant. Like i keep forgiving the same person and they keep hurting me but i just cant stop forgiving them because i value our relationship so much
I understand I was that same, your forgiveness is a brilliant thing! But at the same time you must also value yourself and to know your true worth, I don't know who this person is or what they may have done to you but best thing, the absolute best thing you can do is forgive them once more and then just walk away, separate yourself from them, that is the only way forward any other way would just lead to destruction, whether it be yours, theirs or both.
Hi thank you for these videos, i am getting more and clear information, please don't stop your videos with amazing voice and clearer understing and giving more hope, makes us to believe more upon the almighty
Some of the comments already say it, but your videos are truly a work of art and a light to us all. Keep up the amazing work and sharing how amazing our Father is. Thank you so much, I am truly grateful to have found you. God bless you🤍
How many people had pain while they been in faith? All of them. Pain itself sounds demonic to me. I'm doubting the bible and the concept, because the more I see it, the more consequences comes across. How do you believe it's forgiven if you have negative experiences through life?
@@svix01 We all have negative experiences through life, even if you’re religious or not, you have faith that God isn’t real, and we have faith that God is real
@@yeethan1094 Ok, you have proof God is a good person that has proven himself to help people in the Bible if they trust him, and hasn’t failed, now, use that argument with air pilots, you’ve seen they can fail, but you still place your trust in them cause you know they can still succeed
i mean. just because satan suddenly fucks off doesn't automatically mean hell will cease to exist? im not completely sure, i need to read the bible more i mean there would still be demons who'd do whatever they want, no? who knows, maybe some other fodder demon will take up the position. i dont know
I'm so upset that God never guides me, says in his word to throw away our anxiety. desires, fears, everything, and is never present, never listens. I don't ask for anything material, even in the worst situations, always guidance, and that's for me to follow his will, nor is it literally something for me to use, and he never passes, I don't feel anything other than him having turned his back on me and not the opposite, and even feeling and living all of this, I try to continue following the word, but in law, of loving God, it is broken in my heart, because all I have is upset, discomfort and disgust for believing in this and never seeing the contrary, because that was the reality of my entire life
The christian god does not exist so you can have an easy life on earth. Many Christians in the bible are executed for their beliefs, by stoning, by burning, by cross. You can either choose to accept this fact and continue to believe like Job, or give up.
We don't always know what God would want from us specifically, but even when we feel lost, that's why we have his word, to guide us, that's why it's called a light. God is there, everything points to him existing, and the evidence for Christ's reliability is outstanding. It gets really hard sometimes, but use that doubt to research and study further, and build that faith that you know you have for God. Others will tell you that he doesn't exist, so just don't worry about it, yet they have no true meaning, nothing matters in the end in their view, it's merely ignorance and pride in stuff they know very little about, I warn you to keep away from falling into those pits. it's hard to follow and hear God sometimes, but when we're lost, we come together and study the words he left us.
Man you are so underrated, but this is how the world functions. We are not from it, so it hates us. We are sanctioned by the world we live in because we are not from it. God said that it would happen but also that we should take heart and stand firm. Keep advancing the Kingdom of God!
Thank you friend. I wish I could upload more frequently but I have to do other work to pay for this. Hopefully one day the subs come, ha! Pray for me. 🙏
I have never seen someone, say the line "you send yourself to hell" without ever even uttering the word. in a way, breaking down what that truly means.
So, eternal torture, torment and inconmensurable pain are mercy? Because hell its just not “bein away from god” its all theese things, that is what is written there in the bible, just for not believing ? What if you are a good person and just dont want to believe because you súffered from this religion What if you dont believe because this religion says nonsense like “hey dont get a tattoo” or “ hey dont be gay just because i say so, do it or youll go to hell “ Really? Thats your concept of love? Of mercy? Punishing someone so unproportionally, so unfairly just for small stuff like that? Do people really deserve eternal pain just for not following that kind of Rueles? “Be with me or against me’ thats the Message right here, and thats not love, thats ruthlesness.
Small stuff like not beliving in the creator of the universe? God is willing to forgive anyone who Asks to be, but if you dont belive, you will never ask
@@ProfessorPrelHow could I believe in him when he choses to “show himself” in the weakest ways. Why would the omnipotent god of the universe punish me for logical thinking?
@@avo.avocado Because it is not about logical thinking, it is about the faith you must have. He sent his son to die on the cross, he had people create the bible. There is proof right there.
Neither eternal torment nor living in heaven are actually in the Bible. These are Roman Catholic myths, which are themselves largely based on Greco Roman mythology.
I’m really interested in 1:26 and have seen many mixed answers online. How did you come to your answer regarding God forgiving satan (in the scenario that satan does in fact repent)? N.B.) this question is open to anyone, and I’m aware the name of “satan” is more of a title rather than an individual entiry
If one soul reject God and ends up in Hell than God was to weak to save that soul. If God is perfect mercy that mercy should be powerful enough to convince that soul. Surely given enough time fire will burn up everything so God’s mercy in time will redeem every soul.
Did you not literally say in this video at 2:00 that it’s the Devil whispering to us that we’re going go to hell and burn forever, keeping us down? What does that say about the belief in a “heaven and hell” afterlife most Christians/Catholics believe? (Coming from a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). Don’t let the devil put fear into your heart and seek the truth God has revealed to us. All of Gods children will be sent to a degree of glory.
@@imbeggar no way man. Thank you so much for noticing me, that’s really awesome how my favorite Christian RUclipsr commented on my comment. Keep up the good work 🙏🛐
God respects our free choice. Why else would He give us free will? God is merciful and wants us to be forgiven, but it cannot happen unless we ask for His forgiveness.
@@schormu if he wanted to forgive us he would. hes omnipotent and nobodys stopping him. furthermore, there is no such thing as free will, we can make choices, but those choices can be predicted based on the brains we were born with and how they develop in the world we experience by happenstance
He is Just(righteous, he won't let the sinner go unpunished, but Jesus he bared our transgressions... Meaning Jesus Christ his son is our forgiveness ) but yet loving and merciful..
Something off topic from this video but I'd like some advice on how to be kind to class mates I find to be unpleasant to be around. They have mocked and bullied me and I would like to be kind to them without be ridiculed or experiencing what I did in the past.
I understand where you are coming from, I also got bullied pretty relentlessly when I was in junior high (grade 7-9 in canada) and I felt like no matter how hard I tried to be kind to people they would just spit back in my face. The best way I was told to deal with it in my opinion, is just that you have to understand that some people are out to hate, sometimes because they are mad at you or they are just generally mad at their life. It is really tough when you are trying your best to be kind but sometimes it is for the best to ignore them, weather its phyical or verbal it definitly isn't fair and I really hope the best for you. If you are able to just ignore the hate and not let it get to you (finding different people to hang out with/not showing any emotion toward the bullying) It may help, but I totally understand your frustration. :(
Hey friend. I hear you and I’m sorry. Youre a good person for asking. God commands us to “love” everyone… meaning, we truly wish the best for them. But he doesn’t say we have to “like” everyone. Especially those who bring us harm. So I would say, wish them the best in your heart (which is true kindness), be kind if you have to interact with them, but just avoid/ignore them otherwise. Peace.
@@NoNo-xh7ruOr is our idea of perfection warped? It's kind of a scary thought because there's a possibility that all of us, in the end, may be surprised to find that our entire idea of perfection, good and bad, mercy, is all made up constructs. And what then?
Could you maybe do a video about the end of times, for example my mother always tells me about how things are gonna get worse and worse in the world before Jesus comes back for the rapture. I also have heard from the bible there will be a mark of the beast, which you should never get. I would really want to know more and understand, and I love your videos
* The whole you cannot have love without mercy. Could you provide evidence to support this conclusion? Otherwise I disagree as I love my friends without needing mercy and I love my parents without having mercy. Due to this it appears it is possible to love without mercy. * To the question, would I forgive me? My response is, to what do I have to ask myself for forgiveness for? * After thinking how merciful God is, I find myself being more merciful than it. I would be so merciful I would not ask my followers for animal sacrifice, I would not instruct them to commit genocide, to legislate the treatment of others as property, to harm another man to satisfy a bet, I would not ask another to pay for the bad deeds of others. As to it being perfect, see above. * I firmly believe that I do not get to choose what I believe. Either something meets my internal level of evidence or it does not. If the bible is to be taken as fact, then it is God who made it this way. It is God who required me to need this level of evidence for my belief. If it is never provided then God in all his mercy made me for the purpose of suffering in hell. For some reason that does not seem merciful at all. So the end question is, why does God make people for the purpose of suffering for eternity in hell?
@uDropper it's too late for mercy in hellfire. You had your whole life to accept jesus christ as your Lord and saviour, but you didn't, and you stayed in ignorance the rest of your life based on your own accord now it's time for your punishment
"Today, I was led by an angel to the Chasms of Hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw: The First Torture that constitutes hell is: The loss of God. The Second is: Perpetual remorse of conscience. The Third is That one's condition will never change. The Fourth is: The fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it. A terrible suffering since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God's anger. The Fifth Torture is: Continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own. The Sixth Torture is: The constant company of Satan. The Seventh Torture is: Horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.
1:25 i don’t think He would forgive satan. there are sins even man can commit that are unforgivable mark 3:29 “therefore I say to you, whoever blasphemes agains the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin” and im sure satan has blasphemed against the Holy Spirit quite a few times…
Actually, he would, but he won't because Satan is so full of pride and evil that he would never ask for forgiveness. In addition, that sin refers to when a person who knows all the wonderful things that God has done and is prefers to do the opposite. The verse refers to the fact that it will not be forgiven, assuming that that person will die doing wrong things because the person will die without taking God's merciful gift. And obviously, once you die, your chances are over.
@@bluepoa592doesn’t satan know the truth and still turn? all the wonderful things God has done and prefers to do the opposite? also for context in mark 3 the verse right after says “He was saying this because they were saying ‘He has an impure spirit’,”. they were calling the Holy Spirit satan. they thought they were following God and probably repented of their sins many times but they were wrong to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, even if it was unknowingly.
@@wrongperson1692A sin committed in ignorance doesn't count as much. In the Old Testament a murderer was put to death but if it was manslaughter Moses literally commands to skip town and not come back for a(likely)couple decades
Hell is how a soul experiences the love of God when he or she finds it repulsive. The fire and darkness is metaphorical language. Other interpretations are late inventions of theologians
Romans 9-11 has a very happy ending: "God has consigned all to disobedience, that He may have mercy on all. … From Him, and through Him and to Him are all things." (Romans 11:32,36a)
@imbeggar I feel something need to tell you. I agree with you, but it seems a little vague. I want to say “God is love, but God is just.” The impartial judge does send people to hell, we are taught to “fear (respect) Him who has authority to cast into hell.” It means that since God is just, He will send someone to hell, although you’re right, it’s not His personal choice. Hell is inevitable, it’s not a choice. It’s not God’s decision, it’s not people’s decision, it’s a decision that’s made for someone when they break God’s Standard, and He himself is the standard,
edit - I suppose you can say it is His personal choice in that He chooses to punish evil, but he’s not willing that anyone perishes. Sorry, just making sure that was clear. God’s heart does break every time someone goes there, but there is an acknowledgement that no one is there who is innocent. It’s sad, but it’s true.
amen. I would say we choose hell by our rejection of God and/or all that is good, love and truth. In order to reject something takes intention and will, or choice. Its like a child who turns his back on his loving mother. The mother waits with arms open but the child never returns then unfortunately dies in that state of separation from his mother. The mother is devastated, It was not the mothers choice. And you are right, hell is real, and our knowledge of it even more should drive us to Gods mercy. Peace friend.
2:39 Except you literally just said our mercy is imperfect. How do we forgive as perfectly as God when we're not equipped for it? This is like asking a dog to speak. ACTUALLY speak, not just bark.
As a person that grew up in Sweden (very atheist country) i have recently started to belive in god, but there is one thing that struggels me. Everyone i know is atheist including my family and basically thinks religions are stupid and that the people who belive in them are stupid. I don't know what to tell them i am Christian without them being dissapointed :(
Be för din familj. De kommer gå bra :) ja kom till tro själv för 2 år sen kommer dock från en muslimsk bakgrund. Du behöver inte skämmas för din tro. Känn stolthet.❤Jesus älskar dig
i don't wonna go to hell, is that it? Wiill go still send me there when i made it clear? He's an all powerful god who created the the rules of how we are judged and created hell, while giving us free will and not allowing us to choose any other path the him under the threat of eternal torment. And also he doesn't even show himself.
He does not send us to hell, we choose hell when we decide we want to live in sin and not believe in God. We are allowed to choose any path we want yes, but as if someone were to break a law there is a punishment. And he sent Jesus, his son, and the bible. That is enough.
We must understand the difference between light and darkness and how each other behaves when the other occurs. Darkness is the absence of Light that doesn't mean light caused darkness. God is light, perfect and absolutely good therefore cannot cause evil, darkness, or death but his absence can result in death, evil, and darkness. That's what the enemy is always trying to achieve by causing you to sin he knows once you sin you fall short of his glory and you fall in darkness where he has access to steal, kill and destroy. God can not cause his harm, but his absence from you causes it, or when he withdraws his nature, presence from something that why hell exists hell is separation from God where every thing good or god like attributes is/are not there.
This is the same thing the enemy(Lucifer) understood very clearly when he fell from God presence, and use it to cause others to fall as well as, he couldn't come in his original form in the garden but came through by possessing a snake and lied in order to cause Adam and Eve to die he used this same tactic to cause others to fall through lies and caused them to fall and then subsequently steal, kill or destroy them.
Hey, Please could you make a video on how to forgive others and specially yourself even when it's very hard to. Cause I find it easier to say that I have forgiven someone but deep down I probably haven't forgiven them fully. Get what I mean? Thank you imbeggar❤️
Ask god for help. Ask for god's power to help you forgive. Know that truly god forgives anyone and everyone no matter the act or sin. If god can forgive you for all that you do because he loves you, love others the way he loves you and forgive them for it is up to god to judge them. Give your burden to god.
This is total heresy. Many references are in the Bible that people will be burning for ever, that they will be in the lake of fire. What you did here is evil and leading souls astray.
@@imbeggar He is a God of mercy and an austere judge (Luke 19:21). If you break the carnal law there is a consequence, you go to jail or are punished in some way. If you break God's law, it is more serious. The consequence for liars, fornicators, homosexuals is Hell. If they do not repent. I did not get that message from what you posted.
@@bijbelevangelisatie4023 Yes, God is merciful and Just. Paise God. We are all sinners. i prefer to tell people about Gods mercy than to tell them they are going to hell. Jesus also warned about "judging", our role is simply to invite everyone to the banquet. Peace.
The ONLY mention of eternal torment in the ENTIRE BIBLE is in Revelation 20:10. The only beings tormented forever are Satan, The Beast and The False Prophet. And though it says they will be tormented day and night forever, death and hell are also.thrown into the lake of fire in verse 14 and destroyed. Plus, Satan is a fictional character. Not sure it makes sense to torture him. The Catholic story of Lucifer the angel rebelling and becoming Satan is not even hinted at in the Bible.
My friend believes that she can never be saved, that she loves sinning and never wants to stop. For that she says she'd rather never ask for forgiveness when she knows she'll sin again. This video might be for her. Her sin isn't comparable to the devils and that God can forgive all sin.
If one was to go to Hell by his own choices, pushing away God; if he was to realize his mistakes and ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness while in the depths of Hell, would God save him? Is Hell only Eternal to the extent that we turn away from God?
@arthureverling2631-hell is the grave. no fire. People need to read the book for themselves and not listen to these hellfire and damnation false teachers. Study in the words for hell in the original languages, google, Ghenna, Sheol, Hades, Tartaroos.
@carolbowen1693 - Absolutely. Some of the early Gentile converts adopted a version of Christianity that led to all this afterlife nonsense. Most of it can be traced to Greco Roman mythology.
I'll be honest with you, I was barely tought God growing up as a kid. Of course I grew up hearing about God or Jesus every now and again along with saying grace at dinner but..God wasnt really the biggest part of the picture in my life. Just someone who was there and was inconsequential to me...and I think that was the biggest mistake of all. Im at a point where for the past 2 weeks, I've been trying to cram in as much information thats in Christianity and Catholicism and the words of John 3:16 ring in my ears with how beautiful it is...but theres a problem Ive heard about sin and ive tried to stop (with help from the holy spirit of course) cursing, doing the 5-knuckle-shuffle, listening to music that ive been told isnt pleasing to God and this God that I hear of.. The God of love and mercy...thats not the God I've found myself believing in.. Ive found myself believing in a God who if you slip or don't make the correct decision, hes gonna damn me to hell forever... Im not gonna do enough while following his son and hes gonna damn me straight to the outer darkness and complete seperation.. I just.. I just wanna know the God of love and mercy
First Remember that We are not perfect. Only Jesus has been perfect. But he doesnt want uss to live in sin he wants uss to be holy. The good thing is that you actually thinking of trying to become better then giving upp whitch you should never do since many will fall away for God and that will let satan take over you back to bondage. 1. First you need to know how mutch God loves you. So mutch that he Died for you. 2.Next step Confess that you are a sinner and ask God for forgivness 3.he has forgiven you 4. Dont look back on your flaws. 5. Start getting into deep Prayer,Let God set you free from everything. Call out for The blood of Jesus over yourself and for protection 6. Start listning to music and pray same time and Thank God in ur prayers . 7. Start reading The bible 20 min a Day so you can feed The holy spirit with The Word . 8. If you have brothers and sisters in christ be some days in their company and pray for eachother etc.
I really recomend you to 2 follow Diga hernandez on RUclips, hes really good educating about The holy spirit. Bless you God will deliver you in Jesus Name. He has a calling upon your life so be strong and get closer to God in Jesus Name 🙏
The repercussions of wrong (unhealthy) thought and action are varying degrees of self-induced suffering and ultimately a state of torment we call Hell.
Not so much with the goats in Matthew 25:46, though. Sanity requires far more: Acts -- 0 mentions of Hell Paul -- never uses the word Hell The Entire Old Testament -- 0 mentions Something's not lining up. There is no hell. There will be a lake of fire, but it will contain sulfur (aka "brimstone") (Rev. 21:8), which changes everything: --------------- Pre-Roman civilizations used sulfur as a medicine, a fumigant, a bleaching agent and in incense. The ancient Greeks used sulfur to fumigate, to purify, to cleanse and consecrate to the deity. For example, in Homer's _Iliad,_ in Book 16, a goblet is purified with sulfur. For example, in Homer's _Odyssey,_ in Book 22, we find: "Bring me sulfur, which cleanses all pollution, and fetch fire also that I may burn it, and purify the cloisters." The Romans used sulfur as an insecticide, and to purify a sick room to cleanse its air of evil. For millennia, gold has been refined with fire _and sulfur,_ because of its ideal chemical properties. ( ruclips.net/video/4lHWv4zM7iA/видео.html ) --------------- The Old Testament has many refining metaphors: Deut. 4:20, 1 Kings 8:51, Psalms 12:6, 66:10, Prov. 17:3, 25:4, 27:21, Isa. 1:22-27, 48:10, Jer. 9:7, Zech. 13:9, *Mal. 3:2-3.* Maybe they should inform how we think about fire in the New Testament. Jesus even offered to sell gold refined by fire (Rev. 3:18). This shows that he too was thinking about refining too on the day the book of Revelation, including its "lake of fire," was born. --------------- "But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For *he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.* He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and *he will purify* the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord." --Malachi 3:2-3 --------------- *Connecting the Dots: The metaphorical lake of fire will punish **_and refine (purify)_** sinners. All will eventually be saved. God is good. Hallelujah!* --------------- John 12:32, 17:2, Rom. 5:18-19, 8:19-21, 11:32,36, 14:11, *1 Cor. 15:22,28* , Eph. 1:10, Phil. 2:10-11, 3:21, Col. 1:20, 1 Tim. 2:3-6, 4:10, Titus 2:11, 1 Pet. 4:6, 1 John 2:2, 4:14, Rev. 5:13, 15:4, 21:5,24-25, 22:2, combination of (Rev. 22:1,14-15,17a,17c), Psalm 22:27,29, 65:2-3, 145:10a, Isa. 25:6-8, 45:22-25, 57:16, Lam. 3:22,31, Ezek. 16:53,55, Mal. 3:2-3, The Total Victory of Christ videos.
So, I’m going to bring up some of my biggest concerns with faith. And I’m going to take any wisdom shared with me as an indirect way for my hypothetical creator to communicate with me. I’m writing because I genuinely want to understand. If my parent saw me about to get hit by a train, it doesn’t matter if I just told them I hate them and want them to go away. It doesn’t matter if I have shunned them my entire life. They don’t even need to be my parent or know me. They would save me. My definition of unconditional love is someone who will love you even if you despise them. And to love someone is to protect them even if they never thank you. I don’t know why I can’t expect this kind of love from the most all loving, all powerful being in the universe. I’m having a hard time reasoning this. I can’t help but feel like God sucks at his job. Billions of individual souls will suffer for eternity. Why? Because they didn’t secure their spot next to their creator. They didn’t acknowledge him as their savior or worship him wholeheartedly. Why is it that this is all that’s required to be saved? Why is it that so many morally upstanding agnostics/ atheists will suffer forever, meanwhile a man who many Christian’s claim is their brother is Christ, Ted bundy, is considered fit for salvation by god? What separates the sheep from the goats? Because it doesn’t seem to be moral quality, it seems to be whoever worships the one in charge of deciding who is saved. Which seems odd to me. What about the non believers who genuinely seek out their creator? After a tragedy in my community, I desperately wanted to know God. I cried out to any divine being who might have been listening, I even asked for Jesus himself to communicate with me somehow. But I found nothing. I’ve professed Jesus as my savior many times because the first few times I figured I must have done it wrong, because the Holy Spirit didn’t seem to be working. But I still found nothing. And most Christian’s seem to be just as confused as me (considering all of the hundreds of different sects of Christianity who all think the others are wrong but believe they have the Holy Spirit.) All anyone has told me is that it must be this sinful, cursed world that makes it so hard. And all I can think is, why can’t god succeed despite all that? Doesn’t it say in the Bible god wills everyone to be saved? How can he fail so miserably? Why will billions of souls not be saved? Because the world was too cursed? Too sinful? Satan was too powerful? Some people argue that god designed it this way. And I can’t help but feel sick at the thought of a creator designing a system in which only a select few are able to be saved and live with their divine father, and the rest are left to suffer eternally. How does god justify this to himself? People tell me deep down I must just not want to know the truth. But I’m telling you I’ve tried, and any last part of me that is secretly resisting is not something I can do anything about. People tell me ‘gods ways are just too hard to understand.’ That’s not something I can base my faith off of when my faith informs the way I live my life and the people I surround myself with. And I know that answer isn’t enough for millions of other individuals, all of whom are supposedly going to hell for not finding solace in those half baked responses. So where do we turn? Has anyone answered them satisfactorily? Do I just keep praying and hope God hears me and shows me what I can’t see right now? I would love some podcast, books, or online creator recommendations. If anyone has struggled with similar concerns and found some way to continue to justify their faith, or was able to get in contact with our creator despite struggling like I have, please tell me how you did that. I’ve been struggling with mental health for almost a decade now, with no end in site. I looked up ‘why am I always miserable,’ and the first video on this channel popped up. I feel like my life is missing something. If you believe praying for me would actually help, please do so, maybe God will hear you better than me Thank you for reading
The idea that God will torture His creatures in fire for eternity is a lie. God is the savior of all mankind. Demons want you to believe their doctrines which have infected the human race through the institutions that they have built up, namely the churches. All of God's creatures will be reconciled to Him eventually. The creation will be perfected through Christ's work. Colossians 1:20 Philippians 2:10 1 Timothy 4:10 Romans 5:18 1 Corinthians 15:21-28
Hello i am curious; do you believe hell is eternal and forever or do you think souls are able to escape? I have been struggling with what i believe in terms of hell/punishment and the idea of a God who is forgiving punishing those who simply don't believe in him becuase they weren't lucky enough to be born in the right spot at the right time seems terrifying to me. Thank you for your videos they give me so much faith
Hell isn't actually mentioned in the Bible the only thing close is eternal death which could be hell to some people but it isn't a burning place really its just death.
@marcom248 - since non physical is never mentioned in the Bible (nor any non physical existence at all), we can assume it is also physical death or nonexistence. Forever.
Is there a God? a valid question. but what the Jews, Christians and Muslims call God (by whatever name they call them) ARE not the real god. Those gods are very powerful alien beings who engineered homo-sapiens as we know today, established themselves as gods on Earth and taught people to worship them.
god isnt merciful. hes opportunistic. he enslaved us, and then bought us from sin, allowing us no choice but to obey and love him. why would it be considered a mercy when our sin was paid by him so that he could glorify himself?
Gods mercy is not perfect if I go to hell due to the lack of his forgiveness. No matter how much silly analogies are used to justify His being bound to some metaphysical laws. I mean… did he forget to forgive me? Did he cast me in the pit Himself? Is there some Legal System he is bound to that prevents him from forgiving me anyway despite my sins?
With all due respect But i would forgive myself for not believing in the christian God or any other god from known religions because they seem man made and have no proof but just faith. All equally right. And with no evidence for a god,i wouldn't blame myself for not believing. Or in the case of LGBTQ community,i wouldn't blame them for loving same sex people. Love is love after all.
1:39 he is unable to be vengeful? 1. I thought he was all powerful, and therefor can do anything, including take revenge. 2. Millions of innocent people in the Old Testament would beg to differ.
Can i ask something and i hope somebody gives me an answer why would god create a being just to let it go to hell because if god is all powerful and all knowing then from the moment he created you he would know if you go to heaven or hell then why create that being a being that will bring suffering to others around him and an eternal suffering for himself why would god put this being in such a state there probably an answer and i cant find it
Great question. The answer is simple, He wouldn't. God would not create people and then torture them endlessly. Hell is a lie, it doesn't exist. Nowhere in the Bible is hellfire taught. You are struggling with the contradictions of a God of love and justice creating the most unloving and unjust punishment possible. It's flat out untrue and the Bible proves it. Here are a couple of easy examples: The wicked are destroyed not tortured forever. "These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength" 2 Thessalonians 1:9 The dead cannot think or feel anything, so eternal torment of the dead is not possible. "the dead know nothing at all... ...their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished" Ecclesiastes 9:5,6
@@Pj-fm7oe well I found this "Gehenna" in the New Testament, where it is described as a place where both soul and body could be destroyed (Matthew 10:28) in "unquenchable fire" (Mark 9:43). There are more Jesus spoke of hell as “eternal fire” (Matt. 25:41) and “eternal punishment” (Matt. 25:46). In Matthew 25:46, the same word-eternal-is used to describe eternal life for the righteous and the eternal punishment of hell for the unrighteous. Jesus clearly taught that sinners were condemned in sin and would perish and go to hell if they didn't believe in Him as their Savior (John 3:16-18). disciples and some Pharisees, Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. When both die, the rich man goes to Hell and implores Abraham to send Lazarus from his side in Heaven to warn the rich man's family from sharing his fate. Everyone will exist eternally either in heaven or hell (Daniel 12:2,3; Matthew 25:46; John 5:28; Revelation 20:14,15).
Hell is an imaginary to discourage Christian independent thought from the Church just as purgatory was an imaginary so the Church could monetise guilt.
I thought the one condition for his mercy was that you have to believe in Jesus. This video does nothing to address the real criticism of hell nonbelievers have. If he is infiinitely merciful and forgives everyone why does he a realm of eternal torment where he sends people who reject him? It also seems that his forgiveness comes with another pretty big condition, that being once you're dead and in hell you can never be forgiven and have to suffer forever.
But what I don't get is, if God loves us and his love is like, bigger than infinity, wouldn't he try the hardest to keep us from hell? Besides he could do literally anything. I'm having quite a lot of questions about my faith so I really hope you'd see and answer this cuz I assume you know God better than me
God is the savior of all mankind. He will save all humans eventually. 1 Corinthians 15:21-28 Romans 5:18 1 Timothy 4:10 Philippians 2:10 Colossians 1:20
"What father holding his little girl’s hand crossing a busy street would ever let it go? The more she pulls, the tighter he squeezes. There is no way she is going anywhere! Is God any different? The argument that a person can choose hell by rejecting God as a result of 'free' will is in effect saying a little girl has more strength than her dad. God has given man a 'measure' of free will, but certainly not to the degree that He would allow him or her to damn themselves forever in torment. Is God less of a parent than we are (Matt. 7:11)?" -- Gerry Beauchemin, _Hope Beyond Hell,_ 2010, pg. 38 People can resist God for longer than a lifetime, but not forever: "And I [Jesus], when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." (John 12:32) I recommend The Total Victory of Christ videos. rdneonian7680's verses are great too.
Imagine doing literally everything possible to get away from God and then being pissed when He respects your decision .
I love this!!! Such a good way to explain it!! God bless you and yours =)
I think this sums it up in a nutshell.
Ha. Truth.
Atheists in a nutshell.
God is a person with a gun pointed at your head. “Hell” is them pulling the trigger. “Salvation” is them not. As the hostage, you either “love and worship” the person with the gun for all eternity, with blind obedience, and live, or you’ve “forced” them to kill you. That’s the choice the religious has postulated. Does it sound like a free choice?
I just discovered your channel from your prayer video, I have a lot of misconceptions about God I subconsciously hold. I can say all day that I believe he's a loving God, but I struggle to believe it sometimes. Hearing what you have to say on your channel has made me burst into tears multiple times. Thank you, and God bless you
Because he tells what people wanna hear, not what's actually in the manual
@@eidiazcas Got it in one. He's also using all the tricks in the book.
I wonder who this guy really is
Man you have been such a light into my own life and your videos have consistently struck a chord within my heart every time that I have watched them. I have learned some great bits of knowledge and wisdom from your videos that help me to understand God's Character more clearly along with words to say to others that may bring comfort. Thank you for spreading the Love of Christ and His message and I pray that all who listen to your videos may be driven to grow closer to our Lord Jesus. God Bless You!!!
Amen friend. Thank you for this. I’m just passing along the knowledge I learned. Peace and God bless you.
God wills that: "all are saved and come to the knowledge of the truth..." 1 Tim 2:4. He sends no one to hell. Hell is poplated by volenteers who opt for their eternal destination by virture of their own choice to say NO to God's boundless mercy. May the grace of final penetence follow us to the very end. Amen.
amen. Well said. thank you.
The doors of hell are locked from the inside. CS Lewis
@@t2bzofree4798 Precisely!!! 💐
The “all” in that verse means all kinds and, like most epistles, Paul is talking about Jews and Gentiles. Pas is used later in the epistle for money is the root of all kinds of evil.
@@timkeslar3615 Thanks Tim 💐. God creates no one destined for damnation from birth and provide ALL sufficient grace to attain salvation but has divine foreknowledge of those who will not avail themselves of the grace of final penitence ❤️🥂🎊⭐️
This video came at the right time for me... Yet, there´s a few dangers here and I´m having trouble balancing them out: the first is having mercy become a license for relativism. "Everything you do is OK because God will have your back" kind of attitude. The other danger is being so forgiving of oneself that you mistake your own permissivity with God´s mercy. This can practically become an abolition of the pursuit of holiness. Treading the path between these excesses is the narrow way indeed... Hard to do. Hope yall succeed brothers and sisters. Please pray for me, God bless!
Great point and very true, we must never take Gods mercy for granted. The two things I believe God looks for in us is we must be truly sorry (a humble and contrite heart), and a firm resolve to turn away from our sin. Thanks for the comment.
God doesn’t send us to hell it’s our own decisions that could make us go to hell
Yes
That implies that we have the agency over our decisions to avoid doing wrong. It’s a perspective that conveniently ignores the effects of one’s personal experiences, genetics, culture, etc on their own decision making. It implies that all action comes from a place of knowing and understanding and that every human knows when they’re doing wrong.
The path to hell is paved with good intentions, but how does an average person separate good intentions from absolute good? How does one achieve a level of consciousness that could bring about awareness of the effects our actions have on others?
Hell to me is like the boogie man. A tale told to keep us in line. A truly loving and altruistic god wouldn’t need to threaten us with an eternity of torture. Hell doesn’t exist on some separate plane. It is here. We create it.
@@kyleh6173 God doesn’t send people to hell you choose it if you choose to be a good person throughout your life and we’re never brought up Christian/Catholic and only had the intention of loving people you would go to heaven because God wants to be with us but sometimes through our actions through sin especially mortal sin we say “no I don’t want to be with you God” so the alternative is Hell
@@kyleh6173 Hell is the absence of God (All good), I wouldn’t say to keep us in line rather an alternative to God because you and me and others actively reject him and he won’t force himself onto you, just place you in the absence of him.
I did not ask to be born on this hell planet
God says “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy…” in Romans 9:15 .
Here's who God will have mercy on:
"God has committed all to disobedience that he might have mercy on all ... From him and through him and to him are all things." (Romans 11:32,36)
Remember what God said to St. Foustina - he really wants to give his right hand (mercy) but those who refuse it ,will face the left (justice)
Amen. She also said God greatest attribute is his mercy. Peace.
Eternal torment isn't justice.
@@ncrwadr that is right! and since He is Righteousness, He doesn't do that! Why would He keep dead people alive when His word says you either PERISH (cease to exist) or have eternal life. this erroneous teaching of His burning people in hell for all eternity, has been the biggest detriment to people believing in Him.
@@ncrwadr Exactly. Doesn't matter how wicked someone was. The unlimited punishment doesn't fit the limited crime.
@@carolbowen1693 That sounds like what I learned when I was basically but not quite a Seventh Day Adventist (not thinking that you are necessarily). But the reality is even better than that, in that all will come full circle in the end (of the ages) and be redeemed. I may've already mentioned this in another comment thread with you in it but there's a great book on the subject called Raising Hell by Julie Ferwerda for free in pdf.
This video really blessed me, as I have been tormented all my life by the idea that I will spend an eternity in hell. Your voice exudes compassion and mercy I really felt like Jesus was speaking. Please keep making these vids! God bless 🙏🏾
we do NOT spend an eternity in hell! We either PERISH (ceast to exist) or have eternal life. John 3:16
there are 4 words translated as "hell" in the Bible, 2 in the O.T and 2 in the new. In the O.T the words are "Ghenna" and Sheol. Ghenna was a place outside JerUSAlem where they would burn their refuse and occasionally the body of a dead criminal who had no one to see to his remains. Sheol means the grave/place of darkness. In the N,T the words are Hades which is also a place of the dead/grave and the last is Tartaroos meaning a place of restraint where satan is. there is no fire in the grave, only in the lake of fire at the end which is reserved for satan and his demons but if you chose to go, you go.
Read the free pdf book Raising Hell by Julie Ferwerda.
@@carolbowen1693People will stay in hell until the end of time, where after that they will stay another 1000 years, and then they will be thrown into the lake of fire, leaving existence, and yes, the lake of fire is a A place other than hell, there are some parts of the apocalypse that make this clear.
Absolutely love your videos. Most underrated youtuber ever and spreading the Word in such an effective and impactful manner.
Amen. Thank you for this, its encouraging. And thanks for watching friend. 🙏
AMEN!
You have a lot of talent man! being able to use the right words and images to pass on such meaningful messages, you're blessed ! Thanks !
-./*1) If God wasn`t forced to created?
2) And God know beforehand he created he will create something he doesn`t want (sin) and due to his will of creating that most mankind will be doomed to eternal suffering in hell?
3) And If God don`t want that people to be in eternal pain.
4) This God won`t create something in the first place...
It's been about 1 hour since I discovered your channel. And I have been crying at every video I saw. Thalnk you, just thank you.
These are some of the most important videos ever made. You've made a real difference in my life.
Thanks man
As I slowly reintroduce myself to religion and ask myself why I left and if it was and is a choice I'm happy with I find that these videos are very helpful in answering some of my questions I have regarding religion and faith. I am unsure as to if or how long I will continue my journey into religion but with great videos like yours and a world of resources to use I am currently very excited about it.
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing. All the best on your journey. 🙏
its about the relationship-not the religion
@@carolbowen1693 /*1) If God wasn`t forced to created?
2) And God know beforehand he created he will create something he doesn`t want (sin) and due to his will of creating that most mankind will be doomed to eternal suffering in hell?
3) And If God don`t want that people to be in eternal pain.
4) This God won`t create something in the first place...
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@@a.39886 do you have children? did you want a family? do your children obey the rules of your house? do they break them? did you ever break your father's rules? did he punish you? did he force you to break his rules or did you exercise your free will and suffer the consequences of your choices?
@@a.39886 He does not burn people in "hell" forever. hell is the grave as I explained above. there is no fire in the grave-the lake of fire at the end is reserved for satan and his demons but if you want to go, you'll go.
Your vids are tear jerkers I love them!praise be to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!!
Thank you helping get closer to God, I have never been this close
Amen friend. Thank you for this comment. Appreciate it 🙏.
Here are my thoughts; is hell a merciful decision to create? God is merciful, yes, under the premise of the pre-existing conditions that he has created. I can also be called a merciful man for not beating my cat to death, if it was something actually considerable to me. So my question is, is sending a temporal being into an ocean of infinite pain for all eternity a merciful thing, no matter the conditions? Even if the being begs to be thrown in there I question whether it would be a merciful thing to agree and let it happen. Note that I am a devout Christian now becoming Catholic, and despite all of my incredible experiences with God these thoughts still linger at the back of my head.
Amen man, and welcome aboard. There is much debate on this as Im sure you are aware. The way I look at it is like the child who rejects his mother. The mother has her arms open wide to the child no matter what he has done, but the child continues to reject her. If he dies, he dies in a state of separation from his mother. She is devastated. And as much as it kills her, she holds his freedom.
Im a recent Catholic convert myself and I often have the same type of questions. Here´s what helped me so far: Thomas Aquinas and many other doctors of the Church would define evil, not as something positive, but as something negative, the lack of something. In this light, we can´t say God "created" hell. Hell is the result of rejecting the good things that are from God.
Also, hell may be thought of as a place of suffering, but Tradition also understands it as a state of the soul. The catechism itself uses this language. This makes a lot more sense to me. You are not "sent" somewhere. That place is within you. If a man feels that his wife is "distant" though they live under the same roof, it doesn´t mean that she is literally at a greater geographical distance from him. This distance is a spiritual distance, it´s all in the heart.
God is like a universal tuning fork and we are like strings that need to be tuned into that frequency - except instead of sound, the frequency is love and forgiveness. When we arrive on the other side, we may be out of tune. If we don´t care about tuning ourselves to God and we just want to go our way and play our own song, that´s hell. It´s a state of our souls, which is not the result just of what we do, but of the decision to reject God in our hearts.
The last thing I´d like to say, and which really made me click, is this: God created us out of love, and He wants us to love Him back and be united with him. Now, love can only be voluntary. You can´t force someone to love. That´s implied in the very nature of love. Love is only truly love as long as it´s freely given. This is why freedom is the whole reason why we were created. If the whole point is love, the whole point is freedom. If we don´t have freedom to reject God, we don´t have freedom to love Him either. Which makes hell a necessary consequence of the whole equation.
What I´m struggling with right now is understanding what it means for the suffering to be "eternal". It can´t mean "every day forever", since time as we perceive it now will probably be perceived differently when we´re dead or resurrected. It might be some sort of endless present moment, a changeless state. I´m still searching for clues regarding this.
Hopefully something I said was helpful, cheers and God bless you my friend.
In loving relationship, the relationship cant work through force. God loves us enough to let us make our own choices and gives us an option to be with him. We have to make that choice God... or not. Love is something that is freely given by free will. With out free will we cant love, we would be just robots. God lets us learn to love who he is or hate him... and if you hate him then you love evil as the bible says. People who love evil can dwell in evil forever AKA, Hell.
@@ThePhilosorpheus Great insight. I recommend the free pdf book Raising Hell by Julie Ferwerda.
@@lightningmtaylor I don't think anyone could really hate God if they truly understood him.
If you believe you can lose your salvation, you're counting on your own righteousness and are not saved.
Salvation is eternal, it can not be lost, God promises this.
You must trust in Christ ALONE for salvation. God cannot lie.
So lets say - Someone is Christian, they believe in God and professed their faith. One day, they commit the most atrocious, vile act ever done on Earth. Unrepentant, and they lost all their faith. Are they saved?
Think about it. They are like seeds scattered on thin soil. They may take those words and let them take root, but the roots cannot penetrate deep into the soil, and as a result, they are swept away, and die. This is a part of the Parable of the Sower.
@@badalybumdadum that is a misunderstanding of the parable.
@@cjames9320 Proceeds to not elaborate.
@badalybumdadum parables are meant to confuse the unsaved. Your rejection of the gospel, as well as your misunderstanding of the parable witness one to the other.
I could elaborate the parable, but without the belief of the gospel, you don't have the Holy Spirit, and therefore won't believe it even so.
@@cjames9320 What are you talking about?? Parables are meant to enlighten them. He uses parables so that those that want to understand can understand. These are his teachings, not some ploy to confuse others??
i feel like i forgive too easily, like i wish i could hold a grudge but i just cant. Like i keep forgiving the same person and they keep hurting me but i just cant stop forgiving them because i value our relationship so much
I understand I was that same, your forgiveness is a brilliant thing!
But at the same time you must also value yourself and to know your true worth, I don't know who this person is or what they may have done to you but best thing, the absolute best thing you can do is forgive them once more and then just walk away, separate yourself from them, that is the only way forward any other way would just lead to destruction, whether it be yours, theirs or both.
To forgive doen't mean they don't face consequences
Life changing is an understatement, for the videos you have made and shared with all of us! Can you PLEASE share more!?!?
it's so hard to forgive people that did bad things to us. that's the price of forgiveness.
Hi thank you for these videos, i am getting more and clear information, please don't stop your videos with amazing voice and clearer understing and giving more hope, makes us to believe more upon the almighty
Amen. Thank you for this. Peace. 🙏.
Some of the comments already say it, but your videos are truly a work of art and a light to us all. Keep up the amazing work and sharing how amazing our Father is. Thank you so much, I am truly grateful to have found you. God bless you🤍
God's love and mercy are always there for us.
Prove It.
@BradynLee faith is unnecessary if you have proof.
How many people had pain while they been in faith? All of them. Pain itself sounds demonic to me. I'm doubting the bible and the concept, because the more I see it, the more consequences comes across. How do you believe it's forgiven if you have negative experiences through life?
@@svix01 We all have negative experiences through life, even if you’re religious or not, you have faith that God isn’t real, and we have faith that God is real
@@yeethan1094 Ok, you have proof God is a good person that has proven himself to help people in the Bible if they trust him, and hasn’t failed, now, use that argument with air pilots, you’ve seen they can fail, but you still place your trust in them cause you know they can still succeed
Imagine satan one day suddenly repents and all of us out of nowhere get to heaven LOOOL WHAT A PLOTTWIST
Lmao😂❤
i mean. just because satan suddenly fucks off doesn't automatically mean hell will cease to exist? im not completely sure, i need to read the bible more
i mean there would still be demons who'd do whatever they want, no? who knows, maybe some other fodder demon will take up the position. i dont know
I just found this channel. These words of encouragement are timeless. They apply to all phases in life and all situations in life. Thank you.
This is poison.
You willingly ingest poison and enjoy it.
I'm so upset that God never guides me, says in his word to throw away our anxiety. desires, fears, everything, and is never present, never listens. I don't ask for anything material, even in the worst situations, always guidance, and that's for me to follow his will, nor is it literally something for me to use, and he never passes, I don't feel anything other than him having turned his back on me and not the opposite, and even feeling and living all of this, I try to continue following the word, but in law, of loving God, it is broken in my heart, because all I have is upset, discomfort and disgust for believing in this and never seeing the contrary, because that was the reality of my entire life
The christian god does not exist so you can have an easy life on earth. Many Christians in the bible are executed for their beliefs, by stoning, by burning, by cross. You can either choose to accept this fact and continue to believe like Job, or give up.
We don't always know what God would want from us specifically, but even when we feel lost, that's why we have his word, to guide us, that's why it's called a light.
God is there, everything points to him existing, and the evidence for Christ's reliability is outstanding. It gets really hard sometimes, but use that doubt to research and study further, and build that faith that you know you have for God.
Others will tell you that he doesn't exist, so just don't worry about it, yet they have no true meaning, nothing matters in the end in their view, it's merely ignorance and pride in stuff they know very little about, I warn you to keep away from falling into those pits.
it's hard to follow and hear God sometimes, but when we're lost, we come together and study the words he left us.
Your voice is made for these work, it helps me find peace every time i watch your videos, thank you so much
There's an amazing quote I heard about hell that says " Hell is a place that has a door that is locked from the inside"
Literally love your video God Bless
and God bless you. Thank you friend 🙏
Man you are so underrated, but this is how the world functions. We are not from it, so it hates us. We are sanctioned by the world we live in because we are not from it. God said that it would happen but also that we should take heart and stand firm. Keep advancing the Kingdom of God!
is it me or am i the only one who is scared that he might stop uploading due to not gaining but I really hope more people could see your videos
Thank you friend. I wish I could upload more frequently but I have to do other work to pay for this. Hopefully one day the subs come, ha! Pray for me. 🙏
I have never seen someone, say the line "you send yourself to hell" without ever even uttering the word.
in a way, breaking down what that truly means.
So, eternal torture, torment and inconmensurable pain are mercy?
Because hell its just not “bein away from god” its all theese things, that is what is written there in the bible, just for not believing ?
What if you are a good person and just dont want to believe because you súffered from this religion
What if you dont believe because this religion says nonsense like “hey dont get a tattoo” or “ hey dont be gay just because i say so, do it or youll go to hell “
Really?
Thats your concept of love?
Of mercy?
Punishing someone so unproportionally, so unfairly just for small stuff like that?
Do people really deserve eternal pain just for not following that kind of Rueles?
“Be with me or against me’ thats the Message right here, and thats not love, thats ruthlesness.
Small stuff like not beliving in the creator of the universe? God is willing to forgive anyone who Asks to be, but if you dont belive, you will never ask
@@ProfessorPrelHow could I believe in him when he choses to “show himself” in the weakest ways. Why would the omnipotent god of the universe punish me for logical thinking?
@@avo.avocado Because it is not about logical thinking, it is about the faith you must have. He sent his son to die on the cross, he had people create the bible. There is proof right there.
Neither eternal torment nor living in heaven are actually in the Bible.
These are Roman Catholic myths, which are themselves largely based on Greco Roman mythology.
I believe our actions are what set us up into going to Heaven or Hell.
Amen.
@@imbeggar , amen to you too! God bless!
I’m really interested in 1:26 and have seen many mixed answers online. How did you come to your answer regarding God forgiving satan (in the scenario that satan does in fact repent)?
N.B.) this question is open to anyone, and I’m aware the name of “satan” is more of a title rather than an individual entiry
If one soul reject God and ends up in Hell than God was to weak to save that soul. If God is perfect mercy that mercy should be powerful enough to convince that soul. Surely given enough time fire will burn up everything so God’s mercy in time will redeem every soul.
Did you not literally say in this video at 2:00 that it’s the Devil whispering to us that we’re going go to hell and burn forever, keeping us down? What does that say about the belief in a “heaven and hell” afterlife most Christians/Catholics believe? (Coming from a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). Don’t let the devil put fear into your heart and seek the truth God has revealed to us. All of Gods children will be sent to a degree of glory.
I really love you’re vids man, I hope you end up having a bigger voice.
Amen. Thank you for this comment friend. It’s in Gods hands. Peace. 🙏
@@imbeggar no way man. Thank you so much for noticing me, that’s really awesome how my favorite Christian RUclipsr commented on my comment. Keep up the good work 🙏🛐
We pick our own paths. Stay strong brothers and go on the small door and narrow path. Our Lord Jesus is waiting for us
The question was why does god send us to burn for eternity despite supposedly having endless mercy. You didn't even try to answer
God respects our free choice. Why else would He give us free will? God is merciful and wants us to be forgiven, but it cannot happen unless we ask for His forgiveness.
@@schormu if he wanted to forgive us he would. hes omnipotent and nobodys stopping him. furthermore, there is no such thing as free will, we can make choices, but those choices can be predicted based on the brains we were born with and how they develop in the world we experience by happenstance
PSA: Jesus is the only way to heaven
He is Just(righteous, he won't let the sinner go unpunished, but Jesus he bared our transgressions... Meaning Jesus Christ his son is our forgiveness ) but yet loving and merciful..
Your a good guy and I appreciate you and your vids ❤️
and I appreciate you. Thank you for this and thanks for watching. (and you see like a good guy/gal too) 🙏
What is the Calvinist interpretation of:
"And I [Jesus], when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." (John 12:32)
In scripture the only way through my Father is through me
I am the way, the truth and life
We have to except Just as our Savior
Satan can't repent.
Something off topic from this video but I'd like some advice on how to be kind to class mates I find to be unpleasant to be around. They have mocked and bullied me and I would like to be kind to them without be ridiculed or experiencing what I did in the past.
I understand where you are coming from, I also got bullied pretty relentlessly when I was in junior high (grade 7-9 in canada) and I felt like no matter how hard I tried to be kind to people they would just spit back in my face. The best way I was told to deal with it in my opinion, is just that you have to understand that some people are out to hate, sometimes because they are mad at you or they are just generally mad at their life. It is really tough when you are trying your best to be kind but sometimes it is for the best to ignore them, weather its phyical or verbal it definitly isn't fair and I really hope the best for you. If you are able to just ignore the hate and not let it get to you (finding different people to hang out with/not showing any emotion toward the bullying) It may help, but I totally understand your frustration. :(
@@samuelbrozny8183 Thank you for the advice and I'm sorry you went throug the same thing.
Hey friend. I hear you and I’m sorry. Youre a good person for asking. God commands us to “love” everyone… meaning, we truly wish the best for them. But he doesn’t say we have to “like” everyone. Especially those who bring us harm. So I would say, wish them the best in your heart (which is true kindness), be kind if you have to interact with them, but just avoid/ignore them otherwise. Peace.
@@imbeggar Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it
Question:
If you’re in this “hell” because you couldn’t forgive others, is it possible to get out if you forgave them in there?
Love that question.
No because your fate is sealed after death
no, heaven and hell are the absolute final destinations anyone can go, once you are in hell that's where you'll be for eternity.
@@supremexnigel6058if God won’t forgive you once you’re in hell then is he truly perfectly merciful?
@@NoNo-xh7ruOr is our idea of perfection warped? It's kind of a scary thought because there's a possibility that all of us, in the end, may be surprised to find that our entire idea of perfection, good and bad, mercy, is all made up constructs. And what then?
Keep up with the videos every video you make i cry because they are true and are beautiful. Amen
Amen. Thank you God bless you.
@@imbeggar your welcome brother your videos are helping alot of people keep the faith. Amen
Love your videos
thank you friend - thanks for watching 🙏
These thoughts, they just won't leave me alone 😭
Are you okay?
@@thedemonslayer6365 ye now I'm good
@@anonyguyy thats great, take care
Your artistic nature, and mind, I completely relate to. Thanks for this
Could you maybe do a video about the end of times, for example my mother always tells me about how things are gonna get worse and worse in the world before Jesus comes back for the rapture. I also have heard from the bible there will be a mark of the beast, which you should never get. I would really want to know more and understand, and I love your videos
The rapture was actually a concept that was developed in the 1800s--Jesus only returns again once, not twice.
* The whole you cannot have love without mercy. Could you provide evidence to support this conclusion? Otherwise I disagree as I love my friends without needing mercy and I love my parents without having mercy. Due to this it appears it is possible to love without mercy.
* To the question, would I forgive me? My response is, to what do I have to ask myself for forgiveness for?
* After thinking how merciful God is, I find myself being more merciful than it. I would be so merciful I would not ask my followers for animal sacrifice, I would not instruct them to commit genocide, to legislate the treatment of others as property, to harm another man to satisfy a bet, I would not ask another to pay for the bad deeds of others. As to it being perfect, see above.
* I firmly believe that I do not get to choose what I believe. Either something meets my internal level of evidence or it does not. If the bible is to be taken as fact, then it is God who made it this way. It is God who required me to need this level of evidence for my belief. If it is never provided then God in all his mercy made me for the purpose of suffering in hell. For some reason that does not seem merciful at all.
So the end question is, why does God make people for the purpose of suffering for eternity in hell?
Well what if a person in Hell asks for mercy?
Not possible
@@gdslayer3385 how it's not possible, you are being tortured, first thing you do is ask for mercy
@uDropper it's too late for mercy in hellfire. You had your whole life to accept jesus christ as your Lord and saviour, but you didn't, and you stayed in ignorance the rest of your life based on your own accord now it's time for your punishment
"Today, I was led by an angel to the Chasms of Hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw:
The First Torture that constitutes hell is:
The loss of God.
The Second is:
Perpetual remorse of conscience.
The Third is
That one's condition will never change.
The Fourth is:
The fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it. A terrible suffering since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God's anger.
The Fifth Torture is:
Continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.
The Sixth Torture is:
The constant company of Satan.
The Seventh Torture is:
Horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.
1:25 i don’t think He would forgive satan. there are sins even man can commit that are unforgivable
mark 3:29 “therefore I say to you, whoever blasphemes agains the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin”
and im sure satan has blasphemed against the Holy Spirit quite a few times…
Actually, he would, but he won't because Satan is so full of pride and evil that he would never ask for forgiveness. In addition, that sin refers to when a person who knows all the wonderful things that God has done and is prefers to do the opposite. The verse refers to the fact that it will not be forgiven, assuming that that person will die doing wrong things because the person will die without taking God's merciful gift. And obviously, once you die, your chances are over.
@@bluepoa592doesn’t satan know the truth and still turn? all the wonderful things God has done and prefers to do the opposite?
also for context in mark 3 the verse right after says “He was saying this because they were saying ‘He has an impure spirit’,”. they were calling the Holy Spirit satan. they thought they were following God and probably repented of their sins many times but they were wrong to blaspheme the Holy Spirit, even if it was unknowingly.
@@wrongperson1692A sin committed in ignorance doesn't count as much. In the Old Testament a murderer was put to death but if it was manslaughter Moses literally commands to skip town and not come back for a(likely)couple decades
Hell is how a soul experiences the love of God when he or she finds it repulsive. The fire and darkness is metaphorical language. Other interpretations are late inventions of theologians
Jesus Christ is the truth reach out, nothing but respect
You forgot Jesus. This is not the gospel. This is a kind of modern approach to God.
I love your videos, God feels closer when I learn from you.
Romans 9-11 has a very happy ending:
"God has consigned all to disobedience, that He may have mercy on all. … From Him, and through Him and to Him are all things." (Romans 11:32,36a)
God will save all. He will become all in all at the end of His plan of the ages. 1 Corinthians 15:21-28
@imbeggar
I feel something need to tell you. I agree with you, but it seems a little vague. I want to say “God is love, but God is just.” The impartial judge does send people to hell, we are taught to “fear (respect) Him who has authority to cast into hell.” It means that since God is just, He will send someone to hell, although you’re right, it’s not His personal choice. Hell is inevitable, it’s not a choice. It’s not God’s decision, it’s not people’s decision, it’s a decision that’s made for someone when they break God’s Standard, and He himself is the standard,
edit - I suppose you can say it is His personal choice in that He chooses to punish evil, but he’s not willing that anyone perishes. Sorry, just making sure that was clear. God’s heart does break every time someone goes there, but there is an acknowledgement that no one is there who is innocent. It’s sad, but it’s true.
amen. I would say we choose hell by our rejection of God and/or all that is good, love and truth. In order to reject something takes intention and will, or choice. Its like a child who turns his back on his loving mother. The mother waits with arms open but the child never returns then unfortunately dies in that state of separation from his mother. The mother is devastated, It was not the mothers choice. And you are right, hell is real, and our knowledge of it even more should drive us to Gods mercy. Peace friend.
Read the free pdf book Raising Hell by Julie Ferwerda.
Thank you for these videos. God bless you.
God bless you!
2:39 Except you literally just said our mercy is imperfect. How do we forgive as perfectly as God when we're not equipped for it? This is like asking a dog to speak. ACTUALLY speak, not just bark.
Bravo.
@@bugsbundy1494 sense of self as an illusion
@@bugsbundy1494 very nuanced. I like your takes much better than most.
@@bugsbundy1494 Except it does. John 20:23.
@@bugsbundy1494 No Scripture is of private interpretation. It says what it says.
As a person that grew up in Sweden (very atheist country) i have recently started to belive in god, but there is one thing that struggels me. Everyone i know is atheist including my family and basically thinks religions are stupid and that the people who belive in them are stupid. I don't know what to tell them i am Christian without them being dissapointed :(
You dont live your life for others
Be för din familj. De kommer gå bra :) ja kom till tro själv för 2 år sen kommer dock från en muslimsk bakgrund. Du behöver inte skämmas för din tro. Känn stolthet.❤Jesus älskar dig
It's not easy to come out as the opposite. Maybe you can have some conversations that involve reasoning and deep thought.
i don't wonna go to hell, is that it? Wiill go still send me there when i made it clear? He's an all powerful god who created the the rules of how we are judged and created hell, while giving us free will and not allowing us to choose any other path the him under the threat of eternal torment. And also he doesn't even show himself.
He does not send us to hell, we choose hell when we decide we want to live in sin and not believe in God. We are allowed to choose any path we want yes, but as if someone were to break a law there is a punishment. And he sent Jesus, his son, and the bible. That is enough.
We must understand the difference between light and darkness and how each other behaves when the other occurs. Darkness is the absence of Light that doesn't mean light caused darkness. God is light, perfect and absolutely good therefore cannot cause evil, darkness, or death but his absence can result in death, evil, and darkness.
That's what the enemy is always trying to achieve by causing you to sin he knows once you sin you fall short of his glory and you fall in darkness where he has access to steal, kill and destroy.
God can not cause his harm, but his absence from you causes it, or when he withdraws his nature, presence from something that why hell exists hell is separation from God where every thing good or god like attributes is/are not there.
This is the same thing the enemy(Lucifer) understood very clearly when he fell from God presence, and use it to cause others to fall as well as, he couldn't come in his original form in the garden but came through by possessing a snake and lied in order to cause Adam and Eve to die he used this same tactic to cause others to fall through lies and caused them to fall and then subsequently steal, kill or destroy them.
Hey,
Please could you make a video on how to forgive others and specially yourself even when it's very hard to. Cause I find it easier to say that I have forgiven someone but deep down I probably haven't forgiven them fully. Get what I mean?
Thank you imbeggar❤️
Ask god for help. Ask for god's power to help you forgive. Know that truly god forgives anyone and everyone no matter the act or sin. If god can forgive you for all that you do because he loves you, love others the way he loves you and forgive them for it is up to god to judge them. Give your burden to god.
This is total heresy. Many references are in the Bible that people will be burning for ever, that they will be in the lake of fire. What you did here is evil and leading souls astray.
How is leading others to God's mercy heresy? I do not deny hell.
@@imbeggar He is a God of mercy and an austere judge (Luke 19:21). If you break the carnal law there is a consequence, you go to jail or are punished in some way. If you break God's law, it is more serious. The consequence for liars, fornicators, homosexuals is Hell. If they do not repent. I did not get that message from what you posted.
@@bijbelevangelisatie4023 Yes, God is merciful and Just. Paise God. We are all sinners. i prefer to tell people about Gods mercy than to tell them they are going to hell. Jesus also warned about "judging", our role is simply to invite everyone to the banquet. Peace.
@@imbeggar if you go to Hell, your blood be on your own head
The ONLY mention of eternal torment in the ENTIRE BIBLE is in Revelation 20:10. The only beings tormented forever are Satan, The Beast and The False Prophet. And though it says they will be tormented day and night forever, death and hell are also.thrown into the lake of fire in verse 14 and destroyed.
Plus, Satan is a fictional character. Not sure it makes sense to torture him.
The Catholic story of Lucifer the angel rebelling and becoming Satan is not even hinted at in the Bible.
My friend believes that she can never be saved, that she loves sinning and never wants to stop. For that she says she'd rather never ask for forgiveness when she knows she'll sin again. This video might be for her. Her sin isn't comparable to the devils and that God can forgive all sin.
If one was to go to Hell by his own choices, pushing away God; if he was to realize his mistakes and ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness while in the depths of Hell, would God save him? Is Hell only Eternal to the extent that we turn away from God?
@arthureverling2631-hell is the grave. no fire. People need to read the book for themselves and not listen to these hellfire and damnation false teachers. Study in the words for hell in the original languages, google, Ghenna, Sheol, Hades, Tartaroos.
@carolbowen1693 - Absolutely. Some of the early Gentile converts adopted a version of Christianity that led to all this afterlife nonsense. Most of it can be traced to Greco Roman mythology.
I'll be honest with you, I was barely tought God growing up as a kid.
Of course I grew up hearing about God or Jesus every now and again along with saying grace at dinner but..God wasnt really the biggest part of the picture in my life. Just someone who was there and was inconsequential to me...and I think that was the biggest mistake of all.
Im at a point where for the past 2 weeks, I've been trying to cram in as much information thats in Christianity and Catholicism and the words of John 3:16 ring in my ears with how beautiful it is...but theres a problem
Ive heard about sin and ive tried to stop (with help from the holy spirit of course) cursing, doing the 5-knuckle-shuffle, listening to music that ive been told isnt pleasing to God and this God that I hear of..
The God of love and mercy...thats not the God I've found myself believing in..
Ive found myself believing in a God who if you slip or don't make the correct decision, hes gonna damn me to hell forever...
Im not gonna do enough while following his son and hes gonna damn me straight to the outer darkness and complete seperation..
I just..
I just wanna know the God of love and mercy
First Remember that We are not perfect. Only Jesus has been perfect. But he doesnt want uss to live in sin he wants uss to be holy. The good thing is that you actually thinking of trying to become better then giving upp whitch you should never do since many will fall away for God and that will let satan take over you back to bondage. 1. First you need to know how mutch God loves you. So mutch that he Died for you. 2.Next step Confess that you are a sinner and ask God for forgivness 3.he has forgiven you 4. Dont look back on your flaws. 5. Start getting into deep Prayer,Let God set you free from everything. Call out for The blood of Jesus over yourself and for protection 6. Start listning to music and pray same time and Thank God in ur prayers . 7. Start reading The bible 20 min a Day so you can feed The holy spirit with The Word . 8. If you have brothers and sisters in christ be some days in their company and pray for eachother etc.
I really recomend you to 2 follow Diga hernandez on RUclips, hes really good educating about The holy spirit. Bless you God will deliver you in Jesus Name. He has a calling upon your life so be strong and get closer to God in Jesus Name 🙏
The repercussions of wrong (unhealthy) thought and action are varying degrees of self-induced suffering and ultimately a state of torment we call Hell.
@@mikuspalmis sin can be punishments in and of themselves
The gates of hell are locked from the inside
Not so much with the goats in Matthew 25:46, though.
Sanity requires far more:
Acts -- 0 mentions of Hell
Paul -- never uses the word Hell
The Entire Old Testament -- 0 mentions
Something's not lining up.
There is no hell. There will be a lake of fire, but it will contain sulfur (aka "brimstone") (Rev. 21:8), which changes everything:
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Pre-Roman civilizations used sulfur as a medicine, a fumigant, a bleaching agent and in incense.
The ancient Greeks used sulfur to fumigate, to purify, to cleanse and consecrate to the deity.
For example, in Homer's _Iliad,_ in Book 16, a goblet is purified with sulfur.
For example, in Homer's _Odyssey,_ in Book 22, we find: "Bring me sulfur, which cleanses all pollution, and fetch fire also that I may burn it, and purify the cloisters."
The Romans used sulfur as an insecticide, and to purify a sick room to cleanse its air of evil.
For millennia, gold has been refined with fire _and sulfur,_ because of its ideal chemical properties. ( ruclips.net/video/4lHWv4zM7iA/видео.html )
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The Old Testament has many refining metaphors: Deut. 4:20, 1 Kings 8:51, Psalms 12:6, 66:10, Prov. 17:3, 25:4, 27:21, Isa. 1:22-27, 48:10, Jer. 9:7, Zech. 13:9, *Mal. 3:2-3.* Maybe they should inform how we think about fire in the New Testament. Jesus even offered to sell gold refined by fire (Rev. 3:18). This shows that he too was thinking about refining too on the day the book of Revelation, including its "lake of fire," was born.
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"But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For *he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.* He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and *he will purify* the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord." --Malachi 3:2-3
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*Connecting the Dots: The metaphorical lake of fire will punish **_and refine (purify)_** sinners. All will eventually be saved. God is good. Hallelujah!*
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John 12:32, 17:2, Rom. 5:18-19, 8:19-21, 11:32,36, 14:11, *1 Cor. 15:22,28* , Eph. 1:10, Phil. 2:10-11, 3:21, Col. 1:20, 1 Tim. 2:3-6, 4:10, Titus 2:11, 1 Pet. 4:6, 1 John 2:2, 4:14, Rev. 5:13, 15:4, 21:5,24-25, 22:2, combination of (Rev. 22:1,14-15,17a,17c), Psalm 22:27,29, 65:2-3, 145:10a, Isa. 25:6-8, 45:22-25, 57:16, Lam. 3:22,31, Ezek. 16:53,55, Mal. 3:2-3, The Total Victory of Christ videos.
So, I’m going to bring up some of my biggest concerns with faith. And I’m going to take any wisdom shared with me as an indirect way for my hypothetical creator to communicate with me. I’m writing because I genuinely want to understand.
If my parent saw me about to get hit by a train, it doesn’t matter if I just told them I hate them and want them to go away. It doesn’t matter if I have shunned them my entire life. They don’t even need to be my parent or know me. They would save me. My definition of unconditional love is someone who will love you even if you despise them. And to love someone is to protect them even if they never thank you. I don’t know why I can’t expect this kind of love from the most all loving, all powerful being in the universe. I’m having a hard time reasoning this.
I can’t help but feel like God sucks at his job. Billions of individual souls will suffer for eternity. Why? Because they didn’t secure their spot next to their creator. They didn’t acknowledge him as their savior or worship him wholeheartedly. Why is it that this is all that’s required to be saved? Why is it that so many morally upstanding agnostics/ atheists will suffer forever, meanwhile a man who many Christian’s claim is their brother is Christ, Ted bundy, is considered fit for salvation by god? What separates the sheep from the goats? Because it doesn’t seem to be moral quality, it seems to be whoever worships the one in charge of deciding who is saved. Which seems odd to me.
What about the non believers who genuinely seek out their creator? After a tragedy in my community, I desperately wanted to know God. I cried out to any divine being who might have been listening, I even asked for Jesus himself to communicate with me somehow. But I found nothing. I’ve professed Jesus as my savior many times because the first few times I figured I must have done it wrong, because the Holy Spirit didn’t seem to be working. But I still found nothing. And most Christian’s seem to be just as confused as me (considering all of the hundreds of different sects of Christianity who all think the others are wrong but believe they have the Holy Spirit.) All anyone has told me is that it must be this sinful, cursed world that makes it so hard. And all I can think is, why can’t god succeed despite all that?
Doesn’t it say in the Bible god wills everyone to be saved? How can he fail so miserably? Why will billions of souls not be saved? Because the world was too cursed? Too sinful? Satan was too powerful?
Some people argue that god designed it this way. And I can’t help but feel sick at the thought of a creator designing a system in which only a select few are able to be saved and live with their divine father, and the rest are left to suffer eternally. How does god justify this to himself?
People tell me deep down I must just not want to know the truth. But I’m telling you I’ve tried, and any last part of me that is secretly resisting is not something I can do anything about. People tell me ‘gods ways are just too hard to understand.’ That’s not something I can base my faith off of when my faith informs the way I live my life and the people I surround myself with. And I know that answer isn’t enough for millions of other individuals, all of whom are supposedly going to hell for not finding solace in those half baked responses. So where do we turn? Has anyone answered them satisfactorily? Do I just keep praying and hope God hears me and shows me what I can’t see right now?
I would love some podcast, books, or online creator recommendations. If anyone has struggled with similar concerns and found some way to continue to justify their faith, or was able to get in contact with our creator despite struggling like I have, please tell me how you did that.
I’ve been struggling with mental health for almost a decade now, with no end in site. I looked up ‘why am I always miserable,’ and the first video on this channel popped up. I feel like my life is missing something. If you believe praying for me would actually help, please do so, maybe God will hear you better than me
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The idea that God will torture His creatures in fire for eternity is a lie. God is the savior of all mankind. Demons want you to believe their doctrines which have infected the human race through the institutions that they have built up, namely the churches.
All of God's creatures will be reconciled to Him eventually. The creation will be perfected through Christ's work.
Colossians 1:20
Philippians 2:10
1 Timothy 4:10
Romans 5:18
1 Corinthians 15:21-28
Hello i am curious; do you believe hell is eternal and forever or do you think souls are able to escape? I have been struggling with what i believe in terms of hell/punishment and the idea of a God who is forgiving punishing those who simply don't believe in him becuase they weren't lucky enough to be born in the right spot at the right time seems terrifying to me. Thank you for your videos they give me so much faith
Hell isn't actually mentioned in the Bible the only thing close is eternal death which could be hell to some people but it isn't a burning place really its just death.
exactly!
Have you heard about the lake of fire which is called the second death
@marcom248 - since non physical is never mentioned in the Bible (nor any non physical existence at all), we can assume it is also physical death or nonexistence. Forever.
Is there a God? a valid question. but what the Jews, Christians and Muslims call God (by whatever name they call them) ARE not the real god. Those gods are very powerful alien beings who engineered homo-sapiens as we know today, established themselves as gods on Earth and taught people to worship them.
I love your videos and i want to thank you, keep making these!
Amen. I’m on it. Peace 🙏
ImBeggar, what is getting you to Heaven on Judgement day? (I actually wanna know)
God doesn't send anyone to Hell...they volunteer for it.
There Are Many Things You Don't Know Or Fully Understand.
You should talk about if drug use is a sin
Ok so god is actually Papyrus from Undertale :0
The gates of Hell are locked from the inside.
Yes I know that if you reject his Son Christ Jesus and him why don’t we love him and honor him he deserves it our love
god isnt merciful. hes opportunistic. he enslaved us, and then bought us from sin, allowing us no choice but to obey and love him.
why would it be considered a mercy when our sin was paid by him so that he could glorify himself?
How can you space something that you made for your own? Make that make sense?
Gods mercy is not perfect if I go to hell due to the lack of his forgiveness. No matter how much silly analogies are used to justify His being bound to some metaphysical laws.
I mean… did he forget to forgive me? Did he cast me in the pit Himself? Is there some Legal System he is bound to that prevents him from forgiving me anyway despite my sins?
With all due respect
But i would forgive myself for not believing in the christian God or any other god from known religions because they seem man made and have no proof but just faith. All equally right. And with no evidence for a god,i wouldn't blame myself for not believing. Or in the case of LGBTQ community,i wouldn't blame them for loving same sex people. Love is love after all.
Hell is not eternal, it's the 2nd death.
1:39 he is unable to be vengeful? 1. I thought he was all powerful, and therefor can do anything, including take revenge.
2. Millions of innocent people in the Old Testament would beg to differ.
I’d love to see a video on what it means to “fear” God
Fear god as you would fear a parent. Out of respect.
Can i ask something and i hope somebody gives me an answer why would god create a being just to let it go to hell because if god is all powerful and all knowing then from the moment he created you he would know if you go to heaven or hell then why create that being a being that will bring suffering to others around him and an eternal suffering for himself why would god put this being in such a state there probably an answer and i cant find it
Great question. The answer is simple, He wouldn't. God would not create people and then torture them endlessly. Hell is a lie, it doesn't exist. Nowhere in the Bible is hellfire taught. You are struggling with the contradictions of a God of love and justice creating the most unloving and unjust punishment possible. It's flat out untrue and the Bible proves it.
Here are a couple of easy examples:
The wicked are destroyed not tortured forever.
"These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength" 2 Thessalonians 1:9
The dead cannot think or feel anything, so eternal torment of the dead is not possible.
"the dead know nothing at all... ...their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished" Ecclesiastes 9:5,6
@@Pj-fm7oe well I found this
"Gehenna" in the New Testament, where it is described as a place where both soul and body could be destroyed (Matthew 10:28) in "unquenchable fire" (Mark 9:43).
There are more
Jesus spoke of hell as “eternal fire” (Matt. 25:41) and “eternal punishment” (Matt. 25:46). In Matthew 25:46, the same word-eternal-is used to describe eternal life for the righteous and the eternal punishment of hell for the unrighteous.
Jesus clearly taught that sinners were condemned in sin and would perish and go to hell if they didn't believe in Him as their Savior (John 3:16-18).
disciples and some Pharisees, Jesus tells of an unnamed rich man and a beggar named Lazarus. When both die, the rich man goes to Hell and implores Abraham to send Lazarus from his side in Heaven to warn the rich man's family from sharing his fate.
Everyone will exist eternally either in heaven or hell (Daniel 12:2,3; Matthew 25:46; John 5:28; Revelation 20:14,15).
Straight to the point. I love it
juxtaposing text with different words be like
I get all these comments asking “why did god send me to hell?”
Hell is an imaginary to discourage Christian independent thought from the Church just as purgatory was an imaginary so the Church could monetise guilt.
I thought the one condition for his mercy was that you have to believe in Jesus. This video does nothing to address the real criticism of hell nonbelievers have. If he is infiinitely merciful and forgives everyone why does he a realm of eternal torment where he sends people who reject him? It also seems that his forgiveness comes with another pretty big condition, that being once you're dead and in hell you can never be forgiven and have to suffer forever.
But what I don't get is, if God loves us and his love is like, bigger than infinity, wouldn't he try the hardest to keep us from hell? Besides he could do literally anything.
I'm having quite a lot of questions about my faith so I really hope you'd see and answer this cuz I assume you know God better than me
God is the savior of all mankind. He will save all humans eventually.
1 Corinthians 15:21-28
Romans 5:18
1 Timothy 4:10
Philippians 2:10
Colossians 1:20
"What father holding his little girl’s hand crossing a busy street would ever let it go? The more she pulls, the tighter he squeezes. There is no way she is going anywhere! Is God any different? The argument that a person can choose hell by rejecting God as a result of 'free' will is in effect saying a little girl has more strength than her dad. God has given man a 'measure' of free will, but certainly not to the degree that He would allow him or her to damn themselves forever in torment. Is God less of a parent than we are (Matt. 7:11)?"
-- Gerry Beauchemin, _Hope Beyond Hell,_ 2010, pg. 38
People can resist God for longer than a lifetime, but not forever:
"And I [Jesus], when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." (John 12:32)
I recommend The Total Victory of Christ videos. rdneonian7680's verses are great too.
so, is Satan as of today forgiven? and if so, does that mean hell gets deleted as well?
No