tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380988010128963744.post7296525116959317198..comments2023-10-25T08:22:27.803-05:00Comments on One More Ladybug: The Reason for God ~ Chapter Five ~ How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?Connie Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03105757409356865785noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7380988010128963744.post-13463999473583904102013-06-13T10:52:50.559-05:002013-06-13T10:52:50.559-05:00Thanks for sharing...that was interesting. Tim Ke...Thanks for sharing...that was interesting. Tim Keller is a smart guy...I've only read his book on idolatry though which was really good. What baffles me more than the reality of a God who judges...is a humanity that claims to stand in judgement of that God. Created beings thinking they have wisdom beyond their Creator (hasn't that been the lie of Satan since the beginning?). There are so many people who claim to be Christians and yet deny, edit, and erase a majority of what God has revealed about himself in the Bible. People act as if Jesus was some pacifist sheep hugging hippie who's greatest pursuit was "social justice" when his pursuit was to shed his blood to redeem a lost people. The reality is Jesus talked a LOT about hell...so if we claim to be Jesus followers we can't only admire his actions but we have to believe his words. Of course it's a subject that is difficult and our modern human sensibilities and limited understanding can struggle with it...but placing ourselves as moral judges over God and redesigning him to suit our most modern preferences? yikes. That's exactly what much of the "church" has done though. We can't understand God's incredible mercy and grace until we comprehend our own depravity and the reality that we deserve the opposite of his extended hand of friendship. Even our "good works" are tainted by our own pride and sin...Jesus says only God is good. Our good deeds are but filthy rags compared to God's holiness. We have been rescued, redeemed, and regenerated not because we are such great people,....but because of the actions of a great God. Out of that overflow of joy and gratitude comes the love and service to others. The longer I live, the more atrocities I see, and the more heinous sin I witness the more I understand God's wrath...what still blows my mind is his patience and grace that reaches down to a sinner and makes him a son. A God who, instead of flicking this sin twisted world out of his universe, entered into it, served his enemies, and shed his own blood. That is love.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14317610661817876605noreply@blogger.com