[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by crakjak

Not nearly as warped as preaching that our God whose mercy is "everlasting", has created a customized torture chamber to torment His highest order of creation without hope....!!

Does it offend you that God has the power and the love to eventually redeem Senator Kennedy? (BTW: I was regularly offended by his politics)

I'm just a simpleton, crakjak; I believe what the Word says:

Luke 13:24-28
...Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
...When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
...Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
...But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
...There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

Why would we ever seek to convert anyone, if everyone will be saved in the end? Is there any purpose to evangelism, or any reason we should live a devoted life to Christ?