RE: How long will Christians wait for Jesus?
February 23, 2017 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2017 at 11:34 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 22, 2017 at 12:52 pm)SteveII Wrote: But threats and scare tactics have kept people in the church for centuries. To say it another way, avoiding Hell is not the goal being preached, avoiding Hell is one of the benefits from doing the right thing (choosing God and living as proscribed)...If a church or a person uses Hell as a threat or scare tactic, then that is on them and not the intent of NT Christianity.
It seems to me that people do not accept Our Lord and Savior as fire insurance. They want deliverance in the here and now. They want to be free from the bondage of sin - alcoholism, porn addiction, worry, depression, empty materialism, anger, self-conceit - and a deep seated longing to find redemption by helping others.
