To understand how hell glorifies God, we must see hell in light of the great story of the Bible, its point of view, and its characterization of God and man.
The story of the Bible, like all stories, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
- God creates a perfect place and places an innocent man and woman there.
- God sets the conditions and clearly establishes the consequence of transgression of his conditions.
- An enemy is lying to the innocent woman.
- She believes in lying.
- Breaks God’s conditions.
- And man accompanies her in sin.
- God curses the enemy and initiates the consequences of transgression.
- Also cursing the earth.
- In the curse on the enemy.
- God says that the woman’s offspring will hurt her head.
- Enemy.
- While the enemy will damage the descendant’s heel.
- Men and women are banished from the perfect place.
Humanity was divided into two groups: the offspring of women and the offspring of the serpent, the righteous and the wicked. The descendants of the woman are initially a subset of the nation of Israel, a lineage of descendants that God has chosen to bless. . They experience a new version of the beginning of the story. God places them in a promised land and sets the conditions. They break the conditions and are banished from this earth, but God continues to promise that the enemy will be defeated, even if it must happen because of the painful bloodshed of the woman’s descendant.
Thus, Jesus comes as the promised descendant of the woman. Crush the enemy’s head and the enemy hurts your heel?Jesus dies on the cross. Because he is innocent and has resisted all temptations, death cannot stop him. Jesus triumphs over death, satisfies God’s righteousness against sin, and paves the way for the salvation of all who believe in it.
Creation will be like a woman in the pain of work: the wicked will attack the righteous, who trust in God and bear witness to God’s truth, until they are killed; this will continue until Jesus returns. When Jesus returns, He will judge the wicked and send them to eternal punishment; it will lead those who believed in the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus to a perfect new place.
Does the Bible give us God’s point of view?
This story is not just a story; presents God’s vision of the world. Think with me from the point of view of the Bible, from the point of view of the writers of the Bible.
His view is that God defines the terms and that God is always right. Those who reject God’s terms are wrong and face the consequences God established when He established the terms. Moreover, the Bible not only represents the view of biblical authors, but also claims to speak for God. In other words, the Bible claims to present God’s view of the subject.
? Proposal of God, man and our state before God
How are characters presented in the Bible? They are mainly presented by their words and actions, but the Bible also evaluates their characters. Let us briefly think about how the Bible characterizes God, men, and Jesus.
The Bible teaches that God does and always says what is right, always keeps his word, God is free and good. The Bible always justifies God; In other words, the Bible always shows that God is just; paradoxically, the Bible also shows that God is merciful.
On the other hand, all men do and say what is wrong, which reveals a lack of trust in God; in words and deeds, man transgresses God’s commandments; men have corrupted God’s good creation, perverted his excellent gifts, and, in any case, attacked God, who gives them life and all that is good; therefore, all human beings deserve to be condemned.
As we said earlier, there are two groups of humans. A group is characterized by trusting in God, accepting its terms, confessing that they have broken the terms, leaving aside their transgressions, and trying to believe in God’s promises so that they can live on their terms. The other group rejects God and his conditions, refuses to admit guilt, refuses to give up evil, and joins the enemy.
Jesus showed through his words and actions that He was completely human and completely God. Jesus never transgressed Dieu’s commandments, He solved the grave problem. Jesus gave himself up for others. Whoever opposes or rejects him opposes and rejects kindness and love; who opposes and rejects deserves to be condemned; who receives and joins him does so in his terms, which are God’s conditions and involve confession of sin, repentance, and Jesus trust.
How does all this help us understand how hell glorifies God?
This world is the story of Dieu. He spoke and made it exist, and the world continues to exist because God continues to speak. The universe is sustained by the word of the power of God. It’s your story. He is the author whose point of view is communicated in the Bible and whose characterizations define the participants in the drama.
Hell is an act of God that keeps His Word. The fact that God sends the wicked to hell shows that he is faithful and righteous. If God did not apply the terms he had set himself, he would not keep his word and would not be unfaithful. If God did not send the wicked to hell, He would not maintain his own standard of righteousness and would not be fair. If God did not punish the rebels in hell, the righteous would not be confirmed. In fact, if there really was no hell, we could conclude that the righteous were wrong because they trusted God.
However, hell exists and the righteous are wise to trust in God; Hell shows the glory of God’s righteousness; hell justifies those who obey God’s conditions, even if they suffer terribly; hell justifies the righteous who have been persecuted by the wicked; hell glorifies God. .
Don’t you agree with that? You could either join Shere Khan in opposing Rudyard Kipling or, again, to have so many opportunities to change the plot, point of view, or definition of the characters Sauron had to change Tokien’s mind. it’s going to happen. You are a creature in the work of the creator, accept the fact. He is the Creator, not you, how seriously should we take those who oppose hell or who try to rewrite history so that hell is not part of it?As seriously as we take Hamlet criticizing Shakespeare’s play. Hamlet did not have an independent existence. I could only criticize Shakespeare if the author decided to write this scene.
God has created a universe in which his mercy has meaning precisely because it does not nullify his justice. To be just and show mercy, God must fulfill his promise to punish transgression. In the biblical presentation of the true history of the world, God upholds justice on the cross and in hell. Jesus died on the cross to establish God’s righteousness and to ensure that those who repent of their sins and believe in Christ receive a mercy that is also just. God punishes the wicked in hell to maintain justice against all. those who refuse to repent of sin and thank Him.
· Show that God keeps his word;
· Show the infinite dignity of God, which lasts forever;
· Demonstrates God’s power to subjugate all who rebel against Him;
· Show how indescribably merciful he is to those who trust him;
· It confirms the reality of love by doing justice against those who reject God, which is love;
· Deny all those who have suffered by listening to or proclaiming the truth of God’s Word;
· And it shows the enormity of what Jesus achieved when He died to save, from the hell they deserved, from all those who would believe in him. If there was no hell, there would be no need for the cross.