Isn’t Hell Cruel and how to reconcile that with the Loving God?  Why does God give humans free will?

Isn’t Hell Cruel? How to reconcile that with the Loving God?

Many people had said and are saying: “God, with His being omniscient, should NOT have given men free will because He knows that they will use it to rebel against Him that will result in them going to Hell eternally. He must  be a God who enjoys seeing people going to Hell?”

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First of all, GOD has no pleasure of seeing wicked people going to Hell. God repudiated the slander upon Him – that of taking pleasure in a sinner’s death.

Say unto them, “As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live:” Ezekiel 33:11a

“Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?” Ezekiel 18:23

“For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” Ezekiel 18:32

God says to each sinner, “Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?

The aforesaid implied that God is grieved that anyone should die, and also that his own turning is the only means of preventing so dreadful a doom. God saves men only with their concurrence; and will not force His ways to men.

You yourself will bear witness and take responsibility for your own death, as you act as if you believed yourself to have sound reasons for choosing death. If you have reasons they must be your own, and God asks you what they are.

He tells you most earnestly that you need not die because He wants to have you live, and because He has no pleasure at all in your death.

Do press home to your own heart this matter – put to you by your Maker – Why will you die?

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Would you rather have free will or not to have free will now?

A holy God may not tolerate sin. The attributes of HOLINESS, LOVE, JUSTICE, RIGHTEOUSNESS AND MERCY of GOD may not be separated. At the Cross of Calvary, where JESUS PAID the PENALTY of SIN, all the above attributes of GOD met.

14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:14 – 18

Note on verse 16, God says “WHOSOEVER”, that means ANYone.

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Know that God is good; and a good God is, and will be terrifying to the wicked.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;” Romans 2:8-9

GOD will have the eternal consciousness of having Himself done right, and of not being in any sense or degree to blame for the death of the wicked – when the smoke of their torments shall go up forever and ever, God will forevermore affirm that “no blood of the wicked”, is on His hand.

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Why does God give humans free will?

He created man for His glory and for His pleasure.

“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Revelations 4:11. 

“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:” Colossians 1:16 

God is a creative Being, and it gives Him pleasure to create. God is a personal Being, and it gives Him pleasure to have other beings He can have a genuine relationship with.

We are created to have a relationship with God.

Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever. ~ Westminster Shorter Catechism

Quote: No person, no experience, no drug, no success, no things, no possessions ..nothing is going to fill that aching hole in your heart that God created for himself. ~ Rick Warren Unquote.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Genesis 1:27

Being made in the image and likeness of God, human beings have the capacity to know God and consequently love Him, worship Him, serve Him, and fellowship with Him. God did not create human beings because He needed them. As God, He needs nothing. In all eternity past, He felt no loneliness, so He was not looking for a “friend.” He loves us, but this is not the same as needing us. If we had never existed, God would still be God, the unchanging One.

“For I am the LORD, I change not;” Malachi 3:6a

God was never dissatisfied with His own eternal existence. When He made the universe, He did what pleased Himself, and since God is perfect, His actions are always perfect. God does not make any errors and is at all times, fully in control.

God is Omnipotent – INFINITELY POWERFUL and able to do ALL things, Omnipresent – is EVERYWHERE present, and Omniscient – is ALL KNOWING – fully aware of ALL knowledge.

He wanted man to love Him willingly.  Free will, allows man to love God voluntarily. That’s why God gave us a free will, and not doing so, goes against reason, and is irrational.  God is perfectly logical and that’s why He saw it right to give man the freedom to choose for himself and He hoped that we would use it to give Him pleasure.

God gave man free will even if He knew it will cause problems through man’s wrong use of it because He has the solution to it … Jesus.

Jesus was the solution, God turned evil to good, by transferring all of man’s evil onto His beloved Son so He could pay for them. The chains of sin on us were broken because Jesus paid the full penalty of the sins of men.

RESULT or OUTCOME of free will!

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Romans 5:12

“Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.” Romans 5:18

That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:21

But God in His mercy prepared a way out, the only way out, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay the death penalty of sins, offered his blood for atonement of sins and became the one and only way to God. He is now the antidote or remedy from death.

This is NOW, a free will exercise. IF you chose to receive Jesus Christ, you will get eternal life, ELSE, IF you prefer to continue to reject Him, you will remain in your sins and never receive the remedy from death.

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” John 3:17

Recognising the complete sovereignty and holiness of God, we are astounded that He would take man and crown him “with glory and honour”

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.” Psalms 8:4-5

Why did God create us and gives us Free Will? God created us for His pleasure and so that we, as His creation, would have the pleasure of knowing Him for eternity.

• He made the universe – you may reign and share with Him.
• He created you for Him.

Enjoy God, our CREATOR, the KING of Kings and LORD of Lords for ever and ever. Amen

Christ Is Risen, He Is Risen Indeed !!!

‘But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him. ‘ Mark 16:6

 

Today it is March 25,  2016 AD (Anno Domini – in the year of the Lord, not ‘after death’) – this date and every day, testifies to all of us that Jesus once walked on planet earth more than 2 thousand years ago.

Good Friday commemorates the death by crucifixion of Jesus Christ at Calvary, before His resurrection three days later on Easter Sunday.

WHY must Jesus die for us?

The gospel reveals that God acts righteously in forgiving us; He does not ignore our sins, but takes care of them in Jesus Christ.  representational, God presented Jesus as a sacrifice for our forgiveness. Sin has consequences, and Jesus volunteered to suffer the consequences on our behalf. The cross demonstrates God’s love as well as His justice.

• “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

• “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10

• Jesus said in Luke 24:46 “Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,”

• ‘Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”) ” Galatians 3:13

• “ And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.” 1 John 2:2

• “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus became a curse on our behalf so we could escape the curse of the law, which is death. He became something He was not, so that we could become something we were not. He became sin for us, so that we might be declared righteous through Him. Because He suffered what we deserved, He redeemed us from the curse of the law. “The punishment that brought us peace was upon him.” Because He suffered death, we can enjoy peace with God.

• “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. Victory was won on the cross. By His death, “Jesus was able to “destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil” and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” (Hebrews 2:14-15). “

• “whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” Romans 3:25-26
•  ^“and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.”Acts 13:39
• For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.” Romans 1:17

Without Christ, a sinner is estranged – separated from God’s people, a stranger to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God. (Ephesians 2:12).

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