Re: Spirituality and Belief crisis...help!
Hi!!
Do no be afraid of any punishement or hell . Even though you or me are not perfect God loves you and me and everybody. Nobody is perfect. WE can be struggling with many different problems and weakeness and sins. God understands that and LOVES everybody, specially because of their weaknesses.
There is a huge difference between the sinners that are talked about in the bible and any normal common person like you and me.
Jesus died for all of us. He died for Love. It means for all the sins, even the worse.
Why the bible talks about some going to hell? What is that hell? Because there are some people that even though are given a lot of opportunities they have chosen many times to reject God. They prefer to reject even any love, and prefer to take advantage of that situation and behave in a way that hurts maybe millions of people. You can see how some few persons have created wars, diseases, death for years on earth. For example there was a revolution on Camboya where millions where tortured, and millions where exposed to hunger, disease and pain for years and the consequences will last for decades. Why? Just for the lust of power and control of few leaders. Those leaders did not have any respect for life.
Can hey go to hell? Who knows. But I think that even they have the opportunity to go to heaven if they repent from what they have done and are willing to see God. However it is possible that even then, some of them do not want to repent and see God. Where are they going?
The hell is to be far away from God. The fire and all the other stuff means the suffering of that soul that cannot see the light of God.
But that is a choice people has made by themselves many many times, and rejected the opportunities.
But believe to everybody here saying Love is God because is true!!
Do not be afraid of your common life sins. Jesus died for all of them. He loves you so much and he knows all our weaknesses. He wants us to have life and have it in abundance. Do not concentrate on the negative things of the message. Concentrate on the beauty and love of God and feel his love.
Do not be afraid of God. Trust him and you will see how life gets brighter and lighter.
Blessings
Zule