IT’S YOUR CHOICE – EACH ONE IS ETERNAL

I saw a bumper sticker the other day that condensed everything I want to say today into only nine words.  Such a profound truth could hardly be expressed more succinctly. 

HEAVEN OR HELL – EACH IS FOREVER – IT’S YOUR CHOICE

As a matter of fact, these short words are the very heart of what this blog is all about.

There are those who would retort, “Suppose I don’t believe in heaven or hell; then it doesn’t apply to me”.  You probably know by my previous blogs that humanists (and others) say exactly that. 

Let me emphasize to you very directly that TRUTH is TRUTH.  There’s nothing you can do or say that can change it.  My mom brought this home to me long ago with a very simple child’s example:  A silly ostrich stuck its head into a hole in the ground and said, “Ho, the world doesn’t exist because I can’t see it”.  As ridiculous as this is there are a multitude of people out there that live their lives just exactly like that.  It would seem funny if it weren’t such a tragedy.  You can refuse to recognize the truth and live as if it doesn’t exit, but know this:  it’s still there – whether you like it or not!  Understand very clearly that there are consequences to the choices you make.  In this case, it is the most serious choice you can make, and its results are unchangeable and eternal. 

I have told you that humanism is a religion and holds strongly to the proposition of evolution.  I will show you at length that humanism is a false religion that must be received by faith.  It simply and utterly fails to withstand the glaring light of real scientific scrutiny.  Christianity makes no attempt to prove itself scientifically as that is not its purpose.  Its tenants are set forth in the Bible and reveal a God that makes no attempt to prove Himself.  He simply says “I AM”.  He appeals to you to accept Him as your God by faith.  I urge you to obtain a Bible and start reading it, beginning with the New Testament, allowing God to reveal Himself to you

You will find almost immediately that God loves you and wants you to accept Him and follow him through life.  He says, “For God so loved the world [you and me] that he gave his one and only Son [Jesus Christ] that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him (John 3:16,17).  Then He continues with a very sobering statement:  “Whoever believes in Him is not condemned but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son”.  (John 3:18)

Yes, God’s claims are very exclusive.  He offers you total TRUTH.  You can receive it or not.  If you choose not to He says you are condemned.  Condemned to what?  To a life without him in this world and to an eternal HELL when you die. 

He says, “I am the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE.  No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).  Again you have a choice.  You either accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior or you can not be accepted by God.

Again, the Bible says, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). 

Finally, when Jesus was talking to some people that did not believe in him, He said, “You are from below; I am from above.  You are of this world; I am not of this world.  I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins.” (John 8  :23, 24)

My friend, there is much more I could say on this subject, but I think these verses from the Bible make it clear.  In this life you are faced with a choice.  You can choose either HEAVEN or HELL.  One thing for sure – you can’t be like the ostrich and pretend the choice doesn’t exist.  God says, “ . . . I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice and hold fast to him . . . ”  (Deuteronomy 30:19,20)