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Old 02-05-2004, 08:31 PM
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God does not take pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezek 18:23). Like the prodigal son’s father, He wants everyone to turn from evil and live (Lk 15:11-24; Ezek 18:31-32; 33:11). Out of His love, He even gave His own Son to us so that we may have eternal life (Jn 3:16-17) and see the truth so that we turn away from evil, but in the end it is our own choice. While God offers everyone love and forgiveness, he does not force His love on those who do not want it. Because He loves us, He wants us to be free. We are given free choice to accept or deny God’s love. God does allow everyone to go to heaven, but not everyone chooses heaven. If a person chooses to sin and refuses to repent, he choose to reject God’s love. By rejecting God’s love, he chooses hell because hell in essence is the absence of God’s love. There is no other choice, since the only place where God’s love does not exist is hell. Fearing hell and its consiquences has nothing to do with not having free will. Some of us fear prison or even execution, but we still sin by stealing and murder. It is our choice to steal or kill or to sin, no one makes us do it. To sum it up, we choose our own destiny. God wants us to live and to not be punished, but it is in our hands not His.
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