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<MM>You know, I quite often hear the standard Christian response, God must send people to be eternally punished, because he is ultimately just. I was think to myself, if God is ultimately just, that's the reason there is no such place as hell.
Surely you wouldn't sentence someone to the same punishment for stealing bread, as you would for murder? No, only the most corrupt institutions of man would do such at thing. God's justice is perfect....that's why there is no such thing as eternal punishment.<MM>
You misunderstand everything.
People do not go to hell because they sin- people go tot hell because they reject the death burial and resurrection of Jesus for their sins.
Every human being stands condemned by nature! Eph. 2:
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Tjhe unsaved cannot even perceive the things of God.
All are condemned and god has provided a way for man to escape this punishment!
As for your words you wrote in red? I give you scripture:
Romans 9:
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
If God decides to do something- who are any of us to argue against it????
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