Here is an excerpt from chapter one. It’s all about this issue of time and the fact that while God will still judge those who reject Him, He won’t keep on punishing them for all of eternity. God is a good Father, isn’t He?
We were created to be eternal beings, to live forever. Something many people don’t think about is that eternity begins right now.When we die, we continue to live. What we do in this life, directly affects that portion of eternity. When you were born, your eternity started at that moment, not when you die. Thinking about how long eternity is. Most people would agree that we have no grasp how long that honestly is. The average person lives to be seventy-eight years old. We can all count to seventy-eight; in fact, it only takes a minute or two. Seventy-eight years isn’t that long of a period of time.
Wars have lasted longer than seventy-eight years. People have lived to be older than seventy-eight. Most nations have lasted longer than seventy-eight years. Seventy-eights years just isn’t that long of a period of time. Young-Earth creationists believe the Earth is between six thousand and ten thousand years old, depending on whom you talk to. Seventy-eight years is nothing compared to this. Those who believe in the Big Bang date the Universe to over fourteen billion years old (quite the contrast) and the Earth to
about four billion years old. Seventy-eight years cannot compare to this number.
When you think about God’s punishment or His reward for what we do (or don’t do) here on Earth, how can all of eternity be fair for either case? Is it fair to spend an infinite amount of years in Heaven for seventy-eight years here on Earth? God is so loving that He created man and woman for friendship with Him. He is so loving that He sent His Son Jesus to die and rise from the dead, for the sins of the world. Is He so loving, that He would allow the
majority of mankind to spend eternity in Hell, separated from Him?
After all, how can a person be saved according to the Scriptures? Paul writes in Romans 2:4 that the goodness of God leads man to repentance. The CEV says, “You surely don’t think much of God’s wonderful goodness or of his patience and willingness to put up with you. Don’t you know that the reason God is good to you is because he wants you
to turn to him?”
If the goodness of God leads people to repentance, how can you explain people not being led to repentance? God is good, isn’t He? In fact, His goodness is much more than we could ever imagine. Wouldn’t His goodness eventually win out over any kind of sin or evil?
Correct analogy. The narration needs to be a bit more crisp.