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Why did God still allow so many people to live in literall Hell conditions?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ivan Hlavanda" data-source="post: 76550379" data-attributes="member: 427006"><p>I know this is easy for me to write, as I never been persecuted, but it's truth...</p><p>Why does God owe us anything good? Why? What did we ever give Him? He created us to love Him and serve Him, God told us what will happen when we disobey Him, we rebelled and our relationship with God died. God could have destroyed humanity the moment we sinned, and it would be just. Why? Because God is love and good, thus He must hate all evil and He wants to destroy it. The punishment for sin is death, but God, because He is so loving, didn't yet judge us according to our sins, but in His loving nature wanting to show His mercy and forgiveness to save many.</p><p></p><p>But, there is no forgiveness without shedding blood, our sins still must be punished by death, otherwise God is not just. Jesus Christ took this punishment for our sins, and whoever believes in His perfect work on the cross, will be saved. That's it (read the story about Moses and the bronze serpent to get the better idea).</p><p></p><p>Now why did God allow Satan to deceive us and humanity to fall? Everything God does is for God's glory. By us falling, God the Son glorified the Father on the cross. In this God showed His incredible love and mercy. This of course does in no way mitigates our sin.</p><p></p><p>Why does God allow evil to happen in our lives? First of all, we deserve nothing, and no matter how bad things are, they are still not what we deserve, hell. Not even Holocaust is as bad as hell.</p><p>We must understand that God has all the wisdom and knowledge, we in comparison have grain of sand of wisdom and knowledge in a universe full of sand. God sees it all, we don't. This is where faith comes from, knowing that God has everything in control, and everything is going according to God's plan, in whatever He decide will give Him the most glory. God can do everything He wants, and He will do so. God is an also active God, meaning He will interfere in our life in such way that He achieves whatever He wants to achieve. Can He do that? Absolutely. Remember, we were created for Him, not God for us. We rebelled, we deserved hell yesterday, but God chose to show mercy.</p><p></p><p>I don't know if you read the Old Testament, especially Judges...but if you haven't, every time God's people (Israel in that time) fallen away from God and did evil, God would send a foreign country to beat them up and suppress them, making them suffer. God's people would then call God's name, repent of their evil, and they would fully turn their heart to God, serving, obeying and loving God. God allows the difficulties today for the same reason. For example, covid, God wanted to show the humanity that all the earthly things and lives they are holding onto have no value whatsoever, and that God is their only hope, not only against covid, but sin. Because we in ourselves have no hope. Look what a microscopic virus did to humanity. When you are dying, what good is your wealth, career, family, the way you lived etc. nothing (I can tell you this from an experience as I was close to death from a brain tumour, nothing mattered and when I realized this and cried in hopelessness, God saved me). Only thing that matters is your relationship with God and whether you are washed in Jesus' blood or not.</p><p></p><p>I am not saying, the reason for every hard thing in our lives is for repentance. That could be the main reason, or one of the reason, many times only God will know why He allows such and such a thing and it's not up to us to figure it out, but just to trust Him and depend on Him. God is in control and that is all we need to know. And that God has not yet dealt with us according to our sins, but there will be a time, and it is coming, so repent whilst you can and you are still alive, because one day you will die, and then it's too late.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ivan Hlavanda, post: 76550379, member: 427006"] I know this is easy for me to write, as I never been persecuted, but it's truth... Why does God owe us anything good? Why? What did we ever give Him? He created us to love Him and serve Him, God told us what will happen when we disobey Him, we rebelled and our relationship with God died. God could have destroyed humanity the moment we sinned, and it would be just. Why? Because God is love and good, thus He must hate all evil and He wants to destroy it. The punishment for sin is death, but God, because He is so loving, didn't yet judge us according to our sins, but in His loving nature wanting to show His mercy and forgiveness to save many. But, there is no forgiveness without shedding blood, our sins still must be punished by death, otherwise God is not just. Jesus Christ took this punishment for our sins, and whoever believes in His perfect work on the cross, will be saved. That's it (read the story about Moses and the bronze serpent to get the better idea). Now why did God allow Satan to deceive us and humanity to fall? Everything God does is for God's glory. By us falling, God the Son glorified the Father on the cross. In this God showed His incredible love and mercy. This of course does in no way mitigates our sin. Why does God allow evil to happen in our lives? First of all, we deserve nothing, and no matter how bad things are, they are still not what we deserve, hell. Not even Holocaust is as bad as hell. We must understand that God has all the wisdom and knowledge, we in comparison have grain of sand of wisdom and knowledge in a universe full of sand. God sees it all, we don't. This is where faith comes from, knowing that God has everything in control, and everything is going according to God's plan, in whatever He decide will give Him the most glory. God can do everything He wants, and He will do so. God is an also active God, meaning He will interfere in our life in such way that He achieves whatever He wants to achieve. Can He do that? Absolutely. Remember, we were created for Him, not God for us. We rebelled, we deserved hell yesterday, but God chose to show mercy. I don't know if you read the Old Testament, especially Judges...but if you haven't, every time God's people (Israel in that time) fallen away from God and did evil, God would send a foreign country to beat them up and suppress them, making them suffer. God's people would then call God's name, repent of their evil, and they would fully turn their heart to God, serving, obeying and loving God. God allows the difficulties today for the same reason. For example, covid, God wanted to show the humanity that all the earthly things and lives they are holding onto have no value whatsoever, and that God is their only hope, not only against covid, but sin. Because we in ourselves have no hope. Look what a microscopic virus did to humanity. When you are dying, what good is your wealth, career, family, the way you lived etc. nothing (I can tell you this from an experience as I was close to death from a brain tumour, nothing mattered and when I realized this and cried in hopelessness, God saved me). Only thing that matters is your relationship with God and whether you are washed in Jesus' blood or not. I am not saying, the reason for every hard thing in our lives is for repentance. That could be the main reason, or one of the reason, many times only God will know why He allows such and such a thing and it's not up to us to figure it out, but just to trust Him and depend on Him. God is in control and that is all we need to know. And that God has not yet dealt with us according to our sins, but there will be a time, and it is coming, so repent whilst you can and you are still alive, because one day you will die, and then it's too late. [/QUOTE]
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