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Objection to the Gospel of Jesus Christ #6: "I can see the truth theologically. But I don't like it emotionally."
There are no abstracts and no theory speak which truly births real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ. The fallen heart hates God as God limits fallen lusts in every way. But the new heart in the new creation rejoices to be one with God.
Ezek 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
God creates entire separate creations. We know of at least two because we were born into one and then born again as another.
2 Cor 5:17 So if any one
Within the first creation into which we were physically born God created at least two distinct hearts each with its own seemingly infallible "emotional intelligence" (how and what feeling to feel when and where...). He created the heart of man and the heart of beasts and gives them to whom He sees fit.
A man given the heart of a beast:
Dan 4:16 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
A beast given the heart of a man:
Dan 7:3-4 And four great beasts came up from the sea, different one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till its wings were plucked; and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
A new heart that is neither the heart of a man or the heart of beast is given to us in the new birth into new creation by the Speech of God:
Ezek 36:26,27 And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them.
Isa 48:6-12 Thou heardest, see all this; -- and ye, will not ye declare [it]? I have caused thee to hear new things from this time, and things hidden, and that thou knewest not: they are created now, and not long ago; and before this day thou hast not heard them, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor from the womb. For my name's sake I will defer mine anger, and [for] my praise will I refrain as to thee, that I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do
This new heart is the heart of God as we are sons of God:
1 John 4:17,18 Herein has love been perfected with us that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that even as He is, we also are in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has torment, and he that fears has not been made perfect in love.
Even in God's heart there is no pleasure over the loss of a soul to hell:
zek 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah; therefore turn ye and live.
The speech of sin attempts to make out that God is as much a prisoner of His own heart as men are to the heart God has assigned them AND that fallen men have an equivalent 'emotional intelligence' as God--that there is only one heart in all reality and men and God are essentially the same. But that is a lie. God does things specifically to make Himself angry in order to display the power of His wrath. Hell exists and some are going there and have been made by God to be there:
Prov 16:4,5 Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Every proud heart is an abomination to Jehovah: hand for hand, he shall not be held innocent.
God clearly makes some specifically to burn in hell. He makes hearts that do not know Him and cannot comprehend Him in order to demonstrate the power of His wrath on them. Out of these fallen creatures with fallen hearts He Speaks to some and births them again and gives to them a heart to know Him. He alone chooses whom He will chose and bless with new birth.
Rev 21:8 But to the fearful and unbelieving,
While God feels pain over the loss of one sinner to hell, this does not stop Him from speaking and doing the truth in power to bring about His will nor does this pain and wrath cause real, literal, new, creations in Jesus Christ to speak lies which may be more emotionally palatable to the fallen heart of man or their own new heart in the stead of being spoken through by God His absolute truth in power:
Rom 9:1-6 I say [the] truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in [the] Holy Spirit, that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart, for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh; who are Israelites; whose [is] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises; whose [are] the fathers; and of whom, as according to flesh, [is] the Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all [are] Israel which [are] of Israel;
The gospel of Jesus Christ is not changed in any way to accomodate feelings of the heart--even God's heart. Though some are spoken through by sin to make out that the free will lie is the most emotionally benefcial to the fallen human heart, this very speaking in powerlessness proves that the free will lie is a lie: because it cannot be spoken or promulgated but within the emotional etiquette/rules of the fallen world. That it must abide by the rules of the heart by which fallen men are bound in order to get men to be deceived further that not only can they choose, but they are seduced by emotional devices to seem to choose what is most emotionally benefcial to their heart/pride is obvious to all who are truly born again as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ. Blatantly, because the free will lie must ask permission to be believed, it must do so nicely or in compounded deceit of emotional imperatives such as equating the fear of God to the fear of hell. But the true gospel of Jesus Christ asks no such permission as the Word of God is powerful and is in fact irresistiable grace to all given ears to hear it and it is spoken to those who are non-metaphorically dead and can do nothing of or by themselves.
Trying to work out a "gospel" which is emotionally palatable to all men such that in appearence all men out of self-interest would "accept" this false gospel in lieu and in denial of actual, non-metaphorical new birth in Jesus Christ is the constant work/speech of the anti-christ through very many false named 'teachers', 'pastors' and 'priests' in the guise of feeling sorry for those who are not elect. To equate the heart of fallen man with the heart of God is wickedness and is the very reason for the overthrow of Tyre:
Ezek 28:2-10 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit [in] the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God: behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! nothing secret is obscure for thee; by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches. Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God, therefore behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall tarnish thy brightness. They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas. Wilt thou then say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and not God, in the hand of him that pierceth thee. Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised, by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken
God feels genuine anger and wrath for the sinners whom He puts in hell irrespective of whether or not this makes "emotional sense" to the one heart of fallen men He Himself has made. Despite their pretense otherwise in their fallen hearts, no one is more compassionate than God. The sin and the sinners who go to hell feel no such genuine sorrow as He has not given them a heart capable of doing so.
But God is wise above all. He has demonstrated this wisdom in His creating at least two distinct creations and creating two distinct hearts, each with its own seemingly infallible "emotional wisdom" within one of them. He then speaks as spirit and as life and says:
Prov 28:26 He that confideth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
Prov 3:5 -8 Confide in Jehovah with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own intelligence; in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil: it shall be health for thy navel, and moisture for thy bones.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen