Hi to all my Forum Friends,
NO ONE GOES TO HELL FOR SINNING! Or for being a sinner! If that were not true, no one would get to heaven, for we are all sinners. Believers are only "forgiven sinners."
1 John 1:8, "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us."
Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
So, what will send a person to hell? Only one thing -- NOT having a personal saving relationship with Jesus Christ. "He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life" (1 John 5:12).
What does this mean? It means that if a person has a personal relationship with the Son, Jesus Christ -- he/she WILL go to heaven. If that person does NOT have a personal relationship with Christ before dying -- that person will spend eternity in hell. Simple as that! SON, heaven. NO SON, hell.
But, the beauty of God's plan for us -- is that we each get to individually choose, and MUST choose, where we will spend eternity: Heaven, in the presence of God -- or Hell, void of the presence of God.
Eternity is a very, very long time. Choose well, my Friend, for you will have to live with that choice, eternally.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill