Who wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth
Paul to Timothy (1) 2: 4, Concordant New Testament
Christianity is filled with them. My friend who remains in the Eastern Orthodox religious system often refers to those who somehow throw away the "Gift" which the Lord God has given unto them. These are the lost souls among us. Mainstream church theology would describe these wayward children of the Lord as destined for an eternity of fire and punishment in hell. For they have rejected the truth of God. In the theology of the church, there is good and evil. The good shall prosper in the presence of the Lord while the wicked will suffer in agony in hell. But what does the Father think of these lost souls? The words of Jesus give us a good example of this in the book of Luke. It is here that Jesus tells the parable of the lost sheep, and of the shepherd rejoicing when the wayward one is found {Lukes Account 15:4-6}. That shepherd is the Father, and that lost sheep represents those lost souls among us. For it has never been the Fathers desire that any should perish, but that all would come to the realization of the truth in Him {Paul to Timothy 2:4}. To speak of those lost souls is simply another lie which the mainstream church has perpetrated upon the Lords children. For they have never been lost. They may have not made the smartest decisions in life, but the Father has been in them from the beginning {Paul to the Romans 11:36}. There has never been even a moment in our lives that the Father was not a part of us. So how is it that we can speak of being lost? How is it that we can believe that God somehow has abandoned His own creation? Obviously, this is an error in our beliefs. Having grown up in the doctrine of the mainstream church, I can understand just where these beliefs begin. I too was once worried about becoming one of those lost souls. If I didn't behave in the right way. If I somehow didn't accept what the pastors told me. Would God consider me as lost? Knowing what I know today, I have come to realize the error of those beliefs.
"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and losing one of them, is not leaving the ninety-nine in the wilderness and is going after the lost one, that he may be finding it? And finding it, he is placing it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And coming into the house, he is calling together the friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice together with me that I found my sheep that was lost!"
Lukes Account 15: 4-6, Concordant New Testament
I believe that one of the biggest lies spoken by the mainstream church has been the theology that we have somehow been separated from the Father Who created us. Really? How can that which has been created suddenly not carry the fingerprints of its creator? How is it that we can look upon the world around us and not see what God has created? Indeed, if His creation is in Him and through Him then, as His creation, we are as well {Acts of the Apostles 17:28}. Knowing this truth, it is not possible that there are lost souls among us. There are indeed those whose own decisions have led them astray of God. Whether through unbelief or of not ever hearing of the truth of the Lord, the truth is that we have never been absent from the Father Who created us. In the film Come Sunday, the bishop Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his own church when he denies the existence of the hell so often preached by the mainstream church. Pearson is convinced that those who have for one reason or another never heard of the Lord or the gospel of Christ would not be abandoned by a Father Who loves them. For his beliefs, Carlton Pearson was expelled from his church. This has had me thinking lately, what would the churches reaction be to what I have to say? In all reality, I might just be ostracized just as the reverend Pearson was. But who is it that speaks against the Lord, he who speaks the truth of our life in the Father or those who continue to preach of our separation from Him? I already know that answer.
~Scott~
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