Study #31: AYIN

AYIN: THE 16TH LETTER OF THE HEBREW ALPHABET

THE AYIN WORD: ETZ (TREE) PART 5

IF GOD IS LOVING, WHY HELL? (Part 1)

In our study of Heaven, we need to address the reality of Hell.

Why does a loving God send people to Hell?

God is holy. When His created beings have rejected and renounced him by living for themselves, their blatant sin justly incurs the punishment of an eternity in Hell.

Yet one can ask a better question – given the sinfulness of humanity, why would He spare anyone from the penalty of Hell they deserve?

This is where we discern His love. In the Message Bible, John 3:16 is paraphrased to read:

” This is how much God loved the world: He gave His Son, His One and Only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in Him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending His Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again…”

No sinful human could pay the penalty for another sinful human. So it took the death of the sinless Son of God to pay the penalty for our sins.

” God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21).

ABBA FATHER, in Your paradigm, innocent blood had to be shed to cover the penalty of sin. It is the blood of Jesus that “cleanses is from sin” (1 John 1:7). Unlike the Old Testament sacrifices of spotless and unblemished lambs, their blood only covered sin temporarily. But “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29) was the once-and-for-all sacrifice for all of the sins of all of humanity for all time.