I guess I’m asking a silly question to some. Lets stop and think about the question though. Why are men going to Hell? Some doctrine would seem to point that man goes to hell because he doesn’t do something. If man doesn’t believe and repent from their sins, then he will go to hell, or believe and be baptized then hell will be your final destination. I think that all would agree that these things are not what send us to Hell. It is not what we don’t do that sends us to Hell. It is clearly what we do do that sends us to Hell. I think that when we look at it from that perspective we can say that sin sends man to Hell. God has no tolerance for sin. Romans 5:12 states that by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. All man has sinned, even infants, all man because of sin is dead spiritually.
Now the law was sent to show man there sin. There was no way for man by the law to be justified with out a sacrifice for sin. In order to put away sin a perfect man, a man without sin needed to die. Well all man has sinned it passed down from Adam. The only way to put away sin was for Christ to die. He did that on the cross and suffered for our sake. Now if our sins were not put away on that cross, then Christ suffered for nothing. My Savior suffered more than any man could ever think about suffering on that day. My sins and the sins of all Gods people were put away on that day. They were cast away as far as the east is from the west. My sins are no more. God can only tolerate me because my savior paid my debt.
Now if my sins were done away with upon that cross then tell me what is going to send me to hell? You must say nothing. Whether I believe it or not I still have no sin. There is nothing that can send me to hell if my sins were paid for on that cross.
Philip
