Answers in August
Ever been journeying through life and encounter a difficult question about God, the Bible, spirituality or life itself? A question that really makes you stop and think? Well, in the month of August, I want to try and give you and your friends an opportunity to ask those kinds of questions. Each night at Student Impact, I’ll pick a question that one of you has submitted on this page, and use my teaching time to address it from the Bible as completely as I can. And then immediately afterwards, I’ll open up the floor for you to ask some follow-up questions as you wrestle through what has just been said. It’ll be a little different, but I think it could be really beneficial for us…
So, what are you thinking? What are some questions that you are working through? Submit them here, or you want to do it confidentially, just e-mail Dan at dsoutham@parksidechurch.co
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August 8th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
I need Biblical passages for my new series: “The Hunted”. I’ve used “Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman” John 4:1-26 and “The Pharoah’s Dreams” in Genesis. Are there any other passages anyone would like to suggest? E-mail me: stephen_chern@hotmail.com
Or just reply here.
August 9th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
hi ummm I’ve been wondering alot about this…Why would God choose somebody to just condemn them to hell? I can’t get my head around that?
November 9th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Hey Alexis, good question. I think we probably need to rephrase some of the question: in Romans 1 & 2, the Bible says that God has made something of Himself known to everyone, in creation (Romans 1:20-21), in the Bible (Romans 1:32), and in our consciences (Romans 2:15). And all of us have a choice about what to do with what He has made known to us. If we choose to seek out the God behind the creation who wrote a sense of right and wrong on our hearts, the Bible seems to imply that we will be able to find Him (Acts 17:24-28). However, if we reject what we know of Him and don’t choose to seek Him, then we are rightfully deserving to be punished, as Romans 1 says about us.
Does that make sense? It’s not so much that God sends innocent people to hell, but rather that we (all of us) reject what we know of God and decide to go to hell ourselves. Only by God’s goodness to us do we realize that there is a solution in Jesus.