{"id":5373,"date":"2025-06-06T02:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:05:17","slug":"the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5373","title":{"rendered":"The Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>The question to be asked is not: How can a loving God send anyone to hell?  The question that should be asked is:  How can a holy God let anyone into heaven?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>There is a way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>For he hath made him (Messiah Jesus)\u00a0to be\u00a0sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. II Corinthians 5:21<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Isaiah 53<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,&nbsp;there is&nbsp;no beauty that we should desire him.<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were&nbsp;our&nbsp;faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>But he&nbsp;was&nbsp;wounded for our transgressions,&nbsp;he was&nbsp;bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace&nbsp;was&nbsp;upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither&nbsp;was any&nbsp;deceit in his mouth.<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put&nbsp;him&nbsp;to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see&nbsp;his&nbsp;seed, he shall prolong&nbsp;his&nbsp;days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.<\/strong><\/em>  <em><strong>He shall see of the travail of his soul,&nbsp;and&nbsp;shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Therefore will I divide him&nbsp;a portion&nbsp;with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>&#8230;let the word of Christ <\/strong><\/em><strong>(Messiah Jesus)<\/strong><em><strong> dwell <\/strong><\/em><strong>(take up its life)<\/strong><em><strong> in you richly&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question to be asked is not: How can a loving God send anyone to hell? The question that should be asked is: How can a holy God let anyone into heaven? There is a way. 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