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    Marriage and the Family Marriage and the Family - Dr. Sandy Higgins explores the roles of parents, raising children, abortion, courtship, the Basis of Christian Living in the Home, God's Pattern Under Pressure, Heartbroken Homes, Being Single, Failing Fathers and other topics from the Bible's point of view.


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  • How can God be fair and send people to Hell for eternity?

    How can God be fair and send people to Hell for eternity?

     “Fair” is a word that implies “treating everyone the same”, or “giving everyone an equal chance”.  In the Bible Jesus tells us a true story (complete with names, Luke 16)" TARGET="_blank">Luke 16) about a very rich man and a beggar, a homeless man so destitute that dogs licked his untreated oozing sores.  He survived on the garbage the rich man threw out.  

    Is that fair?  No . . . it is not.  

    Many are bitter toward God because He has allowed them to be poor, broken and sick in this life while, taking away friends and family while others sail along without a care or trouble.  The famous poem “Invictus” was written by a man who – through no fault of his - suffered deeply in this life and shook his fist at God in return.

    But this story gives us the other side of the story.  When God gives poverty and earthly suffering He tends to compensate by giving spiritual favors to the ones who missed out.  “Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”  (James 2:5)" TARGET="_blank">James 2:5)  Jesus even said, “Blessed be ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God . . . blessed are ye that hunger now . . . blessed are ye that weep”  and contra positively, “Woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation”  (Luke 6:20-27)" TARGET="_blank">Luke 6:20-27)  

    As it turned out, the rich man never prepared for eternity, and the homeless man, having nothing this life, did.  When they died the saved man went to heaven, and the wealthy man opened his eyes in the flames of hell.  The rich man, now the beggar, asked his many times over great-grandfather Abraham to send the homeless from heaven with a drop of water to cool his tongue, but was told it was physically impossible to move from one place to the other.  Abraham reminded the rich man, “Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented”, explaining how fair God is.  

    When the rich man appealed for the homeless man to be sent back to earth to warn the rich man’s brothers to get saved we get another insight on how fair God is.  Abraham explains that EVERYONE has the Bible and churches and preachers to tell them all they need to know to get desperate to get ready, and a supernatural visit from a dead person would not change a single mind.  Other Scriptures that tell us that even the creation all around us drives us to seek the One who made it, and that God is carefully looking for any seeking heart anywhere in the world to guide to His Son.  If what you already know should persuade you to drop everything and – to the point of losing everything, if necessary – gain eternal life for yourself, miracles will not change that.  

    Turns out God balances everything out very carefully.  Everyone gets enough information to motivate them to find God’s salvation.  The Lord says, “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”  (Jeremiah 19:13)" TARGET="_blank">Jeremiah 19:13)   Eternal hell cannot be changed, as this is the unavoidable consequence of dying without knowing God, part of the fabric of the universe.  God has, however, sent His only Son – Jesus – to bear the punishment of hell for us in unimagined and completely unfair suffering on the cross so we can all be born again.  That payment is worth more than the universe, all of us included.  Having done so He commands us all to repent and trust Jesus as Savior and Lord (master).  God expects us to drop everything and do exactly what He says.  When He provides opportunity after opportunity to do so, even with special favors given to us that He withholds from others as well as special warnings aimed directly at us, and we decide we have better things to do, is God unfair when we suddenly open our eyes to find that we have shamed and dismissed Him one too many times?

    Alfred Corduan


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