Opus 2025-158: Terminologies

Why do people reject salvation and instead buy their ticket to Hell?

It’s not a matter of earning our salvation, or failing to earn enough merit to be saved.  It’s a matter of accepting what is offered under the terms offered, or rejecting it.

Yes, we are saved by faith.  It is God’s grace that makes that salvation real and changes us.  We enter life by that door.  We have before us eternal life.  There are, however, expectations to go along with going through that door.  I don’t think it is so much the offer of salvation that people reject as it is knowing the expectations.

Among the expectations are being touched by and living in the presence of a holy God.  We’re not even talking here about following rules or washing behind our ears.  We are talking about the fact that as believers, when we go through that door, opened by grace and faith, we come into the presence of the eternal God.  Those who believe welcome that Presence.  They rejoice in that Presence. They flourish in that Presence. Those who reject it refuse to go through the door.  I think there is an innate, deeply buried awareness of the Who that is waiting for them.  They want nothing to do with Him.

Of course this is all speculation.  It is based on the observation that most people would rather be their own god in a living hell than accept the real God who created them.

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