Monday, February 1, 2016

Does God send anyone to hell? Who deserves mercy?

When this topic is raised, people argue as if every person is relatively good and treated ungraciously by divine justice. They approach this topic from the preconceived idea that every person is a good person to some extent and deserve God's mercy. They argue from the position that every person has the right to God's mercy. This comes from the humanistic worldview we live in that everyone deserves to be treated with equality. The question is can we apply this thinking to God? This might be true from a human rights perspective, but is it true from a Biblical Worldview. Does God fall under the same rules or does He makes the rules according to whom He is? To argue like this means we judge God and hold Him accountable to the rules we make. God is measured by no one and is self-sufficient in Himself. He is good, holy, merciful and righteous all the time and, therefore, does not err in any of His choices. He is the only Being who never sins and in whom does not exist a spot of evil. If He does decide to give mercy to someone, it is not because that person deserves it. It is because God has chosen to show mercy. He is the standard of divine justice and mercy. He is judged by no one, but He judges everyone according to whom He is.

God sends no one to hell. People chose themselves to go to hell. God just upholds his laws and judges accordingly. Yet people chose deliberately to break his laws. Adam and Eve disobeyed God's law and was punished accordingly. Every human being thereafter followed suit. If you evangelize people you will experience the utter hardness of the human hard who refuses the gospel of grace. We plead with people to be reconciled with God but they deliberately chose hell. Adam and Eve chose hell above God. God do not send people to hell. Every single person that ends up in hell chose it deliberately even when warned. By his love and grace, God chooses to stop some in their tracks and turn them around because of their own accord no one will ever choose God. It is his right to choose on whom he will have mercy and whom he will leave to have it their way. Humanity deliberately blasphemed him and every single one deserves hell. If God leaves all of humanity to go on their way to hell, he is not at fault, but his love and mercy will be compromised. If he saves everyone, his divine justice is not satisfied and his holiness is compromised. If he saves some and allow others to continue on their way and have their choice, his love and holiness are both upheld (Rom. 9:22-23). It is his own prerogative who to save and who to let go (Rom. 9:18). He made it clear that it is his right to have mercy on whom he want and to allow others to harden themselves.

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