The Gospel...Good News.


 

Is the English Gospel of the western world preached from the different denominated pulpits  "good news" that was announced at the birth of Jesus Christ? The beliefs of the followers of religion are completely arranged around their beliefs based on their interpretation...or I should say misinterpretation of the Bible. 

Projecting unrest, fear and torment on people by religious pulpiteers  who should be bringing them the good news of the gospel, not teaching them that the prison and punishment of hell is for eternity for all people who have not said the "sinner's prayer. People hearing the doctrine of religion's hell-fire grieve and lament over the fate of their departed children, parents and love ones; and they often show their grief by blaming religion's egoistical, retributive God of horror that religion projects Him as.  They ask if there is any hope . . .and the religionists based on their misinterpretation of the Bible, is obliged to answer that there is absolutely no hope. The heart rendering grief caused by this unbiblical doctrine torments people to no end and causes them yo go through "hell" on earth.

 The "good news" of the religious gospel brings what to people? Sorrow, broken spirits, fear, anxiety, unrest and grief that has no hope of comfort? Is this the good news of the gospel?  Was Jesus sent us into the world to bring people...news that their dead children and other family members are being tortured in hell with no hope of escape? Good News indeed. No wonder the Gospel has not the effect it had in the days of Acts! 

 There are those who claim that if we don't teach eternal hell, people will not turn to Christianity, or, even worse, some who are now "Christians" have said, "I wish there was no hell, then I could sin and not worry about the consequences." Wow...not saying much for the salvation he fear-mongers people to accept! This is like claiming that salvation is not not as satisfying as a life of sin and God must use fear to draw people to Himself. Imagine a man who insisted that he threatened a woman to get her to marry him because she can only be happy with him and if she does not marry him he will kill her. If a person did this we would say he is insane nut-case. And yet we turn around and claim that this is how the God...who is love...we serve behaves. And then say it is ok for Him to do it because He’s God, not man. 

 Such blasphemy against God should not be on the lips of believers. When you are living thinking that God will send people to suffer in hell forever, does it cause you to trust and love Him. We can make up all the "theological" reasoning in the world to explain why this is necessary or acceptable, but really, who would allow so much of humanity when they had no input in being born or where they are born, whether they have heard about Jesus or not to suffer in hell forever? Wouldn’t it be better if they were never born at all if it meant that so they were going to suffer the torments of hell fire for all eternity?

 Does hearing hearing this hell fire doctrine, help people be more, or less respective of our loving Father God?

 Jesus did not come to CONDEMN the people of the World or send to hell ...He came to bring them GOOD NEWS.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DO NOT FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLING OF YOURSELVES TOGETHER! by David Yeubanks

“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together" (Hebrews 10:25), is a common verse cited by Christians who believe that if you're not attending weekly meetings or plugged in a church denomination that you are somehow out of sync with Scripture and, for all practical purposes, "backsliding". Some refer to the out of church crowd as rebels, or the walking wounded and this verse is often given as the prescription. But is "attending church" really what the author of Hebrews had in mind here? YES THE BIBLE SAY’S NOT TO FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLING TOGETHER? NOTICE IT DOES NOT SAY DO NOT FORSAKE THE "ASSEMBLY" OR CHURCH BUILDING. First of all, it is essential that we understand the meaning of the word "church" as it is used in the Bible. These comments, while being historically and biblically sound, are not meant to suggest that Christians should not meet together, share fellowship, pray or preach the Word of God. If that is the conclusion
Read more

A Bloggers Take on "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and "Hell".

Image
HAPPY DADS AND THE HORRORS OF HELL by Jeff Turner Jonathan Edwards once said the following words: “Reprobate infants are vipers of vengeance, which Jehovah will hold over hell, in the tongs of his wrath, till they turn and spit venom in his face!” Elsewhere, Edwards asked the question: “Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell?” Now, a bit of clarification: Edwards is not referring to God when he speaks of the “believing father in Heaven”. Rather, he is speaking an earthly father who enters Heaven, while His children are sentenced to an eternity in Hell. One would assume that Edwards’ answer to this question would be something akin to, “Nay! And a thousand times nay!”. Unfortunately, his answer was as follows: “…it [the sight of his children in Hell] will increase rather than diminish his bliss.” To be honest with you, I’m not sure if I’ve ever read more demonic, and putrid words in all of my life. I have a level of respec
Read more

The Abusive Tool of Fear-Mongering.

Image
  Fear mongering is an abusive tool used by religion which cripples and limits one's spiritual growth to mature to the full stature of Christ. The fear mongering propaganda that is used as a means to get people saved speaks volumes about the quality of love used to try and scare people to become Christ followers. The scriptures declare that is is the “goodness of God that leads to repentance.” Another characteristic of  fear mongering believers is that they believe that natural disasters are God’s doing and are warnings or punishment for the sin of sinning people. Their sin consciousnesses has blurred their God consciousnesses to where they see God as the big bad wolf waiting to pounce on somebody for sinning. Natural disasters have happened at different times throughout history. Theses events have been used by money hungry fear-mongers to write books of impending doom, passed of as the gospel by using out-of-context scripture verses to validate the acceptance and sale of t
Read more