We do not know who is going to hell and who is not.
Gehazi, a servant of Elisha who saw the glory of God when he saw the chariots of angels who blinded the Assyrians came into real trouble when he sinned.
Elisha took the leprosy of Naaman and put it on Gehazi and all his descendants for the rest of all their lives.
We do not know if Gehazi was lost, although I would say that he was castigated.
We do not know if Lot's wife who turned into a pillar of salt was altogether destroyed and is lost.
Only God knows the heart and only He and He alone holds the key of death and hell.
Peter had a very close relationship with Jesus and he said this.
1Pe 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
All Christians will be judged; Unlike what Lonelysummer said there will be no free passes.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
I would like to go into this subject in detail because we are only scratching the surface which does absolutely no justice to the salvation that God has given to us. It truly is not something that we should theorize but rather something than is experienced and personal to each and every person.
So I will only quote verses as the need arises and each person will have to reconcile the verses, not one or two but probably 1000's throughout the entire bible which agree with one another.
The truth is that a totally illiterate person who cannot read can be saved before the intellectual person who justifies himself with selected bible verses, because salvation starts and finishes in the heart. If you are saved you will know 100% percent. And you will know also who you call Father by the works you do.
Peter says this again:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Peter knew first hand how difficult Paul's words were to understand and that his words could be misunderstood. (God made it that way to keep the corrupt out.) Peter pulls no strings and makes it so that a 5 year old child could understand.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Finally this has been the criteria from the fall of Adam until the final return of Jesus Christ. (The destruction of the earth)
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Very simple, nothing more, nothing less.
P.S. I understand all of Paul's writings but it will be a very exhaustive thing to try and explain it to you. The bible is not simple.
Gehazi, a servant of Elisha who saw the glory of God when he saw the chariots of angels who blinded the Assyrians came into real trouble when he sinned.
Elisha took the leprosy of Naaman and put it on Gehazi and all his descendants for the rest of all their lives.
We do not know if Gehazi was lost, although I would say that he was castigated.
We do not know if Lot's wife who turned into a pillar of salt was altogether destroyed and is lost.
Only God knows the heart and only He and He alone holds the key of death and hell.
Peter had a very close relationship with Jesus and he said this.
1Pe 1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
All Christians will be judged; Unlike what Lonelysummer said there will be no free passes.
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
I would like to go into this subject in detail because we are only scratching the surface which does absolutely no justice to the salvation that God has given to us. It truly is not something that we should theorize but rather something than is experienced and personal to each and every person.
So I will only quote verses as the need arises and each person will have to reconcile the verses, not one or two but probably 1000's throughout the entire bible which agree with one another.
The truth is that a totally illiterate person who cannot read can be saved before the intellectual person who justifies himself with selected bible verses, because salvation starts and finishes in the heart. If you are saved you will know 100% percent. And you will know also who you call Father by the works you do.
Peter says this again:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Peter knew first hand how difficult Paul's words were to understand and that his words could be misunderstood. (God made it that way to keep the corrupt out.) Peter pulls no strings and makes it so that a 5 year old child could understand.
2Pe 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
2Pe 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Finally this has been the criteria from the fall of Adam until the final return of Jesus Christ. (The destruction of the earth)
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
Very simple, nothing more, nothing less.
P.S. I understand all of Paul's writings but it will be a very exhaustive thing to try and explain it to you. The bible is not simple.
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