CHRISTIANITY - THE PENALTIES OF
UNBELIEF
Let those who may be
tempted to question the eternal reality of it all take warning from the fearful
threat against unbelief which the chief apostle hurls at the incredulous:
"That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth." (2 Thess. 2.12)
The same dire fate is pronounced against him who even hesitates in his faith:
"And he that doubteth is
damned"' (Rom. 14.28)
This is that to which they are damned:
"Are set forth for an example,
suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Jude 7)
to which is added the Master's fearful admonition:
"Fear him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matt. 10.28)
and the fulmination of the ex-persecutor of the faithful, persecutor now of the
faithless:
"He that despised Moses' law died
without mercy: ... Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be
thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God?"
(Heb. 10.28, 29)
followed by the warning of the horrible example of the past:
"The Lord, having saved the
people out of the
and the very pertinent warning for the future:
"For which things' sake the wrath
of God cometh on the children of disobedience." (Col.
3.6)
and the yet more terrifying threat in the gentle Jesus' own words:
"Ye serpents, ye generation of
vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" (Matt. 23.33
Paul again says:
"For the wrath is come upon them
to the uttermost." (1 Thess. 2.16)
and John:
"For the great day of his wrath
is come; and who shall be able to stand?" (Rev. 6.17)
This is augmented by the apostolic prophesy of yet more wrath to come:
"But a certain fearful looking
for of judgment ana fiery indignation, which shall devour the
adversaries." (Heb. 10.27)
The argument of terror and its efficiency is again urged by Paul, who admits he
uses it for the moral suasion of converts:
"For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in
his body, according to that he hath done, whether
it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men."
(2 Cor. 5.10, 11)
and who brings it to this climax of terrorism:
"Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to
them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the
Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints." (2
Thess. 1.6-10)
All this tends to induce the mind to yield a very ready assent to the total
truth of the same apostle's warning:
"It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God." (Heb. 10.31)
Many may well wonder how a kind and loving heavenly Father of us all should
make such terrible threats or inflict such fearful penalties upon his human
children for simply not believing things so contrary to the most godlike
faculty he had endowed them with, divine reason―threats and penalties
more consonant with the practices of savages than with the principles of a just
and merciful God.
The truth is your Creator never imposed these threats on his children. They are
merely the invention of Christianity ―false, lies, distortions―all
designed to coerce and threaten people, out of fear, to leave God behind and
follow their brand of paganism.
Torah, the Source Document for all mankind, is your guidebook. Know that Torah
was not written in the King's English. So throw out those Christian bibles, get
a Hebrew Bible and come to know your Creator.
Leave the lies, fear,
threats and idolatry of Christianity far, far behind.