Have you Fallen for The Lie??

There is a lie going around...Many many have fallen for it and embraced it and built their philosophy around it.  And all of hell laughs and applauds.
Because you see, it's there that the lie was crafted. It was formed with deceit and malevolent hatred and it was treasured because they knew it would be effective and would deceive the minds of many.  It would bring many thousands into the hot embrace of hell.
And they were right, those dark powers.
They were right about it being the key to the damnation of so many.

Here's a simple test to see if you've fallen for the lie.

1. When you do something wrong, that you know is wrong, do you do it and then look around quickly for lightening bolts to fall from heaven?
2.  When you pray...or try to...do you feel unworthy and like no one wants to hear from you anyway?
3.  Do you believe that God created hell for mankind?
4.  Do you believe God "throws men into hell" and that He gets pleasure from it? 
5. Do you believe God is just waiting for you to sin to give him a chance to catch you slipping up --so that he can put you in hell?
6. Are you afraid of God? (not "do you fear God." These are two different things)
7. Are you terrified at the thought of Judgment Day?
8. Have you chosen --rather than to believe in a God like this--to merely pretend like he doesn't exist....?
9.  Do you hate or resent the idea of God? 
10. Do you think God "Damns people to hell"? 

Scoring:

If you answered "yes" to even ONE of these questions, then to some degree or other; you have fallen for the lie.  Probably Satan's number one trick; his favorite deceit which he's used to damn millions.
That's right.
Satan has damned millions...or rather; he has tricked them into damning themselves.

So what is the lie?
The lie is that God cannot love you and yet be offended by or dislike your sin.
 If your child does something that displeases you, do you hate him/her? Do you want to send him or her into eternal torment? and yet, are you angry at your child's wrongdoing?
You see, God is no different.  He is our Father. He loves us.  He loves YOU.  And yet He HATES your sin.
God did not create hell for mankind;he created it as a place to punish and contain Evil (namely Satan and his minion demons)
God does not enjoy it when men put themselves there.
And yes; men choose to go to hell.  Because by rejecting the way to avoid it; they are by default choosing the consequence of their decision...in this case, an eternity in hell.

God created hell to punish Evil and to put an end to it's damage to his beautiful and perfect Creation.  He never intended for men to end up there , that's why He gave Adam and Eve the warning to NOT eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil...Because once you KNOW evil...you become evil.  It's like black sticky tar; you cannot touch it without getting it all over yourself. God warned them, not to be mean.  not to keep something good away from them....but to protect them from hell...and to keep them close to him as his perfect and dearly loved children.  Because you see, God is Holy and he cannot live amidst sin and corruption.  So by tasting evil; man was also separating himself from God.

God hated that.
So he set about to make a way to protect his beloved children from the hell they chose for themselves.  And that is why he sent Jesus to take the punishment that Justice  demanded for the sins of his children...upon himself.  Jesus went to hell and through hell---so that you wouldn't have to.

So please, don't offend God by blaming him for something that we as mankind did to ourselves.  Don't blame him for the evil that Satan commits and designs.  Rather, embrace him as the Father who loves  you and who paid the highest price for you to avoid the worst pain.

Romans 5: (NIV)

⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)

²¹ For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. 

John 3:16 (NLT)

 ¹⁶ “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 86:13 (NLT)

  ¹³ for your love for me is very great.
      You have rescued me from the depths of death. (or "the Pit" or "Sheol")

Acts 26:17B-18

 I am sending you (Paul) to them ¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Deuteronomy 32- 

(too long to quote here.)