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Exercise any of these sound familiar?

• Every Dominicus the preacher shouted from the pulpit that you're a terrible sinner. God is angry at you. Because of God's wrath, you're going to burn in hell for all eternity.
• Your parents drilled it into you that you're just no good. And they're probably right. Y'all simply can't feel good nearly annihilation you do.
• You've done terrible things . . . horrible things. What y'all've done is so bad that you deserve to be in hell. In that location is no hope for you. You're a goner.
• No matter how difficult yous try, you lot just tin't be good. Y'all know what you lot should do, but you just keep on doing the things you shouldn't do.

If any of these are much too familiar for you, I'll be straight: There are no easy answers. Besides, yous've probably tried the piece of cake answers already, and learned the hard mode that they don't work.

I'm likewise not going to tell you that all yous have to do is believe in Jesus. Assertive in Jesus is great. I highly recommend information technology! Being born again is wonderful! Just for Christians, believing in Jesus is but the outset. Then come the many years of growing from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity.

The fact is, if any of the things on this list draw your feel, and then no thing how y'all slice information technology, you've got some hard work to exercise. And it may accept years to fully recover, even with God's help.

What I can offer you is new light and a new understanding of your situation. Nothing I say volition snap you correct out of it and instantly make your life a bed of roses. But it volition give yous promise that in that location is a path out. And it might assist you take your next steps on that path toward the life of sky God has in listen for yous.

No matter what that preacher or your parents or anyone else has said, God created you for heaven, non for hell. And there is no reason on earth that you can't observe your manner to heaven . . . no matter what your history.

And so let'south straighten a few things out.

Is a wrathful God angry at y'all?

The curt answer is: No.

Huh?!?

And so what about all those Bible passages the preacher quoted well-nigh God'southward wrath and fury?

Doesn't the Bible say, "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every mean solar day" (Psalm 7:xi, King James Version)?

Well, there's a funny story almost that verse . . .

First, the word for "the wicked" came from an aboriginal Aramaic (or "Chaldee") version. It is non in the original Hebrew text, nor is it in the other ancient translations. Even in the King James Version, the words "with the wicked" are in italics, meaning they are not in the original. So information technology should read, "God judges the righteous, and God is angry every day."

But wait, there'southward more!

You see, the Hebrew word for "God" in the 2d one-half of the verse could also hateful "not," depending on how the Hebrew is interpreted. And that's exactly what most of ancient translations, including the well-known Septuagint Greek translation, have in that poesy. The commencement half of the verse is also a picayune off in some of the older English translations.

What does this all hateful?

The verse almost certainly should read, "God is a righteous gauge, and is not angry all solar day." (Compare Young's Literal Translation for this verse.)

Picture a approximate taking hundreds of cases, one later some other, pronouncing just judgments all day without ever getting angry, even at the worst evildoers. That'southward the picture the Psalmist is painting. And it's but the opposite of what that old fire and brimstone preacher said!

Now, don't get me wrong. In that location are lots of other verses in the Bible that talk well-nigh God'southward acrimony and wrath. Only as I pointed out in the commodity, "If God is Love, Why all the Pain and Suffering?" that's just how God's love looks to us when we're aptitude on an evil and destructive path that'southward opposed to God'southward beloved.

God's love is like the warmth of the sun. But what if y'all're a snowman? What if you desire to exist cold and unloving? If yous're a snowman, God's love looks wrathful and destructive. It's a horrible, destructive heat that melts and destroys you.

When the Bible talks near God's wrath, it'southward talking about the effect God's love has on everything that'south evil and faux in us and in our world. It's only when we identify with the evil and cling to it as our own that we feel God'southward love equally anger and wrath. And the Bible oft speaks to us according to the fashion things seem to us, even if the reality is different from God'due south perspective.

Did you know that the Bible talks about God's beloved far more often than it talks about God's wrath? Here is a beautiful passage assuring united states that God feels simply honey toward us, whether we are evil or skilful:

You accept heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy." But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute y'all, and then that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the practiced, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. (Matthew 5:43–45)

And the famous verses from the Gospel of John:

For God and so loved the world that he gave his simply Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish only may have eternal life. Indeed, God did not transport the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in guild that the world might be saved through him. (John three:16–17)

Notice that it doesn't say God was so angry with the world, but God so loved the world.

So hither'south the first ray of new light, and the most important new information about your situation: No affair what you may have been told, God is non angry at you. Information technology'southward only the opposite. No thing what you take done, and no matter how horrible or worthless a person y'all call up you are, God loves you lot.

God sends you lot the lord's day of divine love, and the pelting of divine truth, whether you are evil or good, and whether you are righteous or unrighteous.

There is nothing you can do to make God stop loving you. Equally the Psalm says:

O Lord, yous have examined me, and you lot know me. . . .
If I get upwards to heaven, you are at that place.
If I make my bed in hell, you are there.
(Psalm 139:1, 8)

Are you condemned considering of what your parents did?

Our parents were responsible for bringing us into this world. They are supposed to love us, care for us, teach united states of america right from wrong, and guide the states toward a healthy and responsible adulthood. And some of united states were fortunate enough to have parents who did a fine job.

Unfortunately, some of united states of america were built-in of parents who roughshod far short of the mark. Maybe they but weren't set up to have children. Perhaps they were too focused on money or ability or pleasure to actually care near their children. Maybe they were just plain evil and destructive types who used and abused their children at will. Bad parents can crusade great damage to their children.

If you were one of those unfortunate children, does this mean your life is ruined from the offset, and you might besides but throw in the towel?

In ancient times, it was common for whole families to be condemned and executed for the offenses of the caput of the household. For example, when three men named Korah, Dathan, and Abiram rebelled against God'southward commandments to the ancient Hebrews about the priesthood, not only they, simply their wives and children died as a consequence of their defiance. You can read the story in Numbers 16.

However, in course of time, God pronounced an end to the practice of children being judged guilty for the crimes of their parents. This pronouncement comes in Ezekiel eighteen—1 of the most beautiful chapters in the Hebrew Bible. Here's how the affiliate begins:

The discussion of the Lord came to me: What practice you lot hateful by repeating this proverb apropos the land of State of israel, "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the children'southward teeth are set on edge"? As I live, says the Lord God, this saying shall no more than be used past you lot in Israel. Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent likewise as the life of the kid is mine: it is only the person who sins that shall die. (Ezekiel xviii:1–iv)

The chapter then goes on to explain in detail that if a father is proficient, only his son evil, then only the son shall exist held guilty; and if that son has a son who sees how his father lived, and resolves not to live that way, simply to live a good life instead, and so just the father, not the son, shall exist held guilty.

Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

To the states today, yes. Our justice organization is based on individual innocence and guilt. To the ancient Israelites, though, this seemed quite unjust. They thought it was correct and proper that if a man sins, his whole family unit should be punished!

God was quite clear, though, that this was not to be our practice anymore:

When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has been careful to detect all my statutes, he shall surely live. The person who sins shall dice. A child shall non suffer for the iniquity of a parent, nor a parent suffer for the iniquity of a child; the righteousness of the righteous shall be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be his own. (Ezekiel 18:nineteen–xx)

Notwithstanding, when it comes to our spiritual and emotional life, sometimes nosotros oasis't gotten the message. We remember that because our parents were evil, and neglected or mistreated us, that means nosotros, too, are doomed, and headed toward hell.

It's not true.

Yes, we may take a long, hard road undoing the impairment that our parents did to us. It might have much prayer, counseling, and much difficult and painful introspection and rearranging of our emotional and social life.

But God does not hold the states responsible for the errors and sins of our parents. And neither should nosotros. If our parents drilled into us that we're just no good, they were lying to us. And if they used and driveling us, they were perpetrating evil on us.

That lying and that evil was theirs, not ours. And though it did have a profound result on us, at that place is a pathway out of the impairment our parents did to united states of america. It is the path of recognizing that what our parents did to united states had nothing to practice with united states. It was their ain immaturity, neglect, and evil, non ours, that damaged us. As we recognize that what they said was not truthful, and what they did was merely plain wrong, we can gradually recognize that we ourselves are non what they said we were, nor did we deserve what they did to usa.

If you were neglected or abused verbally or physically by your parents, it is not going to be an easy path out of what they did to yous. But at that place is a path. And it starts with recognizing that you lot are non condemned for the sins of your parents. God created yous for a reason. God loves you, and has prepared a place for you in sky (encounter John 14:i–iii, 1 Corinthians 2:9).

You lot accept the rest of your life to exit behind the lies and the wrongs that were inflicted on you when you lot were young. You have the rest of your life to walk, even if painfully sometimes, the path toward the life of heaven that God has prepared for yous.

Take yous committed terrible sins?

What if it wasn't your parents who did a number on y'all? What if y'all yourself have done terrible, horrible things? What if you don't deserve to become to heaven considering of what you lot've done?

If that's the land of mind y'all're in, then Ezekiel 18 has a bulletin for you too:

But if the wicked turn away from all their sins that they take committed and continue all my statutes and exercise what is lawful and correct, they shall surely alive; they shall not die. None of the transgressions that they have committed shall exist remembered against them; for the righteousness that they accept done they shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and non rather that they should turn from their ways and live? (Ezekiel 18:21–23, accent added)

Based on his experience in the spiritual globe, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) tells the states that this is precisely how information technology works afterward nosotros dice. In Heaven and Hell #509, he writes:

No one suffers any punishment for evil things done in the world, only for current evil deeds. . . . Good spirits are never punished, though, even though they take done bad things in the world. This is because their evils exercise not come up back.

Swedenborg is simply affirming what God tells us in Ezekiel 18: We are not held responsible for things nosotros have done in the past. Just for things we go on doing in the nowadays. If we take done something terrible in the past, but have repented of it, accept reformed our character, and no longer do things similar that, so none of the transgressions nosotros have committed will exist remembered against u.s..

If you accept done something terrible, there is no way to disengage it. You and those you hurt volition nevertheless have to live with the repercussions of your actions. Merely i of those repercussions is not that you must go to hell for it.

Of course, if there is any way you tin can make amends for what yous have washed, you should certainly do then. Still, when your time on this world comes to an finish, you lot volition notice your identify in heaven or in hell depending on the person you have become in the present, and the way you are living now, not based on any wrongs you have done in the past.

As the quondam saying goes, "Every saint has a past, and every sinner a time to come."

And so please don't worry about the terrible things you have done in the past. God has already forgiven y'all for them. God has no pleasure in your eternal death. No matter what you've done, God wants you to plow from your quondam ways and live! Now it'due south fourth dimension to build a new life for yourself, so that you won't do things like that anymore. For more on how to practise this, see the article, "What does Jesus Mean when He Says we Must be Built-in Once again?"

What if you keep doing things y'all shouldn't?

It sounds similar y'all're in the aforementioned boat as the apostle Paul when he wrote:

I know that my selfish desires won't permit me practice annihilation that is adept. Fifty-fifty when I desire to do correct, I cannot. Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong. . . . In every part of me I notice something fighting confronting my mind, and it makes me a prisoner of sin that controls everything I do. What a miserable person I am! (Romans seven:18–19, 23–24)

Equally he went on to say, Paul found a rescue from this situation in Jesus Christ. Yet, every bit I said earlier, for Christians, believing in Jesus Christ is just the showtime footstep. Later on that comes the more challenging steps of living according to Christ's teachings.

And for many of united states who are very sensitive about our own wrongs and our own bad habits, one of the ways we don't follow Christ's teachings is to lay burdens on ourselves that are much also heavy—and are sometimes completely unnecessary.

In a recent article titled, "Is information technology Piece of cake or Hard to Get to Sky?" I expanded on this saying of Jesus:

Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you balance. Accept my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find residue for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is lite. (Matthew 11:28–thirty)

I invite y'all to read that article if you lot feel yous merely can't alive up to what you lot know is right.

Here's another thought that might aid:

Have you considered that even though you have some bad habits, and practice some things that actually aren't good, maybe they aren't really evil either?

Let's face it: neither you nor I nor anyone else is ever going to be perfect. Each i of us will die every bit an imperfect human being, even so thinking, feeling, proverb, and doing some things that we really shouldn't.

What we need is some standard by which to decide just how serious our bad habits and incorrect actions are.

There are many possible standards. In case y'all don't have one that works for y'all, may I suggest something really simple? The 10 Commandments. Particularly the second part of the 10 Commandments, which is about how we humans are supposed to conduct toward one some other. I'one thousand talking particularly about these commandments (in their short versions):

• Honor your father and your mother.
• You shall not murder.
• You shall not commit adultery.
• You lot shall not steal.
• Y'all shall not requite false testimony against your neighbor.
• You lot shall non covet.

"Covet" is an erstwhile-fashioned word pregnant wanting something that belongs to someone else. The problem with appetent is that it tends to lead to the other offenses: murder, adultery, stealing, and lying.

And about honoring your father and your mother, if the parents who raised you abdicated their parental responsibilities and did a number on you, feel free to call back of God as your father and your female parent instead. (For more on this, see "The Mother of All the Living.")

Now here'south the question: Are the things you're currently doing that are wrong really against whatsoever of these commandments? Are yous killing people, committing adultery, stealing, lying about other people, and and so on?

If the answer is yes, then you do accept a existent problem—and you need to practice the work of rebirth or "regeneration" in order to overcome it.

But if you lot're not actually breaking any of these commandments, information technology'due south quite possible that you're laying likewise heavy a burden on yourself. Do you recollect y'all have to be perfect in order to go to heaven?

I'm not saying you lot shouldn't go along to work on yourself. I'one thousand not saying y'all shouldn't proceed taking steps to give up your bad habits and stop doing hurtful and destructive things. In that location is always room for improvement.

But are the wrong things you say and practice really bad enough that you lot should go to hell for them? Chances are, they are not. They are merely areas where yous nevertheless accept piece of work to practice.

So go a little like shooting fish in a barrel on yourself. The very fact that you're concerned about your eternal land, and desire to become a improve person, suggests that you are on the path to sky, not on that slippery slope to hell.

God wants YOU in heaven

God wants Yous for heaven

Perchance you've given upwards on yourself. But God hasn't given upward on you. If God had given upwards on y'all, y'all would no longer be alive on this earth. In fact, hither's a thought to take dwelling with you lot:

As long as you are live and breathing on this globe, yous can all the same observe your way to heaven.

God has given us a lifetime hither on earth because God knows that it takes some of the states many years to whip ourselves into shape—with God'southward help, of form. Then utilize your time hither well. Then you will not be disappointed when your time on earth is finished, and you move on to the next life.

If you nonetheless think you're going to hell, consider these final words from Ezekiel eighteen:

Therefore I will guess yous, O business firm of Israel, all of you lot co-ordinate to your means, says the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions; otherwise iniquity will be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you lot have committed confronting me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the decease of anyone, says the Lord God. Plough, so, and live! (Ezekiel xviii:30–32)

Why would God say these words to us if God did not know and expect that we can leave our past behind, and live a new life?

Heaven is possible for you! The choice is yours. God volition be with you, guiding and strengthening yous every pace of the way, because God loves you and cares about you. God has a task for y'all in heaven, and has prepared a home for you at that place. Do yous actually want to get out it vacant?

For further reading:

• Ezekiel 18: God's Message of Hope . . . If You Think there'southward No Promise for Y'all
• Is it Piece of cake or Hard to Go to Heaven?
• How Tin can a Criminal Get to Sky?
• What is the Unpardonable Sin? Am I Doomed?
• What does Jesus Mean when He Says nosotros Must be Born Once again?
• Heaven, Regeneration, and the Meaning of Life on Earth

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