RE: [TruthTalk] Eternal Judgment

[ShieldsFamily]

This may -- and I emphasize may -- be truth if God were willing to give up on you. But he is not willing to do that -- in fact, "He is not willing that any should perish but all should come to repentance." At the risk of offending you, I want to say that there is a relational dynamic at play here that you have yet to grasp. I believe as Torrance does, that God's "love will not let go. Even when a man has made his bed in hell God's hand of love will grasp him there." I had a professor who said that "hell is banging on the backside of grace"; in other words, hell would not be nearly so hellish, were not for the fact that God loves you and now you know it. Anyway, you can think about this and let me know what you think.   Bill   Bill, you have read my own testimony of how Jesus Christ entered my heart when I was a lost teenage girl, and how I experienced love for the first time in my life.  If you think I have no comprehension of the “relational dynamic” you are deceived.  I would be at just such a loss to express to you the relationship I have with my own husband.  You’ll just have to trust that it is really there, and how very much so.   I was just sewing and had a program on TV that was about hell (some fact, some fiction).  One statement jumped out at me.  Someone said, “You go to hell, not for bad things, but for loving the wrong things.”  How true! We can love God and all that truly comes from Him, or we can love the world and it’s worldy ideas.  Some of those are all about “love”.  Izzy