Thursday, July 31, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
j
I really don't have any answers, and I definitely don't want to just repeat Sunday School info about why Hell exists. But I do want to say something that a friend said about Hell and sin and God. He said that God is going to do the things that bring him the most glory.
If God made everyone believe in him so that everyone could go to Heaven, then that would just be normalcy. There's no glory to be found in the norm.
But this response still comes up short of answering why we have to innocently be born into sin; why God allows people to be born knowing they're going to Hell; or why God had to allow sin to happen in the first place.
Yeah, I really don't have any answers. And I really don't want to say that a lot of this comes down to faith. But a lot of this comes down to faith.
If God made everyone believe in him so that everyone could go to Heaven, then that would just be normalcy. There's no glory to be found in the norm.
But this response still comes up short of answering why we have to innocently be born into sin; why God allows people to be born knowing they're going to Hell; or why God had to allow sin to happen in the first place.
Yeah, I really don't have any answers. And I really don't want to say that a lot of this comes down to faith. But a lot of this comes down to faith.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
hell
first and foremost, if there are a lot of superfluous j's in this post i apologize. my keyboard is freaking out, i will try and keep it to a minimum but i make no promises. that being said lets go.
well second and not as foremost, its been a long time since ive been on here. ive not been a great blogger, and its a shame bc i feel like ive had a lot to say but i just havent said it. anyway im here now and i hope we as a group pick up the slack bc i enjoy you all very much.
ok now for real lets go. so yesterday jwe had this like community mega group gathering. its all the little community groups meeting up and coming together, we are doing it for the whole summer, anyway we are going through tim kellers most recent book, the reason for God. its pretty good, but jyesterday the chapter that we looked at tried to answer the question "how could a loving God send people to hell?" and well i just wasnt satisfied. just completely unsatisfied with how we reasoned it away, and still talked about God being so loving. see have a hard time saying that God truly loves the unregenerate man. its particularly hard coming from the reformed perspective that i come from, and really cant get away from. i dont know totally where you all stand on this stuff, im pretty sure tian and i would could from different perspectives, probably josh too, timmy and trey not sure, anyways that doesnt matter bc we are talking about me. if i believe that it is God who saves, God who puts tjhe desire in man, it is God who chooses man, not vice versa, then how can God love those whom he does not choose? he has the cure, he could save, but he elects to not save. and it honestly got me mad yesterday. i was mad and frustrated and i just didnt know what to do. i felt like God is sitting there looking at someone dying of cancer and he has the cure and he jjust is saying, nah dont think ill save that one. dont think ill pursue them. its not something that makes me not believe anymore, or lose hope, but it jjust makes me mad, and i dont understand. and then i realized that i do the same thing all the time that i was criticizing God for doing. i at least intellectually have the information that can save my friends souls. i know what they need to know. i could tell them. i could love them. but i dont. i dont do it, and i felt like such a hypocrite. it was such a shocking epiphany, i literally didnt see it coming at all. i thougth i had a good case. i thought God would just say to me, hey trust me, trust me. and ultimately thats what i need to do, trust when i dont understand, tjrust that God is good. i guess i didnt expect to get called out like that. i feel like God had enough of my whining, and said hey how about you. look at yourself.
i feel like this thought is incomplete still...i dont think ive come all the way around, but i feel like its important enough in my life that i wanted to write about it...jmaybe ill learn more soon and post that too. but for now, this is what i got...
well second and not as foremost, its been a long time since ive been on here. ive not been a great blogger, and its a shame bc i feel like ive had a lot to say but i just havent said it. anyway im here now and i hope we as a group pick up the slack bc i enjoy you all very much.
ok now for real lets go. so yesterday jwe had this like community mega group gathering. its all the little community groups meeting up and coming together, we are doing it for the whole summer, anyway we are going through tim kellers most recent book, the reason for God. its pretty good, but jyesterday the chapter that we looked at tried to answer the question "how could a loving God send people to hell?" and well i just wasnt satisfied. just completely unsatisfied with how we reasoned it away, and still talked about God being so loving. see have a hard time saying that God truly loves the unregenerate man. its particularly hard coming from the reformed perspective that i come from, and really cant get away from. i dont know totally where you all stand on this stuff, im pretty sure tian and i would could from different perspectives, probably josh too, timmy and trey not sure, anyways that doesnt matter bc we are talking about me. if i believe that it is God who saves, God who puts tjhe desire in man, it is God who chooses man, not vice versa, then how can God love those whom he does not choose? he has the cure, he could save, but he elects to not save. and it honestly got me mad yesterday. i was mad and frustrated and i just didnt know what to do. i felt like God is sitting there looking at someone dying of cancer and he has the cure and he jjust is saying, nah dont think ill save that one. dont think ill pursue them. its not something that makes me not believe anymore, or lose hope, but it jjust makes me mad, and i dont understand. and then i realized that i do the same thing all the time that i was criticizing God for doing. i at least intellectually have the information that can save my friends souls. i know what they need to know. i could tell them. i could love them. but i dont. i dont do it, and i felt like such a hypocrite. it was such a shocking epiphany, i literally didnt see it coming at all. i thougth i had a good case. i thought God would just say to me, hey trust me, trust me. and ultimately thats what i need to do, trust when i dont understand, tjrust that God is good. i guess i didnt expect to get called out like that. i feel like God had enough of my whining, and said hey how about you. look at yourself.
i feel like this thought is incomplete still...i dont think ive come all the way around, but i feel like its important enough in my life that i wanted to write about it...jmaybe ill learn more soon and post that too. but for now, this is what i got...
Monday, July 7, 2008
Damnation on campus
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Seriously. Does this make sense?
Seriously. Does this make sense?
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