What does the Bible say about eternity and salvation?

This life is just the beginning of a long eternity. The choices we make in this life have eternal significance. Not making a choice to believe in God is also a choice.

 

As mentioned earlier, we have been given free will, and this is because; In His creation, God desired us!

 

He desired us humans to live with Him in a true and voluntary relationship, and in a true and voluntary love. He could have created us as robots and programmed us to always show Him love, but that would not have been genuine. Just as God is genuine and His love for us is genuine, we must genuinely choose Him.

 

If we choose not to believe, we continue as before under the judgment brought upon us by the first two humans, Adam and Eve. God had given them all dominion over the earth, and His plan was for us to have daily fellowship with Him. He gave them only one command, which was not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They broke this command when the devil deceived them into eating from it. Thus, they gave up the dominion God had given them and became subject to the devil, whom the Bible also calls the god of this world. Humanity lives under this original sin until the day of salvation when Jesus comes again for the second and final time.

 

Those who before that day die or before that day Jesus comes again, and who have chosen to believe in God and believe that Jesus is the only way to salvation, are saved for eternity. Those who choose not to believe or choose not to make this choice remain under eternal damnation forever.

 

God is good, and He is love itself, that is why He gives you both freedom and grace. Freedom to choose, and salvation by grace alone. One cannot earn salvation; it is only by faith in God and in the Lord Jesus that sets one free. Salvation is a free gift that we can choose to accept or choose not to accept.

 

Some may wish to change God's character to fit their own imagined image of how God should be, but God's character and His Word, the Bible, cannot be changed. He is the one who has set everything in motion and who has set the rules for the beginning and end of life. He is the same from eternity past, and He is the same for all eternity. It is we humans who have messed things up, and God does what He can to save us from damnation, with the prerequisites He has set in advance. Earth and we humans are subject to evil, so we do evil things. This is not God's will, and that is why He has given us His plan of salvation through Jesus' death on the cross and His resurrection from the dead.

 

In short: We need salvation in Jesus Christ to avoid eternal damnation, which is meant only for the devil and his demons. Therefore, today, you should ask God to save you for eternity!