Torillian said:
Dulfite said:
Torillian said:
Dulfite said:
As for your last point, it's a heart thing. God desires people to come to HIM and to receive HIS blessing of salvation, but people refuse and reject HIM time and time again. And people, all of us, are deserving of the punishments of eternal separation from God (we kill each other, lie to each other, commit all kinds of sexual immorality, and the list goes on). But God, being merciful, offered THE way out of that in Jesus Christ. Blaming God for people going to hell when he has freely offered the way out of it is like blaming a firefighter on a lader extending his hand to someone in a burning building and that person rejecting the hand, it just doesn't make sense.
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God makes the rules and then decides what's required for him to "forgive us" our transgressions.
In your analogy that would be like if the Firefighter lit the person's house on fire, and then when reaching out his hand said that you'll have to love him in order for him to save you.
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No, because mankind was not originally in sin when God create us. We put ourselves into sin and therefore the burning house. It's not like we, as a species, were created in the burning house.
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God made the rule that he can't abide sin. He's all powerful, why does he have requirements to his forgiveness? He decided that everyone who doesn't love him goes to hell. He absolutely lit the house on fire.
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It's not a rule against his own ability to be in sin, that is a common misconception. Sin is literally the opposite of God, because HE is totally holy and righteous. Sin is the absence of godliness. Again, people act like loving God is a sacrifice or that it's forced. HE is extending HIS hand to you and everyone else at all times. If people want to reject that hand, how is it God's fault? I love every second I've had since becoming a Christian, not just because I'm now saved (that's just the beginning) but now I have a relationship with the creator of myself, the way it was meant to be, and HE is constantly changing me for the better and ridding me of sinful desires and replacing those desires with love for HIM and love for HIS children (all humans). I have never loved believers in Christ and non believers more than I do now and I know that will continue to grow.
