What sends a person to hell...?

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Is repentance just a admission of guilt, or is it an admission of guilt followed up by a change afterward...

If it is the latter, we cannot successfully repent (if the latter) of "all" sin(s), can we...?

Repentance, Repenting, and being "repentant"...?

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Repentance is confession of sin, admitting the truth of your sin, acknowledging that God is righteous and holy, that He would be well within His rights to bring His just punishment upon that sin, it is acknowledging that there is nothing righteous in you, in and of yourself or your efforts, it is turning to God and turning away from rebellion to Him.

No one can truly repent until God does a work of regeneration in the heart of the believer in Jesus Christ.
 
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Repentance is confession of sin, admitting the truth of your sin, acknowledging that God is righteous and holy, that He would be well within His rights to bring His just punishment upon that sin, it is acknowledging that there is nothing righteous in you, in and of yourself or your efforts, it is turning to God and turning away from rebellion to Him.

No one can truly repent until God does a work of regeneration in the heart of the believer in Jesus Christ.
So if a person is not totally successful in doing away with "all" sin in their life, or God does not do it in them, then what does that mean for that person...?
 
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So if a person is not totally successful in doing away with "all" sin in their life, or God does not do it in them, then what does that mean for that person...?

There is 2 different concepts here.

1. The person cannot do away with any of their sin at all. No one has the ability to wipe away their own sin. Nor can we possibly know or remember all of our sin, either intentional sin, unintentional sin, sins of commission or sins of omission.
2. Salvation is by God's grace alone. He is the one who save the person because He is the only one who can save the person. Part of the process of salvation is repentance and repentance is also a gift from God. God does not fail in what He does, never has and never will. He is God. Jesus fully washes away each and every sin by the blood that was shed on the cross.
 
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Yes, the following is a cut-and-paste job, but from my own writings - the conclusion of two years of research into words such as "Hell" and "damnation." I tracked Hell down to Norse mythology - to the pagan Norse, is you didn't rate Valhalla, you went to Helheim (House of Hel), to be ruled over by the goddess Hel. So is "Hel" pagan and "Hell" Christian?

1. There is no mention of Hell in God’s Creation - therefore, Hell seems uncreated by God or anyone else. See Genesis 1:1, Isaiah 65:17, Jeremiah 7:31, 19:5, John 1:3, and many instances of “heaven and earth” paired together – without “hell.”

2. In Genesis 1, it is stated six times that God saw that what He had made was good, excluding Hell as being possible, as the Creation could not have been wholly good had Hell been in existence. See Genesis 1:10,12,18,21,25,31.

3. The Creation is properly a hierarchy, not a contested prize, fought over by God and Satan. See Genesis 1:1, Job 1 & 2, John 1:3, Philippians 2:10, Revelation 5:13.

4. N/A

5. N/A

6. N/A

7. God warns of death, but not of Hell. See Genesis 2:17, 3:3, Romans 6:23.

8. All people die, but none of them go to ECT – only to the grave/pit. See every instance of personal death in the Bible, with “hell” (if present) properly replaced with “sheol” or “hades,” as so often noted in the CCR.

9. For the Hebrews, “sheol,” hidden, covered and unknown, was the state, condition or place of the dead. It was where the body returned to the dust and the spirit returned to God (Who gave it). See Genesis 3:19, Ecclesiastes 12:7.

10. ECT depends on the concept of the Immortality of the Soul, and that comes, not from the Bible, but from paganism and Greek philosophy, from Socrates and Plato.

11. The Law given to Moses does not specify punishment in Hell, or warn of it. Punishments are delivered in the real world. See Exodus through Deuteronomy.

12. All the consequences of human disobedience to God are worked out in the real, here-and-now world – not in Hell. This includes destruction, perishing, God’s wrath and His cursings. See Deuteronomy 28:15-68, 30:19, Ezekiel 32:32, Romans 13:4.

13. Hell, by definition, opposes the Gospel (the Good News) because Hell can only be Bad News for those sent there – and thus, for most of living humanity.

14. Hell violates God’s Law, specifically the Law of the Jubilee, which sets all those in servitude free. See Leviticus 25:8-13, Romans 6:7,16.

15. The idea of damnation of people to Hell is at least absurd, and possibly blasphemous. See Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7,3:19, Ecclesiastes 12:7.

16. Hell, like Babylon, is confusion. Hell is hot, but it’s cold as…Hell. Hell is bright with fire, but it is dark. Hell is separation from God, but MK Baxter has Jesus touring Hell, chiding the damned. To go to Hell, you must be dead, but to be in ECT, you must be alive, but you’re dead, and on and on…

17. God’s plan for the wicked is to destroy their wickedness, not send them to Hell. See Psalm 1:6, 7:9, Isaiah 1:18, Jeremiah 3:12, Habakkuk 1:12, Philippians 3:21, Hebrews 10:26-27.

18. Those who die are freed from sin, as prophesied by the Law of the Jubilee. See Leviticus 25:8-13, Isaiah 1:18, Romans 6:7.

19. God speaks of ransoming/redeeming ALL from death and the grave – without exception. See Psalm 49:15, Ezekiel 16:55, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 1:10.

20. God is both willing AND able to save all. Given that He is omnipotent, we can ALL look forward with confidence to our salvation. See Psalm 49:15, 86:13, 103:8-14, 136, Isaiah 1:18, 6:7, 25:7-8, 26:19, 33:24, 43:25, 44:22, 45:8, 55:8-9, 57:16, 64:6-9, Jeremiah 3:12. Lamentations 3:26-32, Ezekiel 11:19, 16:55, Hosea 13:14, Micah 4:5, 7:18-19, Ephesians 1:10, Philipians 3:21, Colossians 1:19-20, I Thessalonians 1:10, I Timothy 1:15, 2:4-6, 4:10, 6:13, II Peter 3:9.

21. God compares Himself to a cleansing or refining agent – either fire or soap. Therefore, all instances of supernatural fire should be interpreted as being for refining and/or purification, not damnation. Fire in the Bible is never Hellfire, but natural fire or God’s Fire. See Malachi 3:2-3, Matthew 3:10-12, I Corinthians 3:15.

22. If God’s Fire is for baptism and refining, then that which is burned must be our carnal, sinful nature. It is symbolized by unfruitful trees, tares, chaff, wood, hay and stubble – by anything unable to endure the Fire. See Matthew 3:10-12, I Corinthians 3:11-15.

23. Christians should not follow the Hell of the ancient, pagan religions, but follow the truth of God’s Word, which does not contain either the concept of Hell or even the word “hell,” except in imperfect translations.

24. When we dig out mistranslations and peel away misinterpretations, we find that Hell is a 404. With Hell so deconstructed, the Bible and God are both silent on Hell. See Numbers 23:19, John 14:2.
 
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Many years a teacher of mine told me that he had a dream in which he died and went to heaven. Heaven was a beautiful room with an excellent library, comfortable chairs, beautiful woodwork and paintings, lovely music and amazing food and drink. However at one end of the room was a wall, and when he looked over the wall he could see the fires of hell blazing. Every so often one of the people who was in heaven would jump over the wall into the flames. My friend asked an angel why people were doing this. The angel's response: "God doesn't send anyone to hell, you do that yourself."
 
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Many years a teacher of mine told me that he had a dream in which he died and went to heaven. Heaven was a beautiful room with an excellent library, comfortable chairs, beautiful woodwork and paintings, lovely music and amazing food and drink. However at one end of the room was a wall, and when he looked over the wall he could see the fires of hell blazing. Every so often one of the people who was in heaven would jump over the wall into the flames. My friend asked an angel why people were doing this. The angel's response: "God doesn't send anyone to hell, you do that yourself."

In other words, if I am the ruler of a country and establish roasting people alive as punishment you would say that I am not responsible for the type of punishment being carried out. Are you making a joke?

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Angels are known to be very deceitful sometimes:

Corinthians 11:14 NIV
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light
 
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In other words, if I am the ruler of a country and establish roasting people alive as punishment you would say that I am not responsible for the type of punishment being carried out. Are you making a joke?

BTW
Angels are known to be very deceitful sometimes:

No, I am not making a joke. I am simply telling about a dream that a teacher of mine described to me. I think I was very clear in stating that.
 
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No, I am not making a joke. I am simply telling about a dream that a teacher of mine described to me. I think I was very clear in stating that.
It was a rhetorical statement not intended as an actual accusation. Of course I am aware that you aren't joking when you say that the person himself is totally to blame for choosing to be roasted alive forever and that the one who instituted that punishment is innocent of the consequences and totally devoid of all responsibility.
 
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It was a rhetorical statement not intended as an actual accusation. Of course I am aware that you aren't joking when you say that the person himself is totally to blame for choosing to be roasted alive forever and that the one who instituted that punishment is innocent of the consequences and totally devoid of all responsibility.
But I didn't say that "the person himself is totally to blame for choosing to be roasted alive forever and that the one who instituted that punishment is innocent of the consequences and totally devoid of all responsibility." Never said that at all. All I did was to tell of a dream that a teacher told me of having many years ago.
 
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Simple question: "What sends a person to hell...?"

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Here is the word of God:

"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life.
Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 3:36


"But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral
and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and
sulfur. This is the second death"
Revelation 21:8


"Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal
fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I
was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I
was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked
or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
Then the King will answer, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.’

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 25V41-46
 
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Were all sinners, we all sin and continue to do and stay in sin, (if your going to be honest) in this world there is no escape from it, till Christ comes back...

So, what sins send you to hell and which do not...?

We were all once sinners and most still are. I'm not going to say everyone still sins when they come to Christ. If they do that would make salvation pretty weak, IMO.
 
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What about those who, in God's eyes and judgment, never had an open door to believe, so to speak...?

I don't know the exact Bible verse but I believe there's one that says that God once "winked" at ignorance, but now commands everyone to repent.
 
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Nothing you do sends you to hell. The mechanism was triggered long before you were born. You are hell bound upon understanding the difference between right and wrong and doing nothing or choosing wrong. Confessing that Jesus is your Lord and Savior..., that is the turnaround. For those who wish to argue that there are billions who have not heard the word, I understand your concerns. But so far no one has proven to me that given the opportunity to choose, that any of those billions you are concerned about would have chosen to accept Jesus in the first place. Proof that exists in the fact that among those billions are people never exposed to the Christian nations who sought the truth and who sought Jesus without outside influence. They desired the truth and God sent them missionaries. So to say that they never had a chance is simply not supported. And even if it were, we are not to judge God. As the creator He knows who would come to him through His Son and who would not so those billions you are concerned about are not your concern. Worry about you and only you and your desire to seek God through Jesus.
 
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Simple question: "What sends a person to hell...?"

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. Unbelief! Not believing, in one's heart, that God raised Jesus from the dead. Period! By our daily fight against sin, ( See Paul's fight in Romans 7:14 ) , we may squirm in filthiness and despise our sins, but purely sinless? Only Jesus, and it's all throughout God's Word.
 
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Simple question: "What sends a person to hell...?"

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God Bless!

NO ONE EVER went to hell for sinning. Hell is for sinners who DO NOT REPENT.

Therefore.......

FAILURE TO REPENT......

is what sends people to hell.





(LUKE 13:3,5;) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.





REV 2:5,22
 
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