Featured Fear or Peace?

Well, this thread seems to wander far from the OP, which was admittedly vague. So go to it folks; post what ever you want to.

I'll just make one more post (unless someone interacts with this). I believe fear is a perfectly legitimate tool for evangelistic efforts. The doctrine of Hell comes under eschatology in systematic theology. It and the doctrine of Heaven are called individual eschatology. Jude 1:23 says, "And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh."

My wife was a lost, 20-year-old church attender, home from Bible college, when an evangelist preached on Hell and scared her to life. She went down front at the invitation, and though her pastor said, "But you've already been saved" (referring to a childhood event), she wept her way to the throne of God with her pastor's wife's help, and was saved. I'll be eternally grateful to the evangelist who preached on Hell.

 

I read most of the article and looked at the rest. First of all it has absolutely no source for the "millions" statement (or most of the other statements, such as the idiotic reference to President Bush). So, it's "fake news." Oh, and just to illustrate the "fake news" aspect, neither Pat Robertson nor Billy Graham were ever pastors of a "mega-church." But if you wish to believe junk like that, it's up to you.

But even if it were true, the article has absolutely nothing to do with normative premillennial dispensationalism.

 

I did not save any Japanese whatsoever (Doctrines 101).

 

I have no clue what you are trying to communicate here.

 

I preach the Gospel. Jesus saves, not me. This is basic doctrine.

Do you believe the Gospel? Part of the Gospel is that there is punishment for sin, and that punishment is eternal, and it is Hell, a literal place of fiery judgement. Christ took the punishment for our sins on the cross, which means He suffered Hell for us. If the lost sinner does not believe in Christ, he or she will suffer eternal punishment in Hell.

 

Are you trying to talk to me about your opinions? Or trying to debate about the Word of God? I'm really not seeing what you are up to here, but I am truly not interested in your subjective opinions.

Do you believe there is a Hell of eternal judgement for those who do not believe in Christ? If there is a Hell, should not people fear it being in their future enough to get saved?

 

Show me in the Bible where fear is never legitimate for a lost person.

God says, "Fear me" in the Bible. Is that then wrong and unloving of God?

 

You really should not make guesses about my doctrine. And please don't bear false witness about me. I said people don't save themselves, and I absolutely meant it. I don't believe in the straw man called "decisional regeneration."

 

Do you have an actual doctrinal purpose here, or do you only want to harass me? You're not really debating.

 

The Greek of the verse for "in fear" is ἐν φοβῳ (en fobo), which I believe is a dative of means, meaning it can be translated as "Save by means of fear." In other words, it is clearly the person being saved for who fear becomes a motive.