Today,
reply is to the charge that divine judgment is in error when sinners
are condemned to annihilation or to torment and the
second death. While those
living on the earth may receive benefit, grace, and privilege as
offspring, heirs, and the children of GOD, none are granted dominion
and consecrated righteousness above that of the divine fullness
(i.e., Deity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit).
All created beings and living creatures exist as expressions of
divine prerogative, eternal purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD;
and the living can not make excuses or justify their continued
existence in opposition to sacred law and person. Divinity is
challenged to provide justification for the continued existence of
those who have betrayed divine accord, covenant relationship with
divinity, and the sacred imperatives of divine being. It is written:
Isaiah 45: 18, King James Version (KJV): 18 For thus saith the
LORD
that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made
it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it
to be inhabited: I am
the LORD;
and there is
none else. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public
forum on Religion & Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous”
(no profile information shared) posted the following:
How
do Christians justify the idea that all non-believers are going to
hell?
I'm
aware this is not something all (or probably even most) Christians
believe in, but for those who do: do you really see non-believers as
"deserving" of eternal suffering? How would you sleep at
night with this philosophy?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing
that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made
with hands; Neither is worshipped with men’s
hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life,
and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations
of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined
the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That
they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and
find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we
live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets
have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are
the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like
unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s
device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed
a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts
17: 24-31, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Divine Fullness Includes Wrath (02/23/2020); That Not
Of Yourselves (08/13/2019); That GOD Is Judge (11/01/2018); The
Elimination of Death? (05/13/2018); How Are We Justified?
(03/05/2018); The Place of Torment? (08/21/2017); Called, Justified,
and Glorified? (01/08/2017); Damnation And The Cross? (03/06/2016)
“Anonymous”,
the elimination of mankind by death is not sufficient to eliminate
sin and its consequences. As a result of Adam’s
transgression against divine law, and mankind becoming subject to
death, among Christian believers, justification is a sacred process
performed by divine spirit that permits the continued existence of
mankind, and their recovery from sin. Divine fullness (divinity; the
Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) who are the origin and
source of all that exists and has life does not have to justify their
existence and works to finite created beings and living creatures.
The operations of sin promote nonexistence, and a return to the
conditions of preexistence that include chaos, confusion, and
movement without direction. The Creation that has been put forth by
divinity is a material expression from operations of spirit that
appear as sacred law, mechanical process, natural law, the frameworks
of time and space, and much more. Christian believers are to
acknowledge that the process and substance of GOD is a fullness of
spirit matter that has put forth the spheres of life and all they
contain, all eternal purpose, and all that has godly value.
Inseparable aspects of the divine makeup are to exist within the
awareness and self-will (willpower) of mankind. Included are
balance, faith, forbearance, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness,
oneness without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
As the origin and source for the sacred law and divine order that
establish the universe, divinity exercises accountability, authority,
commitment, impartial judgment, divine prerogative, and sovereign
will. While GOD does not respond as subject to the desire and will
of any greater being or power, mankind has been put forth as one of
many created beings and living creatures whose abilities, nature,
properties, and traits have been predetermined by GOD as the Creator.
Man is to display the image of GOD, and is to resemble, reflect, and
reveal the character and likeness of Jesus Christ. Consider again
the following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from
the music ministry of Dietrick Haddon:
(1.)
Isaiah 51: 12-13, King James Version (KJV): 12 I, even I,
am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou
shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of
man which shall be made as grass; 13 And forgettest
the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the
heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared
continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he
were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
(2.)
Isaiah 55: 7-11, KJV: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD,
and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth
not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and
bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and
it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
(3.)
Romans 8: 33-35, KJV: 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God’s elect? It is God
that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ
that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For
example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YfMZ4_JQI
)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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