The Ultimate Proof of God's Love

THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF GOD’S LOVE

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“You Bible-thumping Christians must be crazy! You say Hell proves God’s love. It proves just the opposite. Love doesn’t sent people to an eternal torture chamber. Love forgives. Love reforms. Love restores. People are good. They just need a little guidance and opportunity. Besides, evolution has disproved God and all that Bible nonsense.”

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Many people think this way today: they claim there’s no God, no absolute truth. So we are free to live any way we like. In our chaotic, insecure, violent, sex-sated world, nothing makes sense. But if we put our unproved skeptical assumptions aside, we can see how the biblical teaching that Hell makes better sense. Consider these points.

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Hell Assures Us of Free Choice and Immortality.

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When Adam, our first father, ignored the tree of life and chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he chose a world of good and evil. His descendents acquired his sinful nature preferring self to God. We are free then to reject God’s loving invitations and warnings, shake our fist at Heaven; insist upon our way until death. Our own decision decides our destiny. God doesn’t send us to Hell; we chose it ourselves and God lets us have our way. God can’t force us to love and obey him—that’s rape. Unless we’re robots, neither environment nor heredity annuls our ability to make contrary choices even to reject God and Heaven. And God loves us enough to tell us the truth.

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Many persons misunderstand what Hell is all about: Hell glorifies our Creator. For it proves God’s ultimate control, His truth, His justice, His love, and His moral rightness. True justice means ungrateful, unresponsive rebellious sinners lose all things held dear in life. They trade cool breezes, loved ones, beautiful scenes and happy times for unending darkness, fiery wrath, weeping, wailing, gnashing of teeth—that’s a painfully ugly picture of eternal torment. All the while, the righteous shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Mt. 8:12; 13:43).

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Hell Shows God Cares About Injustice and Human Abuse.

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God knows our hearts, feels our pains, hears our cries, and sees our tears. God’s deeply concerned about our plight. God’s patient, not desiring any should perish, but that all come to repentance. Abused wives, raped children, aged persons robbed of their income, murdered persons, all suffer in this life. But God will correct all such injustices. Unlike finite, biased, fickle, bribable human judges, God alone knows our every thought, word and deed. He alone is just or absolutely fair.

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Interactive intelligent design in living things testifies to the infinite knowledge of our Creator. Guilt of conscience in every person points to ethical law and a Lawgiver. But we often ignore and suppress them. The all-knowing, biblical, ethical God revealed in history alone is the foundation for truth, justice and humane treatment. Godless freedom’s consequences compel chaos, corruption, and contempt for life. See it in abortion, suicide, homosexuality, euthanasia. The Bible proverb is indisputable “All those who hate me (God) love death (Prov. 8:36).   

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Hell Gives Life Ultimate Meaning.

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Our choices have consequences to hurt or help our fellow man and us. Believing that God will justly decide our eternal reward or punishment makes all of life purposeful. Our every act takes on meaning, daily and eternally. The world is no meaningless repetitive cycles, but from beginning to end is fulfilling God’s great plan. And the outcome will vary in degree with each person since we’re all different and behave differently. God’s Word tells us what He approves and disapproves. It lights our path, makes us accountable, and gives us the sense of fulfillment, of hope.     

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But atheistic materialism denies everything spiritual—human souls, God, angels, revelations. It gives no authoritative guide, only conflicting, finite, fallible, fickle feelings. We’re responsible to no one but ourselves, to nothing but our desires. We can plead expediency—that is treating others good with hope they will us. But when life frustrates us, our future seems hopeless; fear and guilt paralyze us, then we think why not lie? Why not steal? Why not murder? We’re unlikely to be caught. Besides, the only law among us animals is survival of the fittest. Where’s love now? A nonexistent Hell encourages moral depravity, lawlessness and excludes love; but Hell’s reality makes ethical choices, love, joy, fulfillment and Heaven possible.

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Hell Makes Heaven Possible.

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 God’s holiness excludes sin. “There shall by no means enter it (Heaven) anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of life (Rev. 21:8; 1 Cor. 6:9-10). Unrepentant sinners who hate God and despise righteousness would quickly corrupt Heaven. Like Judas, the wicked have their kind of place quarantined from the righteous. Hell’s not the external torture chamber skeptic’s claim; its inner torment caused by each sinner’s degree of guilt, loss and shame (Mt. 10:15; 11:22-24: Heb. 10:29). And God rewards all who come to love Him and His way (Rev. 21:4-7).

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As long as God and Heaven exist, Hell exists—there’s no annihilation of the wicked (Mt. 24:46; Rev. 21:10). No maggots exist in Hell. Undying worms in the unquenched fire are persons useless to God, destructive of His kingdom, forever subject to His wrath (Jn. 3:36). Worms are used as a term of contempt (Job 25:6; Ps. 22:6; Isa. 66:24). God doesn’t create us free to annihilate us for bad choices. That would be destroying God’s image in us. And existence is better than nonexistence or nothing. God regretfully lets God haters have their own way separate from Him. 

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Hell Is Avoidable through Faith in the Sinner’s Savior.

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Complexity and design in all living things point to a God of infinite intelligence. Our guilty consciences point to an ethical God. In Jesus Christ, God took on a human body and nature. He lived among us a sinless life, demonstrated His deity by fulfilled prophecies and miracles, died in our place to pay for our sin and arose from the dead. Jesus said that if we don’t believe his claim to be God we will die in our sins; that’s conscious unending torment in Hell (John 8:24). Jesus is living visible proof of God’s promise of eternal life and the warning of torment in outer darkness.

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Let’s not be deceived about the existence and nature of Hell, or about our sin before a perfect God and our rejection of the Savior that can save us from its darkness and torments (I Cor. 6:9-10). It’s your choice: the pleasures of ungodly sin for a season, or the joys and fulfillment with a loving Lord forever. Say YES to Jesus and become a good news messenger doing your best to serve your Maker, Redeemer, Owner, and Judge. Link my blog to your computer and share it with friends. Thank U. God bless you and your ministry.

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