Another way to put it: if you had enough money to give everybody in the whole world a billion dollars, and your highest wish was for everybody to receive it, and you had the actual power to show them this offer is in fact true... well, why wouldn't you? Why let it depend on a few people convincing all the rest of the people that it's true, and let the vast majority of people who ever lived miss out? Of course it gets worse when you replace "a billion dollars" with "heaven" and "poverty" with "hell".
Some will say "but God has already given you all the evidence." No, he hasn't. If he did, everybody would have believed. No person who has ever lived would freely choose hell or even death if they actually knew they could simply choose eternal life instead.
In my own words and experience, my "billion dollars" is God's Love. The Bible says most people's "billion dollars" is money, sex, drugs, alcohol, being better then others, enjoying their life, doing what they want and when they want, etc.
Another way to put it: if you had enough money to give everybody in the whole world a billion dollars, and your highest wish was for everybody to receive it, and you had the actual power to show them this offer is in fact true... well, why wouldn't you? Why let it depend on a few people convincing all the rest of the people that it's true, and let the vast majority of people who ever lived miss out? Of course it gets worse when you replace "a billion dollars" with "heaven" and "poverty" with "hell".
Some will say "but God has already given you all the evidence." No, he hasn't. If he did, everybody would have believed. No person who has ever lived would freely choose hell or even death if they actually knew they could simply choose eternal life instead.
In my own life and experience my "billion dollars" is God's Love. I am statisfied in Jesus. Before Jesus Saved me my "billion dollars" was trying to statisfy myself in myself, the pleasures of the world, and wild living, but none of that statisfied me.
Now that I am living for Jesus people dislike me because I do the Right thing according to Jesus. I drive the speed limit, try to do things the right way instead of the easiest way, etc. Many people call good evil and evil good. They hate others for doing good. The worst people that I have encountered is religious people. When I question their religion they are ready to stone me. What I see is they think they got a get out of jail free card or a golden ticket. Religious leaders are the worst because they want the praise that comes from others, not God. They also make their living from there religion. To me following Jesus means suffering and persecution, but that is also Grace. God is in Control and He is doing what is best for me. God disciplines and corrects those that belong to Him so we don't continue living in sin but additionally we are tested and the people in the world also hate them. All God's Ways are Just and Right. Everything Jesus does is for the Best of those who call upon His Name in love .
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