This Thursday I will once again try and convince some people that God really is who Jesus said He was. It’s amazing the impact that RELIGION has had on perverting the historial, the real, JESUS! There just seems to be this paradigm among Christians, especially fundamentalists, that life needs to be FAIR. And in order that everyone is treated fairly, what is implied, and probably not understood, but there nonetheless is that there’s no room for GRACE!
If you’re a bad person and you don’t repent this mean God delights in sending you to hell with no chance of of a get out of jail free card- ever! Where do yuou see Jesus depicting that as this Abba Father He loved so much?
You don’t. It’s not there.
You can only find it in many of the denominations.
John, the revelator, and others kept reminding us of the goodness of God. I John 4:16 is just one of the many “God is LOVE” statements. And how do the right wing fundamentalists, with their high value on MORALS (more so than on God or Jesus most often) miss this? Everlasting torture is totally unacceptable and intolerable from a MORAL point of view because as Clark Pinnock said, “An eternal HELL pictures God as a bloodthirsty monster who maintains an everlasting Auschwitz for His enemies. Who can love a God like that?”
Few indeed!
But thankfully that is NOT who God is. God IS LOVE!
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