(March 2, 2014 at 10:29 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: A couple quotes I read:
Jonathan L. Kvanvig: [C.S.] Lewis believes that the doors of hell are locked from the inside rather than from the outside. Thus, according to Lewis, if escape from hell never happens, it is not because God is not willing that it should happen. Instead, residence in hell is eternal because that is just what persons in hell have chosen for themselves.
Dave Hunt: We may rest assured that no one will suffer in hell who could by any means have been won to Christ in this life. God leaves no stone unturned to rescue all who would respond to the convicting and wooing of the Holy Spirit.
These seem to make sense.
Yet you don't really think that they do, or at least you are open to entertaining that idea, since you also wrote this:
(March 1, 2014 at 11:21 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: Atheist's what if God's just trying to make it seem like he doesn't exist to test our faith? :S
To consider that "God" is trying (and succeeding) to make it appear it doesn't exist to test your faith and that it is actively seeking "to rescue all who would respond" is another example of driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake - or as Orwell put it, doublethink (holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and believing them both). That way madness lies.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
