“I beseech every reader of this paper, in all tender affection, to beware of false views of the subject on which I have been dwelling. Beware of new and strange doctrines about hell and the eternity of punishment. Beware of manufacturing a God of your own, — a God who is all mercy, but not just, — a God who is all love, but not holy, — a God who has a heaven for everybody, but a hell for none, — a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and bad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as really as Jupiter or Moloch, — as true an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple, — as true an idol as was ever moulded out of brass or clay. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and besides the God of the Bible there is no God at all. Your heaven would be no heaven at all. A heaven containing all sorts of characters indiscriminately would be miserable discord indeed. Alas, for the eternity of such a heaven ! there would be little difference between it and hell. There is a hell! There is a fire for the chaff! Take heed lest you find it out, to your cost, too late.”John Charles Ryle (1816-1900), Practical religion. Being plain papers on the daily duties, experience, dangers and privileges of professing Christians
“Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” Caveat lector
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Monday, December 26, 2022
A God of Your Own
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