You may have heard of “works salvation,” but have you heard of “works damnation?” It is the belief that man has to work to be damned. It goes something like this:
God’s revelation of Himself is so clear one has to WORK to trade that truth in for lies. (Romans 1)
The gospel message is so appealing one has to WORK to grow calloused and blinded to the truth of its message. (2 Cor. 5)
The bible’s purpose is so clearly given to mankind so that they may believe and have life in His name, a person has to WORK to avoid the scripture’s purpose. (John 20:31)
People perish because they WORK to refuse the truth so as to be saved. (2 Thess. 2:10)
People fail to enter the promise land because they WORK to remain in their unbelief. (Heb. 3:19)
People become unable to see, hear, understand and repent because they WORK to reject the truth again and again growing calloused to it over years. (Acts 28:27-28)
Refusing to surrender takes more WORK than giving up. Trying to make your own way out of the pigsty instead of admitting defeat and returning home in humiliation is much more WORK. (Luke 15)
Pursuing righteousness as if it is attained by works instead of pursuing it as if it attained by faith is a lot more WORK! (Romans 9:30-32)
It takes more WORK, more blind faith, to be an atheist than a believer. <LINK>
I don’t believe in works salvation, but I most certainly believe in works damnation. No one will be in hell that didn’t work hard to get there!
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce