Is God Fair?
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According to scripture two things must happen before the salvation process can start. #1) (Acts 4:10-12) JESUS is the only name under heaven by which salvation can be obtained. #2) (John 6:44) "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me DRAW him." AND: (John 12:32-33) Jesus said; "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL men unto me." The TIME OF DRAWING is God's choice; not man's! If a person is thinking they are bound to wonder: "How in the world can someone get saved if they die before God draws them or if they never have the mental capacity to understand God's DRAWING?" And you know in your heart people die all the time before they are drawn by God. That thought makes us feel guilty because (Heb. 6:18) it is impossible for God to lie. The following paragraph describes nine catagories of people who did not get drawn by God in their lifetime! Please do not be offended; just read on and you will be surprised by how merciful, just and thorough God really is!
(A) The Old Testament people who were obedient to God and died while being faithful to God but had not heard about Jesus and could not have experienced born again salvation. (B) (Gen. 5:5 to 6:7) There was a group of people who lived in the span of time between Adam and Noah who became so wicked God destroyed them with the great flood. The Bible doesn't say if God even gave them a way to be obedient during their lifetime! (C) (Gen. 10:1-32) Noah's descendants founded the various clans and tribes all over the earth such as the African tribes, American Indian tribes, Eskimos and etc. Generations of them died before Jesus was born or before the church got to their place. What about people who are #1) murdered, #2) killed in an accident, #3) die of disease, #4) mentally retarded from birth and are incapable of reason OR: babies or very young children who are incapable of reason that die, #5) people who suffer a brain injury or brain disease later in life and are incapable of reason, OR EVEN #6) those who commit suicide before they are drawn by God? All people are eternal; see the first "SELF" segment under "THE HOLY SPIRIT AND YOU" for a discussion concerning that subject. SO: Did these nine catagories of people simply fall through the cracks and go to hell because of the time and circumstances of their birth and life?
BEFORE WE GO ON LET US DISCUSS A FEW RELATED SUBJECTS FIRST:
THINK ABOUT SALVATION FOR A MINUTE: (Titus 3:5) A person is saved by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit of God. SO: Common sense then tells us that all people must be physically born in an unregenerated (lost) condition. Think about children: Some get saved very young but most don't. See what I mean? (John 3:3 & 1Pet. 1:23) To be regenerated a person must be spiritually born again. (Luke 19:10) Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. A person does not get saved from their sins; they get saved from being lost! AND: (Acts 4:10-12) Jesus' name is the only name by which man can be saved. BECAUSE: (1John 1:7-10) Jesus' blood is the only thing that will cleanse a person of their sin.(Rom. 3:23; Rom. 5:12; & Gal. 3:22) The scripture has concluded that all people have sinned. (John 3:3; 1Cor. 6:9-10; Gal. 5:19; & Gal. 6:7-8) Sin cannot go to heaven. SO: The sin must removed before a person can be saved from being lost. According to scripture; once the sin is washed away the person gets saved from being lost.THIS INFORMATION FORCES US TO ASK; HOW DID PEOPLE WHO LIVED BEFORE JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD ON CALVARY HAVE A CHANCE AT SALVATION?
WHAT AND WHEN IS THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: The words accountable and accountability are not used in the unrevised KING JAMES HOLY BIBLE. The “age of accountability” is not in the Bible as an age that a child reaches to be accountable thus the concept is false. ONCE AGAIN; THINK ABOUT CHILDREN: some get saved very young but most do not and that proves there is no set age of accountability! (Luke 2:42) People love to point out Jesus' age of twelve years and call that the age of accountability. but: The specific meaning of this is that at the beginning of any Jewish male's thirteenth year a confirmation ceremony called the bar mitz-vah is held and the boy is considered an adult and is now responsible for his moral and religious duties thus Jesus was being responsible and He started His moral and religious duties. (Mark 10:13-15) That is why Jesus said to not forbid little children to come to Him. Children must also be saved when God draws them! THIS ALSO FORCES US TO ASK; WHAT HAPPENS TO CHILDREN WHO DIE BEFORE THEY GET SAVED?
SALVATION SIMPLIFIED: When a person is drawn by God through the Holy Spirit and that person makes his decision to accept or refuse salvation; God, when it is time, will simply send that person where he has decided to go. This "time of choice" is explained in depth in this commentary. You must understand that hell was not made for man; (Matt. 25:41) Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels. (Isa. 5:14-24) Hell enlarges only as people decide to go there. (1Tim. 2:4) It is God’s will that all men be saved. God made us in His image and just like we want someone to love us for who we are and what we are; God wants us to love Him because of who He is and what He is. God could have made us with an “I love you button” to be pushed but then we would have just been another pop up toaster, a robot. God could force us to say “I love you” but resentment, hatred and anger would be in our hearts even as we said the words. God did the perfect thing: We have the ability to think, we can reason, each individual is a soul who wants, needs, searches and responds and each person has a conscience that guides. We can decide and we are free to do so. God guarantees He will draw us. This drawing will be explained in detail later.
WHO IS GOD: So many people have the incorrect concept of God. They think of Him as a wrath filled, hateful, vengeful, eternal entity who is just waiting to pounce on individuals for the slightest infraction of a bunch of impossible to keep rules. Satan wants man to view God as some swollen with rage entity whose only joy is in sending people to an eternal hell of torment. Please understand this: (1John 4:8) God is love. Think of that! Remember when love welled up in you for someone; that tingling, nearly breathless, happy, tender emotion that almost smothered you with the desire to do something good for them? That’s the way God is. (James 5:11) God is very pitiful (extremely compassionate by nature) and of tender (compassionate in action) mercy. (1John 4:19) God made the first move toward the salvation of man in that He loved us first even when we were lost and in sin because (John 3:16 & 1John 4:9-10) He sent His Son so that through Him we can be saved. God loves us enough that He made another first move in that He draws us to Him and reveals Himself to us.
WHO IS MAN: (Gen. 1:26-27) God created man in His own image and (1Thess. 5:23) man is composed of body, soul and spirit. Every person who will ever exist is alike; yet each person is different from all the rest. Please think about the following scripture which illustrates who man really is. (2Cor. 4:16) "but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." BODY, the outward man, is the outward physical material you, your body. This outward you, your physical body, is basically the same as all other human bodies yet fingerprints, DNA, retinal scans and etc. prove we are all different from each other and the outward you is the only you that will ever be. SOUL is you the personality. Soul defined is self, ego, mind, person, psyche and heart and they are the inward man. This inward you is described by about one hundred words such as stubborn, kind, greedy, generous, proud, temper, bold, meek and etc. The reason all people are basically alike and yet any individual is different from all the others is because each of those soul characteristics (character traits or soul parts) can be divided into nearly countless divisions of various amounts. Any one soul characteristic affects one, some, or all the other individual soul characteristics in various ways depending on the amount they are; that is why we are all almost alike yet each one of us is a little bit different from all other people. The inward you is the only you that will ever be. SPIRIT defined means (vital breath, vital principal) and is the life force given by God. It is the animating force we commonly call the spark of life and that all inclusive definition hits the nail directly on the head because (James 2:26) the body without the spirit is dead. (1Thess. 5:23) Your body, soul and spirit classify you as human and you are made in God’s image because God is (John 4:29-42) Jesus-body/Saviour, (John 14:15-23) Holy Spirit-soul/Comforter and (Gen. 1:31) God-spirit/Creator. You are you, the only you, that will ever be. You are one of a kind, an individual. That is how unique and precious you are to God. See "The Holy Spirit and You" commentary and click to "Who is the Holy Spirit" and "Self" segments on the Table of Contents for a complete study of this subject.
YOU, AND ALL PEOPLE, ARE ETERNAL: (1John 5:11 & Rev. 14:11) God set eternity in the heart of man. The whole Bible talks about man being eternal and that is easily proved right where you are. Imagine yourself dead. It is easy to look down at your dead body but you will notice it is you, the soul, the inward you, doing the looking. Now try to imagine yourself not existing. You can not do it and you will never do it because you will be you forever. You are an eternal being.
PARADISE (a park, an Eden) AND HELL (Paradise refused, a place of torment): Paradise means #1 a spiritual Eden or #2 a physical Eden and both are a place of existence, happiness and comfort. Abraham’s bosom in the original Greek means a garden of joy, a paradise. (Luke 16:22-31) We read that an unnamed rich man and a man named Lazarus died. Lazarus went to a place (V.22) called Abraham’s bosom where (V.25) he was comforted and the other man went to (V.23-24) hell which is a place of torment by fire. It is obvious the bodies (outward man) of these two men had been buried and their souls (inward man) had gone into another state of existence and the two men were in two separate places.
(Luke 16:22-31) These two people, Lazarus and the rich man, had their five senses (taste, touch, sight, smell, and hearing) even though they had both left their dead physical body with its dead brain behind. (Eccl. 3:21) It is obvious they still had the God given spirit of life with their soul and that powered them in their spiritual existence. They could reason because they had knowledge, comprehension and the ability to think. The rich man (V.24) was tormented in the flames and (V.28) he was aware of the condition of his five brothers who were still in their “lifetime” state of existence on earth (V.31) where they still had a choice; he perceived a way he might help them and (V.30) he made a knowledgeable argument for their salvation even though his physical brain was dead and separated from him. The rich man felt an emotion because he obviously loved and was concerned about his five brothers and he had hope because (V.27) he prayed for his brothers while he was right there in hell. But he had no hope for himself because he did not, at any time, ask to be delivered out of the torment of hell. That pitiful hopelessness concerning his own state is beyond imagining. Both men had all the attributes of our physical existence yet they were in a spiritual existence! That is God's word!
(Luke 23:32-46 esp. V.43) When Jesus was crucified; two unnamed men (V.33) were crucified with Him. One unnamed man had no understanding or remorse in his heart (soul) and railed on Jesus. But the other unnamed man (V.41) accepted Jesus and asked Jesus (V.42) to remember him when Jesus came into His kingdom. Think about this: Both Jesus and the unnamed man knew they would both die that day because they were already crucified. Then Jesus promised to take the unnamed man who had accepted Him, while they were crucified, (V.43) to a spiritual paradise that day as soon as they finished dying. (Luke 24:6-7) The resurrection of Jesus had not taken place yet and would not take place until the third and appointed day so that proves it had to be the same spiritual paradise (Luke 16:22-31 esp. V.22-23) as the one where Lazarus had gone.Think about that: All the attributes of a physical body WITHOUT the physical body! (Dan. 7:9-16 esp. V.16; 2Cor. 12:2-4 & Rev. 4:1-3) THINK ABOUT these "out of body experiences" we read about in the Bible? What about the people you've heard about in your lifetime who have come back from an out of body experience and told about what they saw! Are they messengers?
It is obvious the drawing from God is the key to getting saved so how in the world did the people listed below ever get drawn by God so they could have a chance to get saved? Most of them never even heard of Jesus! Now we are back to the key paragraph you read at the beginning.
THIS PARAGRAPH IS A "KEY" TO CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE: (A) The Old Testament people who were obedient to God and died while being faithful to God but couldn’t have heard about Jesus; so how were they drawn by God so they could get saved and go to heaven? (B) (Gen. 5:5 to 6:7) There was a group of people who lived in the span of time between Adam and Noah who became so wicked God destroyed them with the great flood. The Bible doesn’t say if God even gave them a way to be obedient during their lifetime. (C) (Gen. 10:1-32) Noah’s descendants founded the various tribes and clans all over the earth like the American Indians, Eskimos and African tribes. Generations of them died before Jesus was ever born, or before the church got to their place; so how did they have a chance to get saved? What happens to people who are #1 murdered, #2 killed in an accident, #3 die of disease, #4 mentally retarded from birth and are incapable of reason or die very young before they can reason, or #5 suffer a brain injury or brain disease later in life and are incapable of reason, or even #6 those who commit suicide before they are drawn by God? Drawing is obviously the key to salvation so how can these nine categories of people have a fair chance to obtain salvation? Were they simply born at the wrong time and was it just “too bad” they didn’t get the chance to be saved. WHAT MAKES US WHO LIVE IN THIS "CHURCH AGE" BETTER AND MORE DESERVING THAN THEM? Do you really think God would let a made in God’s image, one of a kind, eternal person simply fall through the cracks? THAT WOULD REALLY BE UNFAIR OR JUST PLAIN OLD SLOPPY. Remember: Draw all men.
(A) in the "KEY": The people in Abraham’s bosom were those who had lived obedient to God under the Old Testament, had died and were living in the spiritual realm of paradise. Abraham was the first man with whom God made a personal covenant, (Jas. 2:23) Abraham fulfilled his part of the covenant because he was faithful and obeyed God. God counted it as righteousness and Abraham was called the Friend of God. This spiritual paradise was named Abraham’s Bosom in honor of Abraham’s faithfulness and it was a "temporary holding place” to keep faithful people. (Gal. 3:14-23) God’s reasoning is that these covenant Israelites who had lived faithful deserved the first chance at the promised salvation that would come through Jesus. Now think a minute-----those faithful people believed God would take care of them in His own good time, in His own way and they were waiting for THE WAY-----Daniel was waiting for the closer of the Lions jaws, Samson was waiting for the honey in the body of the slain lion, Noah was waiting for the perfect ark, Able was waiting for the perfect sacrifice, Abraham was waiting for the substitute sacrifice, the three Hebrew children were waiting for the flame walker; and on, and on, and on but none of them could go on to the spiritual paradise where God lives because when they died Jesus had not yet paid their sin debt with His blood. Can you imagine the excitement and rejoicing when Jesus (His inward man, His soul--Remember Jesus physical body was dead) got to the paradise called Abraham’s Bosom and said; (John 14:6-9) “I am THE WAY the truth and the life;” I am the one for whom you have been looking. It is reasonable to believe the people in this “holding place” called Abraham’s Bosom all accepted salvation and went with Jesus on to the Spiritual Heaven where God lives because they had believed and had been faithful to God. (Luke 23:43) Jesus told the malefactor that was crucified with Him that the malefactor would be in paradise with Jesus that day. To deny this would be to call God's word a lie!
(B) in the "KEY": THE PEOPLE WHOM GOD DESTROYED WITH THE GREAT FLOOD: (1Pet. 3:18-20 esp. V.19) While Jesus’ dead physical body (outward man) was in the grave Jesus went in His spiritual body (inward man) to the “holding place” called prison and preached to the people who had died on earth, had left their physical body behind and were living there in their spiritual state of existence. They weren’t being punished; they just couldn’t get out of their pit of sin. How could anyone refuse to choose salvation if they were in prison? The Bible says Jesus went there and preached to these people in their spiritual existence. Think about it!
To show how these people might have chosen to stay right there in their prison please think about the following scripture. (Numbers 21:5-9) Hard-heartedness, ignorance, unbelief and stubbornness are illustrated in the following Biblical story of the Israelite people. They had sinned and were punished by serpents biting them, injecting a poison like fire and (V.6) many people died. Sin is poison in any age, in any person, at any time. God instructed Moses to make a brass serpent and put it on a pole in the center of camp and anybody who looked on it would be healed. Salvation was right there in front of them! All they had to do was look at the brass serpent on the pole right there in the center of camp and they would be saved from death. SEE IT IN YOUR MIND: Three tribes camped in hide tents on a side forming a perfect square of twelve tribes, the apple of God's eye, the chosen people of God, Israel, ISRAEL! There was a great open space in the center where the Tabernacle was erected. The Tabernacle where the presence of God lived and it contained the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat and altar of sacrifice. Twelve wild nomadic desert tribes being prepared by Jehovah so His own Son Jesus could be born of them. The Tabernacle where every part and every piece of service screamed Jesus and salvation in prophetic splendor and they had sinned! Moses obeyed in haste and he fashioned the brazen serpent, set it on the pole and lifted high it between the heavens and the earth. God's mercy was working in this PHYSICAL SITUATION just like it is SPIRITUALLY today through the Church. Saved people were walking around witnessing to the fact they had been saved. But many people wouldn't look and they were swollen, rotting from the inside and dying in awful pain from the poison. Mothers and children were begging fathers to look and be saved from death. Fathers and children were begging and crying for Mothers to look and be saved. Parents were screaming, praying and lamenting for their children to look and be saved. Grannies, Papaws, Uncles, Aunts, Brothers, Sisters, friends and acquaintances; all trying to get those they loved with all their heart to look and be saved from death and yet many refused to look and they died! Why? HOW COULD THEY BE SO STUPID? HOW COULD THEY BE SO BLIND? WHY DIDN’T THEY CARE? The futility of it makes one want to scream; yet the circumstances then were exactly like they are today when Christians try to get people to come to church, look at Jesus on His cross and get saved from being lost in the poison of their sins. But people choose to refuse God's offered salvation and the eternal life in Heaven that goes with it. By this example of the serpent on the pole it is very possible none of these Old Testament people Jesus preached to in their prison were saved because wickedness got them there and wickedness might very well have caused them to refuse salvation. (Jer. 17:9) Wickedness (wrong, to violate, evil, to vex) comes from the soul because the soul is "desperately wicked". Salvation clears the soul of sin. (1Pet. 3:18-20 esp. V.19) Jesus preached to the people in their spiritual form in their prison. Jesus went there to offer them salvation. What could be more fair? If the Old Testament people in this prison did refuse the salvation offer Jesus brought they went straight to hell because that particular prison where they were being kept isn’t mentioned anymore in the Holy Bible so God must have taken it out of existence.
(C) in the "KEY": TRIBES AND CLANS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO LIVED AND DIED AND NEVER HEARD OF GOD, JESUS, ISRAEL, OR THE CHURCH: (1Pet. 4:5-6 ESP. V.6) Jesus preached to the dead people from the tribes and clans whose “lifetime” on earth was over and they were in a state or place of existence called dead. This is written in the Bible, it is God's word; not something this writer dreamed up! God had not presented them the opportunity to be obedient or disobedient in their “lifetime” so God, because He is fair, did not send them to prison and they did not deserve paradise. Their souls were in the place called death in the state of existence called dead and, of course, they had their five senses and could reason. All those people had tried to live a religious life the best way they knew how. They had been a natural people living close to nature. They sensed a guiding hand, a Creator, an all powerful Great Spirit and they worshiped what they thought that Spirit might be. They knew, (remember: God set eternity in the soul of man), there was life after death and they had tried to live the best they could to obtain their idea of paradise, happy hunting ground, Valhalla, or whatever their particular group called it. The Bible does not say if any of those people in the place called death chose salvation when Jesus preached to them. It stands to reason some believed, some didn’t believe, some didn’t care, some wanted to put the decision off and wait until later and etc. There is no way to know how many of them went with Jesus to heaven and how many of them, existing in the spiritual state called dead, stayed right where they were in that gloomy “holding place” called death because of their unbelief. They weren’t being tormented, they weren’t being comforted, they just were. It wasn’t too bad, it wasn’t too good, and it must have been about like it is here today. Knowing how cantankerous, stubborn and unbelieving people are; it was just as hard to convince someone to get saved in that place called death as it is here on earth today in this place called lifetime. Oddly enough the place called death was left alone because it is mentioned at the great white throne judgment and the people who wouldn’t take Jesus’ offer of salvation when it was offered do not get a second chance. BECAUSE: (Rev.20:14) If they chose to stay in the place called death they will stay there until God throws the place called death, and the people in it, into the lake of fire. SO: We plainly see that God went to all extremes to get His gospel to people in these three well known realms of existence.
Concerning the six categories mentioned in the "KEY" paragraph: Any individual who is #1 murdered, #2 killed in an accident, or #3 dies of a disease BEFORE THEY ARE DRAWN TO JESUS IN THIS LIFETIME is still guaranteed to be given a fair chance to obtain salvation by Jesus’ own words (John 6:44) “No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him. (John 12:32-33) and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, WILL DRAW “ALL” MEN to me. This he said, signifying what death he should die.” Jesus is the one who said ALL MEN. DO YOU THINK HE LIED? Think about the life after death experiences we hear about all the time. Jesus paid for our sins with His blood. Jesus, the Son of God, was the ultimate sacrifice God could give to cleanse mankind from our sins and Jesus loves us enough that He did it. There was simply nothing more valuable than the life of the Son of God. God makes sure, for sure, His Son’s sacrifice is for “all” people: “I WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME:” You must understand that in the Spirit Form Jesus can meet with any number of people at the same time as soon as they die. THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE! WOW! REMEMBER THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES YOU'VE READ ABOUT AND HEARD ABOUT? Jesus will give the people in these three categories above an opportunity to be saved after they die but before they are sent to heaven or hell because if they weren't drawn in this lifetime the drawing must be after this lifetime. Just remember (John 12:32-33) "I WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME." (Titus 1:2) "God cannot lie."
(1Thess. 5:14) The church is told to “comfort the feebleminded” and (Ps. 116:6)“The Lord preserveth the simple:” SO: #4 in the "key": if a person is mentally retarded from birth and is incapable of reason, or dies very young; OR: #5 in the "key": if a person suffers a brain injury or disease to the point they are incapable of reason and cannot comprehend salvation BEFORE THEY ARE DRAWN TO JESUS OR IF THEY CAN NOT UNDERSTAND THE DRAWING, IN THIS LIFETIME, God will give them a fair chance to choose salvation after they die! They won't have an immature brain or a bad brain in that state of existance! How can a wonderful, one of a kind, made in God’s image, eternal person be held responsible for having a “FAULTY BRAIN THAT CANNOT COMPREHEND GOD OR HIS DRAWING"? The brain is the physical body’s thinking organ used by the soul; SO IF THE SOUL HAD A BAD BRAIN YOU KNOW IN YOUR HEART GOD WILL NOT SEND THEM TO HELL BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT COMPREHEND SALVATION! (Luke 16:22-28) The Bible stresses that when we die our physical brain is left behind with the body and a person is no longer limited by a “bad brain” or an “immature brain” and the inward man, their soul, will still have the five senses, can reason, feel emotion and understand hope as has been explained so it is obvious (John 6:44 & 12:32-33) Jesus will present Himself to these people whose “lifetime” here has ended and He will draw them in a manner that is fair to all of us, He will offer them the opportunity to be saved.
Please read (Luke 18:15-17). If you have a loved one who died as a baby or a child please take comfort in the fact that children flock to Jesus because they are irresistibly drawn to that which is love. CHILDREN HAVE NOT LIVED LONG ENOUGH IN THIS WICKED WORLD TO HAVE THEIR SOUL HARDENED OR FOR DOUBT TO HAVE TAKEN ROOT. CHILDREN SWARMED AROUND JESUS IN THEIR INNOCENCE. SURELY YOU HAVE SEEN HOW EASY AND TENDER IT IS FOR A CHILD TO GET SAVED IN YOUR CHURCH? Love, kindness, goodness, happiness, tenderness, sweetness and generosity are child magnets and those seven words are a perfect description of Jesus. If children haven't been drawn to Jesus in this lifetime they will swarm to Jesus when He presents them the opportunity after their lifetime here. Deep inside you where your soul is most tender, you already knew that didn’t you?
What about your salvation? You got so caught up in the struggle and uproar of life you just kind of forgot about Jesus didn’t you? God loves you. God draws near when hearts are broken because He knows you need Him. Get saved; your loved one may be waiting there for you. Drawing the people in these five categories is very easy for God, He can do anything with how, where and time because they are His. We believe this or call God a liar because He said; "I WILL DRAW “ALL” MEN UNTO ME!" Please, please read "Who is the Holy Spirit" segment in "The Holy Spirit and You" commentary for a discussion about time and timeless.
If you find the above mentioned places impossible to believe because we don’t know where they are even though they are in God's word; just think a minute about what you do accept and believe about things you can’t see and hear: It is proven there are colors and light wavelengths the natural eye cannot see. There are decibels of sound too low and too high for the human ear to hear. These things have been proven by science so do you suppose there are colors, light, and sound science cannot record? I don’t know either. Think about aurora borealis, commonly called “the northern lights,” science cannot figure where they come from, where they go, what they are composed of, or why they are. We can see them with our natural eye, we can stand in them, we can put instruments in them and we can even fly airplanes through them but we just do not know! We can't see electricity flowing in the overhead power lines. Heaven, hell, and death could be at our elbow and we wouldn’t know they were there. God owns it all, He can do anything with it because He made it. He told us what He wants us to know in His Holy Bible and that is all we get because it is enough! We, as individuals, have the choice to believe or to not believe. Do you believe in Abraham Lincoln, Alexander the Great, Hannibal and Julius Caesar whom you have never seen? Why? DO YOU BELIEVE IN OTHER DIMENSIONS? See what I mean?
#6 in the "key": SUICIDE: Suicide is self-murder and the prevailing argument is that a person who commits suicide, ending their own “life time” here, is spiritually doomed because it is self murder and there is no time to repent. But when one thinks about it and asks questions one can understand the prevailing argument may not be sufficient. Is it even possible for a sane, rational and reasoning person to commit suicide? Chemical imbalance, electrical misfiring, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and etc. in the brain cause mental and emotional instability. Do you think any of the people afflicted with any of these diseases qualify as being "simple" (incapable of reason or understanding); not even one? Remember; (Psa. 116:6) "The Lord preserveth the simple." Of course a person who is incapable of rational thought because of mental or emotional instability caused by these and other "bad brain" diseases will be met by Jesus after they die and given a chance at salvation. OF COURSE THEY WILL BECAUSE GOD HAS PROVED HE IS FAIR! Just remember this: If you can reason (think) well enough to say to yourself; "Well, well, I can go ahead and commit suicide because God will give me a chance to get saved when I meet Him after my death." YOU WILL NOT GET THAT CHANCE TO GET SAVED AND YOU WILL GO TO HELL FOR SELF-MURDER. IN OTHER WORDS ALL YOU ARE DOING IS FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF AND GOD WILL SEE RIGHT THROUGH THAT SORRY EXCUSE BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING WRONG WITH YOUR BRAIN!
When all is said and done (Rev. Ch. 21 & Ch. 22:1-6) the people who have chosen the salvation God offers, through the blood of Jesus Christ, will be right back in A Garden of Eden, A paradise, in our resurrected, glorified and eternal bodies to live eternally with God. One is forced to ask why and that is the simplest answer of all. The answer lies in your own heart and is written in (Rev.21:3 & 7) God wants us to love Him for Who He is and for What He is; just like you and I want someone to love us for who we are and what we are.
THE TIME OF YOUR CHOICE EXPLAINED: This is very important. The above nine situations do not apply to you because you can think, you are aware and you can reason. In your lifetime you have heard about God, church, Jesus and salvation. God's word in this commentary has God's drawing power. YOUR TIME IS NOW.
Normally a seeker of Christ doesn't know the scriptural process of getting saved. He or she is simply drawn to church and to Jesus. The person listens to some preaching and teaching about Jesus and salvation. They realize they are lost and they want saved. A time of decision comes. They decide to either accept Jesus as Saviour or refuse Jesus as Saviour. Knowing it is a time of decision makes it obvious they already believe in Jesus. Then you need to be willing to pray. The person prays and it is done; they are saved. When they get done they are glad to confess that Jesus saved them. It is that simple and that is the way it happens the vast majority of the time.
If you wish to know the spiritual mechanics of the salvation process it is written in the commentary "Breath of Life". Please read it because then you can see all the beautiful effort, wonderful patience, amazing love, locked in safeguards and infinite grace and mercy God exerts to help you obtain salvation.