“I am weary of them. When I see them saying, ‘That goes against the Bible, Matthew chapter so-and-so. You're going to hell,’ really, those rascals. If killing someone could save a nation, then don't you think they would pass a law to free the person who had killed for the sake of saving the (whole) nation?”
You decide whether you go to heaven or hell.
“I do not decide. God does not decide. You are the one who decides. If you complain, it is hell. If you go with a grateful heart to places where you would have complained, it is heaven.”
God did not make hell out of jealousy or envy. Since false people appeared, God made hell as a warehouse in which to manage them.
For example, if you bought a cabbage to make coleslaw, but while making it you discovered the outer leaves had been eaten by worms, you would dump it into a rubbish bin.
This is the concept behind the creation of hell.
Since humanity committed the crime of the Fall, therefore, to remove sin from existence, someone who is qualified must emerge to reverse this problem.
Before the Second Coming, all people who were born on earth were destined to go to hell because there was no true condition for God to save them.
The highest level was paradise which was a waiting room for the creation of heaven.
Humanity has been born of a fallen lineage. There has not been a moment when all of humankind has bowed down and attended God with all of its heart.
Adam and Eve grew according to the ideal of creation before they fell.
But they never attended God from a relationship of the heart. How do we know this? Because if Adam and
Eve truly could feel God’s heart and pain, they would have never crossed the boundaries of love which ultimately separated them from their Parent.
What is hell?
Hell is a place that has no relation to God or His love, life or lineage.
No matter how well you do while on the earth, the situation after the Fall is such that you cannot establish a relationship with Heaven or the realm of the Fall.
This is a bitter tragedy we find on earth.
It is a fact that human beings who were created by God fell from a good position where they can not relate to Him.
We were to lovingly attend Him, but He was left deserted by His children who followed His servant. No one believed in Him or knew Him.
The bitter grief of heaven and earth is that no one attended and related with God in heart.
You have to hate your fallen, imperfect self.
You should hate your body. Your enemy’s sinful blood pumps through your very veins. You should understand that you cannot cut this line with a knife or burn it away.
You have become a waste factory that just consumes things of the creation and cannot receive God’s complete protection.
What determines the division between heaven and hell?
Just knowing or preaching the Bible is not enough. It is decided through acting upon the original heart.
The boundary line between heaven and hell is determined by the heart.
When you cannot conform to the ideal of love, a reaction comes against you.
No one tells you to go to hell or sends you there. This is why the Bible states “Love your enemy!” Genuine love gives its influence on the enemy.
If one sends love to his enemy once, twice, thrice and four times, the enemy disappears or is absorbed by this love for sure. It is because love has such a great power that Jesus said to love the enemy.
How do you think God feels when He sees His children suffering in hell? Would He sit joyfully on the throne happy with just a few praising His glorious name?
He is desperate trying to give them eternal life.
This is the only way that His responsibility as a parent will be fulfilled.
If after the Fall God eliminated every false thing then He could not stand in the position of a parent.
This is why God even has to eventually liberate hell no matter how hard the situation.
When a rebellious child sees his parents desperately trying to save him he will recognize how much they are doing for him and shout this out thousands of times for his sins.
A son will repent till his bones melt and his flesh falls away. The parents’ heart is such as this.
Not even Satan can accuse God for His love in trying to save humanity.
No rule prevents forgiveness for a person who repents based on the love of his parents.
From this kind of heart, hell must also be liberated. This is the way of a true devoted child. Therefore, members believe that we must liberate even hell.
Why?
Because God has such a parental heart for His children, for us who have suffered from the Fall.
Once one is caught in hell, it is a place one can never escape.
Despite the fact that we feel that our mother, father and relatives are going to hell, you do not really feel the desperation to save them. You think that it will somehow work out.
However, let’s think seriously about our beloved family members going to hell.
Human nature is such that if your parents were to go to prison, you would cry. You would do all sorts of things to get them released.
Then, if you knew that your own sons and daughter, parents, and relatives, brothers and sisters were going to an eternal prison, would you just think casually about their fate?
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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious book Cheon Seong Gyeong, Book Six, Chapter two, Section 2.
