There are lots of questions about Christ and his existence, relevance, necessity and one of the most common is, “why should anyone be damned to Hell”. As people look around they see friends and loved ones who while they may not live for Jesus, they still seem like moderately good people, so why should they go to Hell?
The first thing we need to establish is that God has been letting people prove their evil nature for thousands of years. From the beginning of time people have been committing horrible acts with less temptation then we would like to think necessary. Riots are the perfect example of human nature, it starts out as civilized people congregating for a common purpose when one event chains into mass violence. The same people you work with, the same people you live next door to, stealing, raping, and beating each other. God has shown over the ages that people are all evil and all deserve death. (Romans gives a nice outline of this process if you want further reference) If we all deserve death then God could very well destroy all of us and be right in doing so. The prophet Amos was faced with the destruction of his people when God gave him a vision (Amos Chapter 7 verses 1-9) Amos was given a vision of God sending locusts to destroy all of Israel’s crops so the people would starve. Amos pleaded for God to spare them and so God said fine if not locusts then God gave Amos a vision of a great fire that even burned the sea. Again, Amos pleaded with God, and God said I won’t do that either. Finally Amos was given a vision of God standing next to a building that was built using a plumb line. “What’s a plumb line?”, you ask. Plumb is a construction term that means straight up and down. A plumb line is a string tied to a weight so that gravity makes the string “plumb” God was sanding next to a building and he was checking it with a plumb line. He then asked Amos, “What do you see” Amos said, ” A plumb line” God then told Amos I will test my people with this plumb line and no longer ignore their sins. A plumb line is perfectly straight or upright for our needs and a carpenter of that day used a plumb line and what ever the plumb line said was straight was straight. The only truly upright and just person to ever live was Jesus. in the same way when we get to the gates of heaven if Jesus says your upright then that’s it, you win. If not you’re garbage. This is why we call salvation, salvation and not judgement because all of us under judgement would be found evil and deserving of Hell. Therefore anyone who gets sent to Hell is deserving of Hell. But being saved is just that Jesus saving you from the Hell you deserve. So what can you do but take the free gift? Jesus died for you just take it. First tell Jesus that you understand that you’re a sinner and feel free to tell him what sins you’ve committed ( it doesn’t matter that he knows it’s about what you’ve done. Tell him anyway) next ask for forgiveness in the name of Jesus because Jesus died for us as a perfect lamb who could atone for all our sins. Next declare Jesus as the one and true living God and that you will serve him before anything else in this world. Now open your heart for the holy spirit to live inside of you. If you did this you need to find a bible believing church and get baptized.
Judgement is what we deserve, Grace is an act of love from God to the world.
DO NOT GO TO DAMNATION!
As far as damnation is concerned, many people think that it is not true. They deem it only an invented story that does not need to be taken seriously. They think that it is better not to think about it at all, because they will nevertheless see what really happens when they die: so why take bother one’s head with this issue in which no certain conclusion can be reached? They also discuss with pleasure many spiritual issues that are not essential in the salvation of their sole (female priests, whether God can create a stone so large He Himself cannot carry, etc). They perhaps try to dismiss the discussion about what happens after this life by thinking about these trivial issues.
But is damnation true after all? Is there life after death? Jesus – who spoke much about Heaven by saying, for example: “In my Father’s house are many mansions” (John 14:2) – also often spoke about damnation. He mentioned both places in his speeches, so we should think about whether they are true. How can anyone be 100% sure that the next verses are not true? They indicate that our acts are significant and how we live our lives is nothing but trivial. If we live our life in impenitence, we will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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