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be given to us as our reward. We can rest in death in peace and hope.
Just as God came to Adam and Eve to find them when they had done wrong, so He comes to us. This is the still small voice of conscience we hear deep in our minds. The more we ask for God to come into our lives and show us right from wrong, the clearer and more urgent that little whisper will become. Or we can choose to shut out the voice, and turn from it. |
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That is the choice God allows us, but to do that, is to sow the seeds of eternal death. We choose our own destiny. God gives us the choice.
Two resurrections, the one to life and the other to damnation, are shown us in the Bible.
Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.John 5:28-29.
We hold the control over which one will be ours. If we choose the one we have hope. if we choose the other we have only fear and annihilation, with nothing more than the horrors of this world beforehand. Which will you choose? |
| If we believe that we can never die, that raises the huge question that has been asked in all ages - what happens to those who have lived evil lives? Where do they go? Where did the concept of an ever-burning hell come from? |
If you took a poll of the people you know, almost all would say they believe that death is like a door, the place we pass through as it were, to another life in another settingwith no interruption of life. Just a point we reach in a life that can never end. It is commonly thought that immortality is inherent in us; that, because we have life from conception, that life can, and will, never finish.
For hundreds of years, the most debated question about life after death has been: What happens to those who have chosen to live evil lives? An ever-burning hell, with all its imagery of pain and torture for ever and ever is not easy to think about. If we see an animal in pain, the kind thing is to have it put to sleep, (did you notice the word?) |
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| but yet we are ready to consider that God would consign someone to pain and torture for an inconceivable unending length of time, with never a hope of release. |
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It is these considerations, in the main, that have resulted in many, if not in turning away from God altogether as too cruel, then to finding human refuge in one of the many alternative views about what happens when we die - paradise, purgatory, limbo, re-incarnation, or re-absorption. Many of them have an element of a second chance or a remedial experience somewhere else before reaching paradise. Even today new and different things are being taught, and some of the old views rejected.
If we are looking for solid ground amid the shifting quick-sands of different teachings then we should look to Jesus and what is said in the Word of God. |
| Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today and tomorrow. Hebrews 13:8. |
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