someone asked me my thoughts about this quote . . .
"the only one that got condemed to hell was the devil and his demons for trying to be God"
here are my thoughts . . .
the focus of this quote seems to be the place of hell, which is always an interesting topic when it comes to who is going there, who is not, and who ultimatly belongs there.
let me first note, that I believe only God has the authority to judge the hearts and souls of people . . . I can't, and I don't want you to either. With that being said ma'ny people would argue that they know what "kind" of people are going to heaven and what "kind of people are going to hell, but honestly I don't think anyone has the "rules" pertaining to the destinations of eternity perfectly worked out.
When I think about the question of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell i am immediatly drawn to the issue of sin. I think it is because it is sin which has seperated us from God and because the most simple definition of hell is eternity seperated from God.
So sin seems like the central issue to me.
so lets take a minute to think about sin . . .
the dictionary says that sin is : a transgression of divine law
so if sin is our disobedience to what God has defined as ultimatly right
Then He in essence is the King of creation . . . he makes the laws and rules, and sin is our breaking of those laws.
In a sense when we sin , through our actions we are saying, "You know what I think I know what is right, better than you do" to the King.
In a sense when we sin, we are declaring to God that we don't think he is right, that he is not doing a good job and being King, and that we believe we know whats best and could do his job better.
So when I look at sin in this light, I honestly see the little devils in all of us, because we have decided that we know better. . .
and in this sense we are trying to be God.
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so what do you think?
1 comment:
Very insightful.
I too beleive that none of us have it all together. No one knows His ways. We can't judje a persons heart. Nor would I want to. ich!
I found the original statement interesting when I first read it. It was an "a ha" moment for me. I think we spend way to much time worrying where we(and others) are going when we die instead of what we are supposed to be doing here.
Relationships. Good, meaningful, life changing kinds of relationships with God and people.
I think thats way more important than a lot of "religious" stuff.
Sin
At this point in my life, I see us all as teenagers in Gods eyes. Probably because I have one.
Sometimes we think we know more or that we are better than we really are. We are all sinners and sin is not graded. So we have flunked the test. Thank goodness for Jesus!!!
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