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there will be a multitude of people who thought they were saved and are surprised to find themselves being thrown into hell.
Among other things, Jesus says,
"if you love those who love you, what reward have you?" in Matthew 5:46.
So, by being conceited, feeling we are better than others so we do not care to love them > this conceit is on its way to hell!!!!
Jesus was in Heaven itself, when He decided to come here to reach us and care for us and save us and share His own good with us. So, Jesus and Heaven are not at all about the conceit of picking and choosing who is good enough for us to love.
But God is all-loving. And plenty of people are "burnt" about loving unselfishly > this gives them motive to avoid Jesus. They possibly actually feel they are too good for Jesus . . . so they have a conceit problem, to say the least. They need to dump that and get into God's all-loving love, instead.
But what about the people who aren't saved, don't think that they're saved, do they really want to go to hell?
I think it's a character issue, not only about choices. If someone does not have and grow in the character of Christ's way of loving; then what is in them, really, and where is it going?
About those who do not know > Luke 12:48 < I consider that this is because one's character has so much to do with it, and not only what someone knows and does.
A person gains salvation/is born again/is going to Heaven based on their character, not on their choice?
The Bible does not agree with that assessment.
Romans 3:10-12(NIV)
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
How are we saved/born again/going to Heaven?
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
We are made right in God’s sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in the same way, no matter who we are or what we have done. (Romans 3:22)
For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed His blood, sacrificing His Life for us. (Romans 3:25)
For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)
For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
We are made right in God’s sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in the same way, no matter who we are or what we have done. (Romans 3:22)
For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God’s anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed His blood, sacrificing His Life for us. (Romans 3:25)
For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. (Romans 10:9-10)
We are saved when we exercise the faith that God has given us, by choosing to believe what God says about Jesus, in the Bible, and trusting Him to make it so.
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