Salvation: freedom from sin, and from
the eternal separation from God that is brought about by sin.
Furthermore, nowhere in the bible does it say that hell is simply «
eternal separation from god.»
Would I risk delaying my sanctification to help someone from going to
eternal separation from God — you bet.
For what its worth John the only description of hell we have in the Bible is
eternal separation from God.
Those who would condemn their fellow man to a simulacrum of
eternal separation from goodness should worry about facing the real thing themselves.
The staple of LCMS preaching was the three - point sermon: you have sinned and by that sin merited
eternal separation from God; Christ died to save you from the consequences of your sins; you should in grateful response strive to live in obedience to God's will.
The punishment for sin in the Bible is very clear — death and
eternal separation from God in hell.
I was shown thru the Holy Spirit what real death was, thru a vision of Hell, a real experience and a horrifying
eternal separation from the one I wanted to spend eternity with.
I once was told about Christ and I no longer am heading from
eternal separation from God.
Those who received Him will be saved, those who didn't will be on their own, without covering for their sins, destined for
eternal separation from God who gave them life.
Yes, I believe in
an eternal separation from God as well, and I don't believe in annihilationism or universalism.
What I find amusing about people fighting tooth and nail about the Bible being the only source of inspired truth, is the fact that they themselves are defending a harmful fallacy about the doctrines of pre-believers being doomed to
eternal separation from God.
The result will be
eternal separation from God.
Accepting His redeeming sacrifice for our transgressions against God's will and for any and ALL wrongdoings to others is what saves from
eternal separation from God, i.e. hell.
Because God is a just God he had to place commandments which had a punishment affixed, which is
eternal separation from God.
Yes,
that eternal separation from God does seem like torture in a way, especially since we were created to be with God.
A condition which culminates in hell, or
eternal separation from God.
As for hell and eternal punishment, I do believe in some sort of
eternal separation from God, but I do not believe it has anything to do with torment of suffering.
Regarding the eternal state of people who do not believe in Jesus for eternal life, I do think there is some sort of
eternal separation from God, though I am not sure Scripture says much about it.
Eternal separation from Christ might be a more sanitized version of the medieval view of hell, but it is still out - of - touch with the reality of 1 Corinthians 15:22 - 28, Colossians 1:15 - 20, Romans 5:12 - 19, 1 TImothy 2:4 - 6 and 4:9 - 11, 1 John 2:2 and 4:14, and many other passages.
Yes, there is
eternal separation from Him for that person who rejects Him, but nowhere does it say God's attitude to this rejection.
I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to
eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»
If we were not responsible, God would not be just in giving eternal life only to a few and sending the rest away into
eternal separation from Him.
To do otherwise will result in
eternal separation from God in Hell.
What causes
eternal separation from God?
God will just give you what you have always wanted in the end...
eternal separation from Him.
The need for Jesus to come to earth was to save us from the consequence of our sin;
eternal separation from God.
And if He comes and your not ready, you will be left too endure the wrath of the Living God, and in the world to come
eternal separation from God.
By even 1 mortal sin — a fully - knowing and fully - deliberate act against God's law (the 10 commandments)-- you reject God, too, and thereby merit
eternal separation from God and punishment in Hell.
God the Father sent His Son to the cross — to redeem us from the second death (
eternal separation from God)
The death penalty for sin is not only the death of the body but
eternal separation from the creator.
Not exact matches
Eternal torment is
separation from God.
If they know nothing about God, Jesus, their own
separation from God, or anything else, why would they believe in Jesus for
eternal life?
It must, by an
eternal separation, cut off the heterogeneous
from itself in order that it may in truth continue to be one and the same thing and thereby fashion that man who only wills one thing into conformity with itself.
I understand the analogy, but people walking off a cliff and people headed toward
eternal separation with God are two very different things, and when God sought to rescue humanity
from eternal separation, He does not choose to yell at us, but instead chooses to love and serve.
In short Gods purpose is to separate the light
from the darkness (good and evil) and it is an
eternal separation.
The alternative of
separation from God's help in
eternal fire as a result of unrepentance and faithlessness is too horrible to contemplate as well.