"you can't save everyone"

[HillGoose]

i'm a bad person who only does bad things and has no morals but it makes me so mad to think about how i cant save everyone who needs it i just cant.

so many children are growing up with parents who are addicts like my brother and I did but i cant save them all and they wont all escape the things their parents did to them.

so many teenagers hate themselves because they cant be heterosexual and their family and friends and church make them hate themselves more for it and they feel all alone and they wont all get through it and i cant save them either.

there are lots of people who are living their entire lives based on lies that bad people have told them and its going to end up hurting them but i cant stop it, i just cant because its not possible to save everyone.

i am a bad person and have no morals but even i wouldn't send people to hell so what does that say about god???

all i want to do is save everyone but i cant bcuz there is too much evil its just too much evil and i cant fix it all

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

God isn't just love; he is also perfect justice.  As such, it's not surprising he would levy out punishments none of us could imagine doing.  God cares infinitely more about justice than any of us, and this is reflected in the harshness with which he judges sin.

While justice and mercy seem at odds with each other, we see the perfect reconciliation of these two divine attributes at the cross:  Jesus took our penalty and bore our iniquities, so that on Judgment Day, God could look at us and see Christ's righteousness imputed to our account instead of our sin.  God became a man and took the punishment in our place, because justice had to be done.

[Blue3]

Retribution is never justice.

(and you can say Jesus died for our sins... but to say that was justice isn't true... if Jesus came back, everyone knew it was him, he walked into a place doing the death penalty, and said "execute me, not this convicted murderer", and it happened, that isn't justice.)

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Retribution is never justice.

(and you can say Jesus died for our sins... but to say that was justice isn't true... if Jesus came back, everyone knew it was him, he walked into a place doing the death penalty, and said "execute me, not this convicted murderer", and it happened, that isn't justice.)

That's the point.  The justice we deserve inflicted on us was instead inflicted upon Jesus on the cross.  Therefore God could still give the just penalty for sin and be merciful at the same time because he transferred the justice we deserved onto himself.  

As far as "retribution is never justice" is concerned, the Bible speaks of God being angry with the wicked every day.  One element of God's perfect holiness is his wrath against sin, and that manifests itself in his divine punishment.  So for God's perfect justice to remain intact, he had to transfer the punishment onto himself.

[°Leprechaun]

Retribution is never justice.

(and you can say Jesus died for our sins... but to say that was justice isn't true... if Jesus came back, everyone knew it was him, he walked into a place doing the death penalty, and said "execute me, not this convicted murderer", and it happened, that isn't justice.)

That's the point.  The justice we deserve inflicted on us was instead inflicted upon Jesus on the cross.  Therefore God could still give the just penalty for sin and be merciful at the same time because he transferred the justice we deserved onto himself.  

As far as "retribution is never justice" is concerned, the Bible speaks of God being angry with the wicked every day.  One element of God's perfect holiness is his wrath against sin, and that manifests itself in his divine punishment.  So for God's perfect justice to remain intact, he had to transfer the punishment onto himself.

The cross is reason enough not to be a Christian. It is a gruesome theology and that's putting it mildly.

[its_always_beets]

i'm a bad person who only does bad things and has no morals but it makes me so mad to think about how i cant save everyone who needs it i just cant.

so many children are growing up with parents who are addicts like my brother and I did but i cant save them all and they wont all escape the things their parents did to them.

so many teenagers hate themselves because they cant be heterosexual and their family and friends and church make them hate themselves more for it and they feel all alone and they wont all get through it and i cant save them either.

there are lots of people who are living their entire lives based on lies that bad people have told them and its going to end up hurting them but i cant stop it, i just cant because its not possible to save everyone.

i am a bad person and have no morals but even i wouldn't send people to hell so what does that say about god???

all i want to do is save everyone but i cant bcuz there is too much evil its just too much evil and i cant fix it all

I understand where you're coming from, but the harsh reality of it is that no one can save everyone. No person is great enough to take on such a feat. It's not completely hopeless, though; just because you can't save the world doesn't mean you can't save a few people. Just do what you can, and you'll change someone's world. I promise.