God created Hell as punishment for Satan and his fallen angels. Satan wanted to be like God. He wanted humans to worship him. He left heaven, taking a few other fallen angels (now called demons) with him on a mission to convince humans to follow him as apposed to God. Doesn’t it make sense that both sides gather their supporters in their respective realms?
The rules you may be referring to may be the10 commandments. Initially God gave us the 10: commandments to ease our way of getting along with each other and make us understand that on our own we can’t win our way to God. They are signposts leading us to God and a better life here on earth if you will. They are both civil and moral ruies. They are in the first testament. They are the rules we couldn’t keep because we had free will. Freedom of choice is paramount to God. We are to willingly commit to Him.
If you believe breaking the rules casts you into hell you’d be sadly mistaken. Throughout the 1rst testament man was known break the covenant with God. Siding with Satan as you would. Instead, as of the second testament we live under grace. God gave up his precious sons life so that we could be saved. Christ’s death demonstrates how much God loves us. He gave this sacrifice because He didn’t want us to be lost to Satan. Because of this sacrificial grace God saves us. The only laws or rules are that you “love God with all your heart, soul and mind and that you love your neighbor as yourself”.
By replacing the law by grace. The only way to God is love.
It’s all very simple yet Satan twists the truth making it hard for a human to find his way to the truth. We instinctively know we can’t follow these rules. Satan wants us to believe we can be our own God. Doing what ever makes us happy. Many Christians try to follow these laws and harshly criticize those that aren’t able to keep these rules, but the truth is we should try to follow the rules to honor God. To show our love for Him. We fail miserably but in the end it is the love of God that saves us from the Hell He created for Satan and his minions.
Ok really poor analogy, but did you wake up your pet? You do take care of your pet. You provide for your pet. You protect your pet. Your pet has the free will to misbehave but you are less likely to keep a pet that does. Even if you love your pet you don’t usually want to be bitten, or have your stuff destroyed. Mess too often on the floor and most people give up on their pets, turning them in for others to deal with. Of course there are people that purposely chose pets that would turn off the typical owner or train them to be what most would consider unacceptable behavior. Now realize we are not pets in any way but the analogy fits. Your pet has free will to reject the owners favor or not. Those pets that chose to love us back may still have bad things happen. IE: illness, accident, loneliness when the family is away but they still give us love and we as owners reward their loyalty. God gives us insurmountable grace as we face our days but we’ve still have choice to follow His guidance to make our lives easier and not end up in a pound or we can reject Him and face the consequences of our choice. I pray that you realize God is not just a set of rules but a real entity. He actually lives in our lives even if we can’t see Him. He wants us to accept the gifts He offers us and realize if we do we can remain in His presence forever. Please try to think of Gods from a different perspective. He is not threatening you with Hell but trying to save you from it.
We do have free will. If we chose God we are not promised no suffering, we ARE promised eternity with Him. If we chose Satan we may have it easier here on earth but we will spend eternity suffering in Hell. Unlike Satan God wants us to come to Him freely not with coercion. Right now we are seeing Satan force us to chose him over God!
Not much for carbs in the first place. Although I do like potatoes. I don’t even drink anything but water, coffee and tea. So no pop. As for exercise I’m constantly doing something. I know that people expect exercise to be with a machine of at a gym. I do everything you can imagine from weed whacking, mowing, power washing, gardening to regular household chores that forces me up and down stairs, lifting and bending. Today I picked a bushel of tomatoes for canning, did three loads of laundry (in the basement) and washed windows. In the bad weather I ride 10 miles a day on a recumbent bike. I’m 60 and have orthopedic issues.
While reading these stories around the internet I find it is often the women that are instigating an issue. I believe this signals Satan is using women to fight against God just as in the Garden of Eden.
I guess I could be wrong because I’m pretty misogynistic, but when men lead these things do not seem to be an problem. Has anyone else noticed that the majority of the DS seem to be women? Q tells us that when this situation is biblical, I often wonder if we are missing the point.
I grew up in a very small town, graduating class of like 70 kids. In the last three week there has been 4 of my classmates who have lost the elderly mother. On top of that the mother of a childhood friend of my brothers passed and she live right across the street from my Dad. My Dad lives on a lake and two weeks ago a friend of his in the other side of the lake passed. The is FIVE deaths in the last 3 weeks!
My father is 85 yo with a history of blood clots. He too is on thinners. Younger brother who is Dads medical advocate went to FLA, other brother who wants Dads house and his wife tried to take my Dad to get the shot the morning after younger brother left. I blew a gasket and luckily they back off. I really believe I saved Dads life. Reading these stories breakers my heart!
I had been trying everything I could to lose weight. Finally go the Dr to send me to a dietician. One of the first thing this woman did was recommend a bunch of boxed food! We were amazed! Wouldn’t a dietitian recommend fresh foods? The whole reason I went in the first place is that I was already eating eating fresh and the weight wasn’t coming off. Who would have guess that the dietitian was more interested in prepackaged garbage?
I’m starting to think that we are going thru this to wake the sheep is a lie. What more of an indication of being awake do we need, if it’s not stadiums full of people chanting F Joe Biden do we need to see before we realize if they aren’t awake by now they aren’t gonna be any time soon?
I’ll try to keep this short. When my son was about ten I asked him if he believed in God. He said that he didn’t understand how he could believe because he couldn’t see him. I explained that you can’t see the wind but asked him if he could see the power of the wind, IE: in storms and such. Later that spring he saw a go cart down the road for sale. Unfortunately we couldn’t afford it because I had been laid off. The whole summer passed and the guy selling the go cart knocked on our door asking if we were still interested and gave us a price we could afford. Many months later my son told me he had been praying that God would get him that go cart and God had answered his prayers! Many could dismiss such a common day to day occurrence but to that little boy it sealed his belief in God. At the same time he learned God answers prayers in his own time and his own ways. We all ignore Gods presence in our lives as coincidental but I can’t count the times that God has answered our prayers. A check in the mail when we most needed it, health returned to someone ill. A relationship problem solved without our intervention. God is real sir. You believe that you are in charge of your successes but you’d be wrong. Gods blessings are like the faith of a child seeing the power of the wind. Faith is believing when you can’t see it. Prayers that you stop making yourself God and realize that there is a greater power than you.
It isn’t only the farmers. My brother owns several houses in a town that is dying. He has been working toward reclaiming the homes and bringing people back to the area. Last week a local Christian collage bought one of the homes telling him they wanted it to quarantine any student that may have COVID. When he went to closing he was told the guy was late because he had had six other closings that morning, it was barely afternoon. This in a town that in its glory had a population of 30,000+/-. My brother stated that he had other homes and they promptly offered him LOTS of money for them. It’s your guess as to what they are doing with them. I’m looking for the unmarked buses. Hint: we are in a blue state and the majority of the white residents have left this town years ago.