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Does really everybody get a chance ?
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Posted by: Frederik
Why did Jesus tell us to spread the gospel when every human being gets his chance to be saved anyway ? If everybody who is destined to be saved gets saved anyway then why do evangelists risk their lifes and spend time going to uncomfortable places to preach the gospel ?
Where in the bible does it say that everybody gets his chance anyway ?
Posted by: pickone
All little children belong to God. All go to Him if they leave this earth early. They are the innocent ones. The ones who trust. They have no knowledge of good or evil. They have freedom in God. They are the pictures of heaven our hearts yearn for. They don't judge. They don't compete. They try to imitate their parents. They don't understand that their parents might make a mistake. They don't even know it if their parents don't love them. They love openly and freely and they just trust that they are loved back.
From the time we are children, the wickedness in this world goes to work on us. Layer after layer of evil begins to surround us to make us lose hope. We develop "knowledge" of evil quickly, because it seems as though there is a surplus of it.
What if we were born into a place that the Word of God hasn't come to yet? Jesus gave His life for all flesh. God made Jesus our judge. I don't know how God judges those who die before hearing the gospel. But those of us who have heard, are held accountable for the knowledge we have been given.
We have been commanded to go into the world and preach this Word to every creature. If we don't do as we are commanded, God will take the talent(s), or gifts?, that He has put into the disobedient servant and give them to someone else who seeks to do His will.
This is what God says to you, Frederik:
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of God (Israel by adoption): therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Posted by: pickone
You know, you ask hard questions. There was a deaf and mute woman born quite a while back. Her name was Helen Keller. A woman went to her house and taught her how to read sign language by touch. I don't know if they had braile back then. This little girl grew up and wrote a book. I only read a little of it, but enough to see what I had to know.
She said she knew there was someone with her all along, but she didn't know what His Name was. When she got her language, she was told.
I found this remarkable. I don't know if you did this, but when I was little, I prayed alone in my room. I wonder if all of us do? Maybe he plants a little seed of Himself in each one of us and sends laborers into His field to water these seeds with His Word so we can grow up to water more seeds. What do you think?
Sorry. I get sidetracked easy. I will look for your scripture now.