Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3
......The Truth of Grace
The time that I spent at the red stone was the most painful that I have ever experienced. Many times I simply could not take any more but had to withdraw my hand. Several times I went back to the blue or green stones to rejuvenate my soul before I returned. It was extremely hard to return to the red stone each time, but my love and appreciation for the Lord was growing through this more than anything I had ever learned or experienced.
Finally, when the presence of the Father departed from Jesus on the cross, I could not stand it anymore. I quit. I could tell that the angels, who were also experiencing what I was, were in full agreement. The willpower to touch the stone again simply was not in me anymore. I did not even feel like going back to the blue stone. I just laid on the floor weeping over what the Lord had gone through. I also wept because I knew that I had deserted Him just like His disciples. I failed Him when He needed me the most, just like they did.
"Heaven is much greater than we could have dreamed while on earth," he began. "This room is but the threshold of realms of glory that are far beyond the ability we had to comprehend. It is also true that the second death is much more terrible than we understood. Neither heaven or hell are like we thought they were. If I had known on earth what I know here I would not have lived the way that I did. You are blessed with a great grace to have come here before you have died." he said while looking at my garments.
I then looked at myself. I still had the old mantle of humility on, with the armor under it. I felt both foul and crude standing before those who were so regal and beautiful. I began to think that I was in serious trouble if I was going to appear before the Lord like this. Like the eagles, my old acquaintance could understand my thoughts, and he replied to them:
"Those who come here wearing that mantle have nothing to fear. That mantle is the highest rank of honor, and it is why they all bowed to you while you passed."
"I did not notice anyone bowing to me," I replied, a bit disconcerted.
"It is not improper," he continued. "Here we show each other the respect that is due. Even the angels serve us here, but only our God and His Christ are worshiped."
Matthew 18:3
“And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
You may need to continue to study the word and ask God's guidance to make sure you are on the right way. If you do a good thing for a disciple of Christ, you will not lose your reward.Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3
In my opinion you should concern yourself with your Christian walk and strengthening your relationship with Christ, rather than worrying about hell. Do the best you can. Know that God loves you, despite your shortcomings.
They advised me to recognize it when I made a mistake and to ask for forgiveness. Before I even got the words out of my mouth, I would be forgiven but, I would have to accept the forgiveness. My belief in the principal of forgiveness must be real, and I would have to know that the forgiveness was given. Confessing, either in public or in private, that I had made a mistake, I should then ask for forgiveness. After that, it would be an insult to them if I didn't accept the forgiveness. I shouldn't continue to go around with a sense of guilt, and I should not repeat errors I should learn from my mistakes.
"But," I said, "how will I know what is the right choice? How will I know what you want me to do?"
They replied, "We want you to do what you want to do. That means making choices and there isn't necessarily any right choice. There are a spectrum of possibilities, and you should make the best choice you can from those possibilities. If you do that, we will be there helping you."
I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything.
The qualifications for full salvation is that you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He rose from the dead. If you have accepted Christ as Saviour, you are fully justified and free from all condemnation. The scripture says that if we judge ourselves, we shall not be judged. This means that every born again believer who has judged themselves as a sinner and accepted Christ will avoid the Judgment. Those who will stand in the Judgment will be those who have rejected Christ. The basis on which they will be judged is their attitude to Christ and their response to the gospel.Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3
We need to be careful about promoting performance-based religion. Christian faith is based on grace as its foundation for salvation. It is the life-long process of sanctification that is based on our performance in the strength of the Holy Spirit. The best antidote for the fear of hell is to consider all the scriptures that show us that in Christ we are totally free from the guilt, punishment and condemnation of sin because Jesus took all our sin and replaced it with His righteousness in us.In my opinion you should concern yourself with your Christian walk and strengthening your relationship with Christ, rather than worrying about hell. Do the best you can. Know that God loves you, despite your shortcomings.
I command that your nervous system and any other part of your body that is causing the pain to be restored to its normal function and that the pain go right now in the Name of Jesus. I curse the spirit of affliction and command it to depart from you.I am Christian but I do not believe in hell. I feel God would not send anyone to a place of eternal torment. I have chronic pain disorder and it makes me know what constant pain feels like and I then understood that God could not do that to a human being. I only believe in heaven.
I curse that fear that is bullying and oppressing you and command it to go from you now.Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3
I agree.We need to be careful about promoting performance-based religion. Christian faith is based on grace as its foundation for salvation. It is the life-long process of sanctification that is based on our performance in the strength of the Holy Spirit. The best antidote for the fear of hell is to consider all the scriptures that show us that in Christ we are totally free from the guilt, punishment and condemnation of sin because Jesus took all our sin and replaced it with His righteousness in us.
But every Christian who is not still breathing has died already. So, this means a spiritual, "second death." But Revelation describes the lake of fire as the second death. If there is no Hell, then what is the second death?So that we wouldn't have to die ???
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is everlasting life through Christ Jesus. Romans 6:23
You know your sins better than I. But if what you said you believe about Jesus is true, then he saved you from all of that. No need to live in fear.Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3
Imagine you had a child. Imagine you raised your child, and that you loved that child more than life itself.
Now imagine the circumstances in which that child disappointed you so much you decided to throw them into a fire; not just an ordinary fire, but one in which your child would burn forever. Can you imagine such a scenario? Is there any situation you can imagine when it would actually happen?
Me neither.
Then the question becomes; are you capable of being a more loving parent than God is? If the answer is yes, then your concept of God is inadequate. If the answer is no, then eternal hellfire as traditionally taught in many churches becomes impossible; it is indeed totally impossible. I don't care what the Bible says; God is not a Psychopath.
So then we turn to the Bible to find out what the fire actually is, and we find that God is represented as fire many times, and that his fire is not one of destruction but of refining; we are tested in his fire in order to burn away the dross from our lives and leave behind the pure gold that is Christ's image in us. Moses speaks to God in the burning bush; Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego stand in the fiery furnace and are not harmed; therefore we can conclude that the fire which is God's presence is another way of describing his holiness, which is too pure for anything impure to remain anywhere near.
Aiui, this is a standard interpretation within the Orthodox church, and it is one I am happy to share with them. God's fire is one of refinement, not punishment. We either face that refining in this life or the next, but sooner or later we all face it. The major anxiety you are already coping with is part of this refining process.
Therefore the answer to your question becomes, no, you will not ever be sent to hell. You have already been there, you are being refined by it, and if you carry on as you are, being faithful every day, you will emerge from the trials of this life fully fit for heaven.
Remain in Him and He in you. You have a friend who is closer than a brother. He has taken your sin and really you have no right to worry about what he has done with it. You belong to Him and He will not let you go.Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3
The truth...Hello. I've been terrified of being sent to hell for a very long time now.
I don't know why I am. I have a Bible that I take very careful care of. It has no rips or tears or anything. I always put God first before anything and anyone. I know and accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. I believe in Him dying on the cross for all our sins. I accept that I sin and take full responsibility for it. I have asked for His forgiveness and totally feel He forgave me.
But what are the reasons I would be sent to hell? I have major anxiety about everything. It's truly really bothersome. So your answers will truly help reassure me, thank you. <3