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• ¿Por qué Dios es tan estricto??

  Estos días, Se habla tanto sobre el amor y el perdón de Jesús que a menudo tenemos la idea de que Él tiene una actitud más liberal hacia el pecado que la que Dios tuvo en el pasado.. Pero, En realidad, sus estándares son realmente mucho más duros.

  If Jesus warns us of a possible fate worse than death, entonces tenemos que preguntar, “Why is God such a perfectionist?” Why couldn’t He just create a world in which we all love each other – or eliminate evil without eliminating those who caused it? Surely most people aren’t that bad? And couldn’t the really bad ones just be painlessly terminated? Has Jesus’ teaching been overstated, ¿O hemos malinterpretado seriamente la gravedad de la situación??

• La imposibilidad del amor obligatorio

  No English word has ever been more dangerously devalued than ‘love.’ There are many kinds of behaviour or feelings that we call ‘love’; and the Greek language uses several different words to distinguish them. But the true love that God desires is where people choose to put the needs of others before their own. Its ultimate enemy is not hatred: but self-centredness and indifference. Without this kind of love, heaven cannot be heaven.

  But there are 2 major problems. How can it be enforced? Si hay un ejecutor, how does he avoid acting out of self interest? And how can a person act out of love unless they are free to choose not to?

• La espiral viciosa del mal

  Men have always longed for a truly just society. Todavía, despite incredible intellectual and technological advances, civilizations still rise only to crumble into chaos. And it’s the same in our own lives. Entonces, ¿cuál es el problema subyacente?? Self-centred evil, like a gravitational black hole, has a kind of attraction for us; de modo que, poco a poco, we begin to tolerate and excuse it; and then defend it, dicho, “That’s just the way I am.”

  Como crece un árbol, sus ramas se endurecen; so it always carries the marks of its past. The same is true of us; we become what we choose. Jesús desafiaba constantemente a sus oyentes a tomar decisiones. By choosing our way instead of God’s, our natures become distorted. Evil’s corrosive influence makes us unfit for heaven, y nos controla en la medida en que nuestros mejores esfuerzos nos dejan incapaces de liberarnos de él..

  Your own experience of the depths this can take you to may be more or less severe than mine. But we all face a death sentence from this spiritual killer disease. None of us reading this can claim that it has not been the product of our own choices. Y, in spite of any temporary self-improvement efforts we make, ultimately things will only get worse – unless God himself intervenes.

  Can there be a point of no return? Probablemente: but one vital choice normally remains, for those who are willing …

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