“God Wouldn’t Send Anyone to Hell”

Give Me an Answer Part 5Give Me an Answer Part 5July 11, 2010July 11, 2010

““A God of Judgment Simply A God of Judgment Simply Can’t ExistCan’t Exist””

Exodus 34:6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,

7maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished."

* “For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality.

*For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of man.

– C.S. Lewis

“ “A God of Judgment Can’t Be a A God of Judgment Can’t Be a God of Love”God of Love”

Psalms 58:11 Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."

““A Loving God Would Not A Loving God Would Not Allow Hell”Allow Hell”

Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you...

Hell is the trajectory of a soul, living a life with self at the center, forever.

Luke 16:24 He called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'

25"But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.‘

27"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

29"Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’

30"'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'

31"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

It is not a question of God ‘sending us’ to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.”

–C.S. Lewis

Romans 1:24 God gave them up to … their desires.

““I Believe in a God of Love”I Believe in a God of Love”

Romans 8:31 If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.