You Know:
I feel you need some balanced education in the scriptures. I have posted this here as the other thread is going off on a tangent, my point is from that thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=23284&site=3&page=2
In regard to my quote from Matthew 11:20–24 about those in Capernaum being more wicked than those in Sodom, and also the fact that they had seen some of the most powerful works and miracles of Jesus. Jesus said of them after they did not repent, “Down to Hades you will come” proving that they would get yet another chance in the resurrection, due to Jesus’ immense mercy and compassion.
My illustration of those alive now was to demonstrate to you that no one on the planet has seen Jesus raise the dead and perform many other miracles today. They have not had this immense witness to them at all, or anything remotely close to it. They therefore deserve far more mercy than those in Capernaum. Even if many would die at Armageddon for their sins, these also would be in line for a resurrection far more that those in Capernaum, who Jesus directly said would get one due to them being in Hades and not Gehenna.
Merely being killed by God is not prerequisite for eternal destruction. Many in Old Testament times were killed and will also get a resurrection as they are in Sheol, the same place as the good went also.
“And it came about that as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them began to be split apart. And the earth proceeded to open its mouth and to swallow up them and their households and all humankind that belonged to Ko'rah and all the goods. So down they went, and all who belonged to them, alive into She'ol, and the earth went covering them over, so that they perished from the midst of the congregation. And all the Israelites who were round about them fled at the screaming of them, for they began to say: "We are afraid that the earth may swallow us up!" And a fire came out from Jehovah and proceeded to consume the two hundred and fifty men offering the incense.”—Numbers 16:31–35 NWT
Other scriptures also confirm this: Job 24:19; Psalm 9:17; 1 Kings 2:5; Job 14:13; Job 17:16; Ecclesiastes 9:7–10; 1 Kings 2:5; Isaiah 14:9–11; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 32:21; Matthew 11:20–24; Revelation 20:13.
Look at the example of Manasseh: “And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel. And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars to Baal and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah. And he caused his son to pass through the fire, and used magic and divination, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. And he set the graven image of the Asherah that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever; neither will I any more cause the foot of Israel to wander away from the land that I gave their fathers; if they will only take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. But they would not hearken, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel…And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.”—2 Kings 21:2-16 J.N.Darby’s Translation 1890
And yet when you read on, he repented and was forgiven by God! You Know, If God can forgive someone like that then he can forgive virtually anyone for his or her sins, as even Manasseh had not committed the unforgivable sin of sinning against the Holy Spirit.
The scriptures in Hebrews, about sinning against the Holy Spirit, were directed at the spirit anointed Christians; who not only knew all about God and his purposes, but also were anointed with his Holy Spirit. If they then rebelled after this underserved kindness, there would be no hope left for them. (Hebrews 6:4-8) The only others clearly identified as going to Gehenna were the Jewish Pharisees, who not only saw divine miracles, and acts of the Holy Spirit, but wilfully opposed its operation, and had a wealth of scriptural and prophetic evidence that Jesus was the messiah, which they ignored, and also sinned against the Holy Spirit in full knowledge slandering Jesus and the Holy Spirit accrediting their operation to Satan.
You Know, virtually no one today is in that category, so even if 6 billion do die at Armageddon as punishment, the vast majority will come back for a proper chance after Armageddon as they would not have sinned against the Holy Spirit, and Romans 6:23 would come into operation; they have paid the price for sin which is death, and so would then get a resurrection and a full opportunity to know God and Jesus under his reign during judgment day.—Matthew 24:31–46
You Know, you need to realise that that God does not change, and in fact it is Jesus who will judge us (John 5:22) and he clearly stated even those who saw his supernatural miracles in Capernaum and did not respond will get another chance in the resurrection during judgement day. (Matthew 11:20–24) They, along with all those destroyed by God in the past who are now in Sheol will come back. This would include all those who died in the flood, as there is no scriptural evidence that they are in Gehenna, or that they sinned against the Holy Spirit, or that Jesus’ blood was not also shed for them.
It is not only distasteful that you set yourself up as a god of judgement, hiding behind the skirt of the Watch Tower “mother”, but you feel God will abandon his love and mercy clearly shown in the past by the fact that even the wicked will get another chance. You ignore the fact that Jesus clearly showed those who didn’t repent in Capernaum will come back again, how much more those alive now who have seen no miracles or proofs!
I will leave you will one scripture, your lack of love may mean the demise of your own eternal chances if you don’t learn to be more merciful:
“Stop judging that YOU may not be judged; for with what judgment YOU are judging, YOU will be judged; and with the measure that YOU are measuring out, they will measure out to YOU.”—Matthew 7:1, 2