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Originally Posted by crakjak
You are not questioning whether the love of God fails, you are declaring that it does fail at physical death. I don't believe His love ever fails. There is a purpose for good and evil in this world, but it is just for this world, the age to come will be quite different as God completes His work of redeeming all of His creation.
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No, I am questioning whether the individual receives the eternal blessings of God if that man rejects God's love and mercy and decides not to return to God through an act of repentance, for it's appointed to man once to death, and after that, the man is judged. I believe that the LORD is grieved in His heart, to this day, about every person who has died (for we are all His creation) without turning to Him and accepting the relationship He allows us to have through His sacrifice on the cross. If man received reconciliation with God through the eternal love and mercy of God, regardless of whether or not he/she repented and turned to God, there would not be a hell/sheol/lake of fire and every person would be found in His glorious presence at the Holy City, New Jerusalem.
From what I glean from the Scripture pertaining to the prodigal son, there are four main pieces to the story: neglecting one's place in the family (of God), living a life contrary to what the father desired, the son returning back to the father through an act of repentance, and the son receiving the gifts/blessing of the father after repenting. Can you use any other Scripture to show that would show or infer the son would have received the blessings of the father without turning back to him?
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