(March 1, 2021 at 1:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 1, 2021 at 10:24 am)Mercyvessel Wrote: On the contrary, it (along with many other parts of Holy Scripture) are a selfless, unearned invitation for peace, instead of mandatory judgment resulting in destruction. Regardless of one's perception of the details... one must ask - who are the biggest beneficiaries of this arrangement? Wouldn't it be objectively expedient to investigate said invitation rather than summarily dismiss it to one's own detriment?
A huge human impediment to responding to GOD on His terms (and He is in fact the King Eternal with dominion over all things) - is pride and desire to have and do it "my way."
The Messiah says "Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it"
Humility, faith go a long way... we are human and honorably created in the image of GOD Himself, yet terrestrial "dust and ashes."
Nonsense. John 3:16 is a blunt message that anyone who doesn’t believe in Jesus is summarily condemned. It doesn’t matter whether you were a good person or what virtues you had. You can spend your life housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick. You can devote all of your energies to so-called ‘Christian principles’ (even though all of them pre-date Christianity) of mercy, charity and goodness. But none of that matters to God. But simply not believing in the divinity of Christ is enough to preclude you from salvation.
The greatest sin in Christianity is intellectual honesty, and John 3:16 shouts it out loud.
Boru
Your position is undermined by the fact that you/we/any reader or hearer of the Word of GOD (like Saul turned Paul, or better still - the thief on the cross), could have your/our spiritual eyes open before "the end" and come to truly trust in the Lord JESUS as our Substitute for your/our sins; not withstanding one's first reaction.
For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
See Romans 10:8-11
