Post by Crazy Christian on Jun 13, 2007 4:00:56 GMT 1
ADMIN'S NOTE: I'm kinda christian. But I don't agree with this. I'll keep it here though. Personally I rank Jesus right above Socrates and those other wiseguys.
Oh, and thanks for the first ever thingie on this page not by me ;D
Do you think that you’re a good enough to enter Heaven? Do you think God agrees?
If so, then answer these questions honestly and carefully:
1. Have you ever told a lie? Even if it was a “white lie”, exaggerating the truth to make a point(like saying there’s a billion bees instead of a lot of them in a swarm you’ve just seen) or half-truth. ANYTHING not 100% truth IS A LIE, and all liars will go to the Lake of Fire(Revelation 21:8).
2. Have you ever stolen anything? Regardless of the value of the item, even a 5 cent piece of gum from a gas station.
3. Have you ever used God’s name as a curse word, to express disgust, or in any other way used His name lightly or irreverantly? Like, “God, this sucks.” “Jesus Christ!” That’s blasphemy, and God warns that He won’t hold blasphemers guiltless. Also, not giving God the glory for your times of success and taking the credit for yourself is a form of blasphemy, and is also a form self-worship, which is Idolatry, which God warns will be punished with the Lake of Fire(Revelation 21:8).
4. Have you ever been jealous over what someone else had, had an insatiable desire for something(just gotta have more and more), or wanted something to the point of going into debt or doing wrong to get it? That is called covetousness, and the Bible says in Colossians 3:5 that covetousness is a form of Idolatry, and God warns that idolaters will go to the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:8)
5. Have you ever hated anyone? God sees hatred as murder. See 1st John 3:15.
6. Have you ever looked at another person with lust? God sees that as adultery. See Matthew 5:28.
7. Have you kept God first all your life and loved Him above all else? Psalm 14:2-3 that all have turned aside and become corrupt, which means that NO ONE has kept the First Commandment. So it was already determined from the beginning that you would be guilty.
So, if on Judgement Day, God judges you based on the 10 commandments, do you think you’re going to be found innocent or guilty?
Well, you say, “I’ve done more good things than bad in my life”. That doesn’t matter. If you were in a trial of court, the Judge would punish you on the basis of breaking the law, and the fact that the law demands justice. Your good deeds wouldn’t mean anything.
By the same token, God’s law still requires that a penalty be paid. Good deeds can’t pay the debt.
However, what if during that trial, what if someone you didn’t even know came into the court room and took the punishment for you so that you could be set free from the penalty of the crime?
That’s what Jesus Christ did for you when He died on the cross for your sins, taking your punishment for you so that you could be forgiven and set free from sin and God’s wrath. Your part is to turn from your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Don’t put this off, as you don’t know what the future holds for you(Proverbs 27:1). There are probably many people who have put off coming to Jesus Christ who are now screaming, wailing, and gnashing their teeth in hell right now because they didn’t take the opportunity to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
If you want to make a decision to accept Jesus Christ as the atonement for your sins, then sincerely pray this prayer:
“God, I admit that I am a sinner and that I need you. I realize that my good works will not save me. Right now, I turn from my sins, and I put my 100% trust in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Please forgive me of all my sins and cleanse me from them. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.” If you just prayed that prayer, and sincerely meant it, then you’ve been made whiter than snow and forgiven of your sins. To start out your Christian life, you need to pray to God everyday, read your bible every day, and get into a good Bible-teaching Church.
Now, God's grace isn't so that you can just turn around and do your old sins with a blanket slip license to just indulge in sin all you want and go to Heaven, because that isn't the case.
Proverbs 28:13 says "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and FORSAKETH them shall have mercy."
So it isn't enough to just confess your sin and ask God to forgive you. You have to forsake that sin and try sincerely not to do it anymore. God can tell if you're sincere in asking for forgiveness, or if you're just looking for a way by which you can sin and get by with it. There's no such way, and if you keep indulging in sin, thinking that you can keep asking God to forgive you while you keep wallowing in the mud of sin, you're only fooling yourself. However, if you ask God to forgive you of that sin and are serious about turning from it, then you will receive God's mercy.
God doesn't leave Christians to fend for themselves and find out for themselves if they've sinned, as He sends the Holy Spirit to live in them, who will in turn prick their conscience(you can call it "feeling bad", if you will) when they have sinned(kind of like a "sin detector", if you will, to let them know that they have sinned and need to repent of it), and if they turn from it and ask God's forgiveness, God forgives them. If the Christian decides He's going to live in sin, God will discipline the Christian at first and do things to get his attention, but if the Christian decides he wants nothing more to do with Jesus Christ and is going to love in sin, in spite of God's goodness and mercy, and in spite of God's discipline, then God turns them over to their sin, and they lose their salvation because Ezekiel 3:20 says
"Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand."
So, that means that a Christian can lose his righteous standing before God if he turns his back on God to seek him no more and insists on sinning after God disciplines him(note the stumbling block). I'm not saying that salvation is maintained by good works, because it's not. It's not gained by good works, and not maintained by good works. It's maintained by continuing to follow Jesus Christ and when you sin, you repent of it, turn from it, and ask God to forgive you and give you the strength to resist the temptation the next time you're tempted to do it.
If you refuse to accept Jesus Christ as Savior and die without accepting him as Savior, then you’ll end up in
A PLACE CALLED THE LAKE OF FIRE!
God originally made Hell for Satan and his band of Demons(Satan and his demons are former angels who turned against God, so God kicked them out of heaven), not for us humans, and God doesn’t want us to go there. But, if you don’t accept Jesus’ offer of Salvation, then Hell is where you will go. God takes no pleasure in this, but this is YOUR CHOICE. You might say “God wouldn’t send anyone to hell”. Your “god” wouldn’t send people to burn in the Lake of Fire for eternity because your “god” doesn’t exist. It’s a figment of your imagination. That’s called Idolatry, and God warns that all idolaters will have their part in the Lake of Fire(Revelation 21:8)
Here’s what The Lake of Fire is like:
1. THE LAKE OF FIRE IS A REAL PLACE! IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU BELIEVE IN HELL OR NOT! IT’S STILL THERE AND YOU’RE STILL GOING IF YOU DON’T ACCEPT JESUS AS SAVIOR!
2. THE LAKE OF FIRE is a place where you will burn forever and ever in a blazing fire. Your suffering will NEVER end, and it NEVER stops. You will never get even one NANOSECOND of rest from the pain. Revelation 14:11 says that “…and they have no rest day nor night…”, which means that your torment will go on forever and ever.
3. You will wail, weep, and gnash your teeth over the simple fact that accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and then faithfully following Him no matter(because if you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and later on decide to turn away from Jesus Christ to follow Him no more, then you lose your salvation) what would have kept you from this awful place of never ending pain, suffering, agony, and regret.
4. You won’t even get a DROP OF WATER to ease your pain(Luke 16:24). Nothing. Your pain is NEVER eased. NEVER. You will remain in mind-numbing thirst throughout eternity.
5. You will hear the blood-curdling screams of the other tormented billions who are in the Lake of Fire with you, screaming for mercy, which in hell, you will NEVER get. Because you rejected God’s mercy when He offered it in this life, you will suffer God’s never-ending wrath.
6. You will suffer MENTAL torment, as you remember your life on Earth and all the good things on Earth that you took for granted, such as smiling faces you once knew, beautiful sunsets, rolling hills, the people who loved you, and will weep with appalling sadness and anguish that you will NEVER again experience or see any more blessings. No more love, no more beautiful scenes, no more smiling faces. Only regret, anguish, agony, thirst, and extreme torment as you burn and burn, forever in the Lake of Fire.
7. Also, it’s important that you understand WHO will be in the Lake of Fire with you, if you go there. Those people in the Lake of Fire with you will be drunkards, murderers, thieves, homosexuals, whoremongers, adulterers, hypocrites, rapists, idolaters, Satanists, witches, people who mess with magic and other forms of sorcery, which God says is an abomination to Him(Deuteronomy 18:9-12), and in addition to this, there will be liars, greedy people, swindlers, among other people who will be in this awful place of torment, begging for mercy and never getting it.
8. You will remember the times that people warned you about the torments of hell and you chalked it off, saying that you’d get to it later or that you didn’t need God. You will regret for all eternity those moments, wishing you would have turned to Jesus Christ. And you’ll be plagued with the realization that it’s too late.
So, you need to get right with God now.
www.livingwaters.com/various/science/ (Just in case you don’t believe this, here’s some scientific facts in the Bible for you)
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