Terrible news! A man was burnt to death the other day. Apparently he was asleep when the fire broke out. He had absoloutely no idea that his life was in danger so he kept on sleeping. But the really sad thing is that his next door neighbour saw the fire but didn't do anything about it even though he was a firefighter!
When they asked the firefighter why he didnt put out the fire or go and rescue him he said 'My friend doesn't like it when I wake him up, and he certainly doesnt like getting wet, so I neither woke him nor turned on the hose."
The Firefighting chief is having serious words with the firefighter and his future is uncertain. The firefighter chief said that it is his duty to put out fires whether people want him to or not. He said that silly excuses like that are dangerous and irresponsible...
If you knew someone was about to burn for eternity would you do something about it or are you too scared to wake them up and put out the fire? Whats more important to you?
Be merciful to those who doubt; snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.
(Jude 22-23)
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Man Burnt to Death : Firefighter Refused to Act
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Let's take this to a logical conclusion. Would you not be justified in abducting people at gun point and torturing them into belief? The finite amount of pain inflicted would be nothing compared to their alternative of eternal suffering in Hell. And think of their eternal gratefulness to you when you meet again in Heaven.
Here is an example of bible teaching you don't find in churches.
Why do I learn more about the bible and the Christian faith from agnostics and atheists than I do from attending churches?
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cmUCjnCgE
If you want to get logical then no you couldnt do that becasue 1) That would be sinful 2) people would say they repent even though they wouldnt mean it.
Jesus wants true believers, thats why we love people, thats why we tell people about the grace of God and show them the grace of God by loving them all the time no matter what...
Is there a reason you comment on these blogs?
as for the vid, cant access vid on this computer, will need to check another time...
James i love your parables!
It makes blogging more interesting i reckon. Not that your blogs are ever boring ;)
and david i was just wondering.. Do you do anything else but comment a heap of peoples blogs. It just seems really sad. But thats just me =)
Gun-point eh? That reminds me of a story I once heard about these 2 guys wearing balaclavas and carrying guns that went into a chruch service one day fired a couple of shots, to get people's attention, and then shouted, 'If you are willing to die for your faith you will stay BUT anyone who is willing to say they don't believe Jesus is God can leave.' Many people left and onle a few remained, the men took of their balaclavas and said, 'Right, now we're left with the true believer's tell us about Jesus.' I like that story and we must be willing to put our faith and our belief that we must save souls ahead of our own comfort and life. I hope I never let someone go to hell just to save face.
Answering a tough question in a pluralistic world. The Biblical teaching about hell creates a significant stumbling block for unbelievers. In a world of increasing pluralism and relativism, the question “how can a loving God sends people to hell?” rudely exposes the Bible’s “scandal of particularity.” Christians must be able to response with a thoughtful, and careful answer.
“Why did God create people whom He knew would suffer forever in hell?” When faced with such question, a Christian must clarify the difference between the problem of hell and the problem of evil. They are not the same. According to the Bible, the problem of hell is not an inexplicable problem but the just punishment for sin. Evil may go unexplained, hell does not. Hell is always the exercise of God's righteous justice. Although logical, this introduces another problem that may confound unbelievers: the problem of guilt.
There are two main reasons the contemporary world ignores and repudiates the biblical teaching on guilt. The first reason is the rise of secular humanism. Mankind, according to the average citizen in the post-enlightenment society, is basically good. If most people are basically good, God's stance towards his creation should be fundamentally one of acceptance and not justice. As the idea of sin erodes more and more from our culture, so will the concept of guilt, and without guilt, the idea of hell will become nothing more than abrasive rhetoric. In light of this disappearance of guilt and sin how should Christians approach the topic of hell that is biblically faithful, logically consistent, and personally sensitive? Modern culture has re-defined biblical words. A humanist definition of mankind coupled with a biblical teaching of hell can indeed wreak havoc, leaving the unbeliever with a tyrannical understanding of God. The concept of “evil,” for example, has gained popularity in public discourse, especially post 9-11. What needs to be reinforced is that the evil on the TV screens is all too often the same evil that lies in every human heart. Remarkably, this is an observation made by those who have seen the darkest shades of evil. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, survivor of Stalin's Gulags saw the true origin of evil during his experience in prison. As he said, “Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts.” What the world so often leaves out, however, is that the greatest of all evils is not what man does to man, but what man does to God. God is always the most offended party.
Christians must emphasize that believing in hell does not mean Christians enjoy the idea of hell or find any pleasure in sinners suffering their just punishment. Nothing could be worse than caricaturing or giving the impression that Christians find gratification in the doctrine of hell. One of the greatest dangers in believing in hell is allowing that belief to turn into the desire to see others punished.
It must be underscored that hell is an expression of the perfect justice of God. Hell is fair because God is fair. Unlike in Islam, where Allah's mercy is somewhat arbitrary, God's gives clear teaching about who deserves punishment. C.S. Lewis points out that in nearly all cultures there is some concept of a moral standard, a “Law of Nature or decent behavior” that gives shape to the concept of fairness. Fairness means justice and justice demands punishment for evil. Humans are in quite a dilemma: a hunger for justice is woven deeply into the human psyche. Yet it is this very justice that condemns us before God Much of the modern repulsion of hell is simply inconsistence: “God should be just, but not with me.” For this very reason nearly all of the major religions teach some form of hell. If there is any perception of a higher power, it is always linked with a form of justice. With justice comes injustice, with injustice, hell.
Many Christians thinkers have argued that hell is essentially self-induced. Hell is not for the “unlucky” person who happens to get on God’s bad side. Hell, rather, is the culmination of the deprivation of good which sin always brings. This parallels what can be known of sin in everyday life. Dark movies are not happy movies, and wicked men are rarely models of joy and bliss. Hell is the infinite exaggeration of this principal. The selfish man is never knows the joys of contentment, the angry man never knows the joys of love, the bitter man never knows the joys of forgiveness. As Lewis remarked, hell is “locked from the inside” and mankind’s rebellions again what is their greatest good (God) necessarily dictates their own torment.
Christians give a defense of the faith not because Christianity is therapeutic, but because it is true. Christ warns his disciples that to become his witnesses will mean that they will be hated by the world. Again and again Christ was confronted by others, and hated by others because of his unrelenting condemnation of human sin. “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” Because their deeds are evil they reject the light, because their deeds are evil they are deserving of hell, and because their deeds are evil they recoil at its very idea.
The question of a loving God sending people to hell is not comfortable or easy, but neither is it illogical or a contradiction in terms. And to this, whether “in season or out of season” Christians must be faithful.
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