God is All......now and forever
God is All......now and forever
Freelight, This thread is supposed to be about Battle Royale XII. You have offered very little as it relates to the things discussed in Battle royale XII other than to say you agree with Logos as it relates to UR. That's all fine and dandy. But let's talk about something you have said several times, namely that everyone is God's child.
The problem you have is that this is again a fallacy! We do not believe that a SINGLE one of God's children will be tormented forever in the Lake of Fire! Not a single one! This debate was about whether or not the wicked will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire. Not god's children Freelight, the wicked.
Hi PK,...........I understand the general
belief that only the
wicked will be tormented forever in the lake of fire. My reference to calling all souls Gods children implies the more original sense of all souls being Gods '
offspring'. All souls come from God and are God's(all souls belong to God).
Freelight: Do you understand the difference between God's children and the wicked?
Souls may act good or evil,..but they are still all Gods offspring. Notice Jesus when teaching the multitudes....referenced God as 'your heavenly Father' or 'your Father in heaven' - God is the Father of all...being the Creator/Source/Originator. Other than that.....a soul walking in the light and love of God....being regenerated and inspired by Gods Spirit...would by evidence of his life and fruitfullness...prove himself to be a Spirit-led child of God. - on the other hand,...a soul manifesting sin and wickedness to such a degree of depravity and ill habits....would be deemed 'wicked' by the fruit/behavior of his lifestyle.
Freelight: How does one become a child of God? Is he born that way? Is everyone alive a child of God?
My former statement of all souls being Gods offspring stands. The fruits or dispisotion of ones life may also determine if one is a child of God or 'wicked'. (in a behavorial criteria).
Now to your specific questions about 'how does one' become a child of God, etc. - of course you already have these questions 'down pat' according to certain theolgoical prefigurations. I'm aware of these answers and their 'reasons' as taught and propagated by so many preachers, preaching essentially the same common beliefs and the way to salvation thru Christ(choose your method/technique of conversion, etc.)...so not so interested in going thru ones 'salvation manual'.
Here are my points to reveiw -
1)
All souls are Gods offspring. God is their Original Father/Mother...as All That Is comes from 'God' and returns to 'God'. God is the One Primal Source of All Existence.
2)
God created all things/beings thru His Will...inspired by his all-mighty Faith and Love. He upholds all existence and the destinies of all things/beings by His all-mighty Faith and Love.
Now concerning the wicked (or any soul for that matter) suffering an eternity of eternal punishment/torment with no remedy or salvation possible > This would serve no purpose and it is contrary to the very Law/momentum and principle of Life Itself,....this principle being the eternal Law of progress.....and the fruition of Gods seed-substance in the heart of all that is....coming into bloom...into the full harvest - this harvest coming into full life expression by the very Faith and Love of God in that seed. I see the principle of life in that soul-seed...born of God...and such seed must ultimately bear fruit...and every soul ultimately/eventually drawn back towards its Source and very Life.
Again......torturing the wicked for eternity with giving them no hope or possiblity for conversion or repentance FOREVER is terribly unjust, unreasonable and illogical to Love....when these souls still have within them the potential for repentance, besides the very divine God-given potential of their very purpose for being!
Dooming a soul forever violates the very principle of Life/Love.
It utterly annuls their purpose for being! It goes against all that is Good and just.
Therefore, we cannot hold God to such economics....and must see the Lake of fire or any temporal punishments/sufferings to be only 'temporal' and ultimately 'corrective, rehabilitative' serving to at last awaken souls homeward to what is good, right, just, moral, positive. The lake of fire metaphor would be more a divine purging and transformation of all that is impure ultimating in only the souls pure essence and divine potential being saved 'thru the fire' and it reborn or 'transenergized' thru such fire.
Gods Will and Love triumphs at last because there is nothing more Powerful in existence than His Will and Love which is in the essence of all true life and consciousness.
This being so.....free will liberties and seasons of sin (no matter how long engaged) can never endure beyond the boundlessness of Gods Love! The Infinite is always greater than the finite. In the realization of Truth/Love/Light...when Gods Presence is fully ensouled...sin is wholly outshined/transcended and one discovers that his very heart & Soul is one with divine Will. This is the apex of God being All in all....when we are wholly at-one with Him....in Spirit.
Thru the long trials and tribulations of sin (the soul making amends, expiation for such...reforming itself and repenting thru the many experiences of life).....all shall enter into the Kingdom of God...for such is the Path and the Way of Life. Consider the Higher Will of Life. The Will to Life,...which is within the heart-atom of every soul. Consider the Ultimacy of LOVE. Place these eternal verities of the Spirit-glory before all things and in all things/beings....and the light shall dawn....of the Triumph of God.
paul