There is no Rapture coming
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Seems kinda harsh. I mean, if someone is a bit skeptical they roast in hell, not for a while, but eternity? Isn’t that kind of mean for God to do to his Children?
Another way to think about it is God is loving and God is Holy.
It’s not that God will administer punishment, but the fact that those who do not accept His love must be separated, eternally. God is Holy and just and therefore cannot accept anyone who has not been ransomed. The “hell” is the fact that without God’s love, those who reject God will have eternal suffering not because of God punishing them but rather because God will turn those over to their own sins. They reject God, they do not enjoy the benefit of His love and protection.
Thankfully, God extends the invitation to absolutely everyone to receive and accept His love through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who paid our ransom.
What about all those indigenous peoples living in the Americas before European explorers spread Christianity? Did he extend the offer to them too or were they SOL?
Great question and I don’t know is my official answer. There is scripture that reads like the answer is no and there is scripture that reads like the answer is yes. Worthy of study. What I do know is that God is wholly just so I would think He has a plan that is better than anything you or I could imagine. God also shows a pattern of constantly chasing after our hearts and minds.
Ransom? Who is this evildoer who holds us ransom? We should probably arrest and execute Him.
I wish he didn’t need to put so much child rape in his plan.
Strikes me as unjust.
In my world a just god would smite people before they raped children, since his omniscience makes what they’re about to do something he knows and his omnipotence could prevent, if he cared.
I'm not big on smiting but, yeah, why doesn't He protect the children - always and everywhere?
It's not about justice on earth. On earth it's our job to make alliterative t-shirts praising God after tragedies.
I agree that the things you mention are horrific. The world was perfect before sin entered. But God does care and has a plan to save us all (see The Holy Bible). If God wanted to stop a specific crime today, He could. But just keep in mind that when God comes, he is not ending one particular crime/sin but He is ending ALL of it.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes...The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria.
It’s a bit long to go into all the details, but people who didn’t have an opportunity to get to know about Christ and his sacrifice for mankind would be considered the “unrighteous”.
These individuals according to Jesus himself at John 5:28,29 would have an opportunity to be resurrected here on earth and get the chance to get to know God and his requirements .
So the short answer is no , they are not SOL. This would include groups like the native Americans etc…
Why would I believe god is righteous? Seems like a asshole to me? I would rather invest in a doctor saving me before god.
This is where the superiority of multi theistic religions shine. With a panoply of gods you can cover a range of emotions and better cover contradictions.
Who cares? It's a widely held Christian belief - both now and throughout history.
When you have to turn to parsing words across various translations and intuiting that the "true" meaning isn't what most people believe, you've already lost.
