That's not how I understand it.OR, maybe that verse actually speaks about people who speak that God must unconditionally love and therefore move towards some universalistic outcomes, contrary to Jesus. Jude's words don't speak of someone talking about hell or about conditional love; Jude's words talk about people perverting God's grace and denying the Father and the Son. Jesus talked about rejecting His Words as rejecting Him. So, someone who claims all are going to heaven eventually is rejecting the Words of Jesus. Someone who claims God loves you "no matter what you do" leaves people with the impression that changing isn't a requirement. But, if someone thinks they have the Holy Spirit and continues to live in sin, chances are real good they don't really have the Spirit they think they do. They would be the ones who "turn the grace of our God into an abomination".
As it's already been posted: God planned to reconcile us to Him before the foundation of the earth.....He died for us *while* we were still sinners. He even asked forgiveness for the very ones that killed Him (Luke 23:34)
This passage seems to speak to the idolatrous ways in Gehenna....and how people have turned the True God into this monster god--Molech-- that is appeased by sacrifices of tortured humans. "Turning his grace into lasciviousness":
Bible.org said:Gehenna
(originally Ge bene Hinnom; i.e., "the valley of the sons of Hinnom"), a deep, narrow glen to the south of Jerusalem, where the idolatrous Jews offered their children in sacrifice to Molech ( 2 Chronicles 28:3 ; 33:6 ; Jeremiah 7:31 ;19:2-6 ).
I don't believe the True God is anything like that (as this passage states):
They have built pagan shrines to Baal, and there they burn their sons as sacrifices to Baal. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing!~Jeremiah 19:5
....yet some have made Him into *just* that--denying His love for His creation (and distorting it into something else)....and the ultimate gift of love He gave us in enduring the cross (to demonstrate His love--Romans 5:8).
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