What wonderful questions you two have asked, and I do so hope that I could provide both of you answers to your dilemma.
Ill start with this bit.
[FONT="] So G[/FONT]od created me and made me inherit sin? Sinfull at birth? Just because Adam and Eve sinned, God will make everyone else on Earth inherit sin, as a consenquence of this many will go to hell because being born here many will never (and have never) heard of Jesus(or if they did they dismissed, ignored,misinterpreted,diagreed with his teaching), therefore as a consenquence of what Adam and Eve did you are saying God will put people in a situation where he knows statistically most of his children will go to hell? Chance or no chance statistically most will be damned, forgivness or no most will still burn for eternity, because of what? because two people sinned?
Now this a tricky part, and what really has transpired, gets boiled down to We inherited sin from Adam and Eve but truth is, Sin, at its worst lasts only seven generations (Per Bible Standard), what we inherit is the consequence of the sins of our forbearers.
First and Foremost from Adam and Eve, we have inherited the knowledge of Good and Evil this maintained though all their offspring. So although we are Born Innocent as a infant does not possess full comprehension of Evil and Good while for the most part a Child possess an acute and often unspoiled comprehension of what is Good and Evil whereas that Line they know as a Child becomes more distorted as they grow into their culture. This is something that they (We all have) received from what Adam and Eve did. What transpires after that is of our own making.
Just as we would inherit possessions (House, Money, Status, Etc) from our forbearers, we also inherit what they have done to this world before us, both the Good and the Bad.
We did not get Oh, now your born, here is your starting dosage of Sin, (Abet, not all Christians think this way), but we still have to bear the consequence of what was done before us.
Now, doing Evil always seems to not only be easier, but also for many, more enjoyable (It is the having Evil done back to them that rots), this is our Sin Nature
IE: it is harder to wait to marriage to have Sex, when the opportunity to have sex with a willing partner presents itself before the marriage bed. Why? Because, well Sex feels Good, and attachment less sex seems to be far more pleasing then to have to pledge a lifetime commitment for it. Seems Simple enough right? But that is our sin nature, if we did not think that way, we would not be tempted so easy.
That is all it means, when people talk of a sin nature, that Sin is easy and enjoyable, and a by product of that, it becomes the preferred thing to do, so much so, that we all seem to be gravity towards doing sinful things.
As for Gods Forgiveness and Going to Hell, We need to trust that God is a Judge of Souls, an All knowing God that nothing slips by, that sees a person not as we see them, but as their God and Creator. As such, just as we place our own souls in Gods hands for Judgment, we also must believe that God will not let anyone go to Hell unjustly. This is where we need to also have Faith in Gods Judgment, that God knows more then we do, and that he has a plan for all of us. Jesus is our Savor.
Secondly, we also need to understand that people who have not received the Bible, or been given a chance to know what Sin is, are under a different set of Laws then those that have been exposed to Gods Laws. In this, we need to trust that God will never fail in his judgment.
For those that have heard and rejected, what more can be done? As humans our ability stops, as we should not convert by force or fear, but by love. I for one would respect a man who stood before God and said I saw your followers and wanted nothing to do with them, as opposed to a man that would stand before God and say Well you never showed yourself to me
Many things in our life we do not depend on our Logic for, and a Relationship is one of them. That is in the final round, what Christianity is, a Relationship, not a ritual of things to do to please God.
I hope I have provided you insight and answers to your questions.
I understand completely...Been struggling with similar questions also, trying to see how christian's and bibilical answers match up to a perfectly loving and compassionate God...It's been exceedingly difficult to harmonize them..without giving up
my sense of morality(ethics).
One of the major problems that erupts is that there are a great many Knee Jerk answers and Box God concepts that float around. For many, there is a personal link between them and God by means of their personal relationship that has taken years and even decades to develop and establish, and to put this comprehension into words fails many times, it would be like seeking to put works into a full relationship between a mother and child, there are such complexities that not only do words fail to grasp it, there is often just too much to even try and explain it all, with its vast amounts of nuances, and seemingly contradictory actions. God is not Simple, just as each of us, are not Simple.
The Fault might be in too much an attempt to place God into a Box that you can fully analyze, but, God is beyond us, and as such, even though our imagination is almost as vast as the universe itself, we need to concede that we could not fit the Creator of the Universe into something inside the universe. This is what I call a Box God syndrome, when people try to put God into a nice little package, but then fail to grasp what truly is, and how truly vast and complex, God.
I am not sure if I have provided you an answer to your dilemma, but I hope I have given you a starting point from where to begin your search.
Thanks for the answers everyone, but I think I found my own answer, especially Key and EmbracingHim- your posts shine of goodwill, its a rare thing, thankyou
Always an honor to Help and Provide, thank you for your kind words.
God Bless
Key
