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Originally Posted by Harmony
Very good thread! I have had this very question. I get overwhelmed by the thought of the billions of people that are currently on this earth as well as the ones that have passed on. Are the 99.9% all going to Hell because they didn't believe acts 2:38? Did Jesus shed his blood for so few?
I am sorry to say this, but it has been my life experience that there are more ways to loose your salvation then there are to obtain it in the UPC churches I have gone to. The whole point is to live in such a perfect way as not to loose it.....yet no one is perfect
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I was raised UPC and have no ax to grind, however the idea that the vast majority of God's creation were to spend billions of years in torment just did not resonate in my spirit. The more I prayed about it the more I desired to know God as He really is, rather than as tradition and religion portraits Him. If you can just reach the point to ask the question, "could it possible be God purpose to redeem all His creation?" Then as you study scripture pray the question, it is there all the time, no need to avoid the Word, it is there.
What an awesome God!!! Then you will begin to see others in a totally new light, the light of God's love. Even His severity has a purpose, to cure, to purge and to redeem. No one will escape judgment, the setting of things right.
"Then none will say, 'know the Lord', for all shall know Him from the least to the greatest." "...every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Yes, these are quotes from scripture.
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