Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

I honestly can tell you that since i have looked into these doctrines, my faith has grown, my joy has grown, not the reverse. Although i know that some in this world are not of God’s sheep or elect i also know that God is fatihful, good and Holy in His actions.

My faith has grown in the understanding of who God is and His revelation to us. His Word is so clear that He is love and merciful and that He gave Jesus for all. If I were to take human reasoning and say that I love people and deserve them to be saved while God Himself doesn’t desire their salvation nor does He have an speck of saving love for them, then I would have more love and mercy for that person than God does. How on earth we can accept a doctrine that makes us more loving in some areas than God and more merciful than God in some areas just beats me. It is amazing that the Merciful God can be outdone by a mere human all for the sake of a doctrine of men that is only clearly found in the books written by men.

The sadness of this all amazes me. That there are people in the Christian world who are happy and content that they are of the elect and they do not care that their doctrine teaches that God deliberately and unconditionally creates people to go to hell.