Don't judge God by man's action.....judge people by God....in fact we are called to judge ourselves and not others. Man has always twisted the word of God to fit their own comfort level or power trips and have gone in their own directions...or been blinded and deceived by the one who wants to destroy you and your eternity. Forever is a really really long time. If you stopped on the trail and reached down and pinched a little dirt and sifted it down to one grain and held it up to the sky. That would be a pale comparison of time as your life being the grain of sand and the rest of the earth and the sky and the cosmos beyond being eternity. What you do in this life determines where you spend that eternity. If you fool yourself into thinking that hell is not that bad or all of your friends will be there and you'll be hangin' out drinking and playing cards then that's really sad. If you think of what the worst, most painful way to die is, which is probably burning to death, and take that pain and anguish, and instead of burning in utter pain and dying, you just burn and burn and burn, forever. Sorry my brother, but THAT is a choice I'll not take or make. God is perfect and we and not. HIS ways are higher than ours. We fall short of his mark and have no way to keep all of the 10 commandments each and every day. That is why the Father gave his son as a perfect sacrifice to pay the price for my sins and yours, everybody's. Evangelizing is not cramming our beliefs down someone's throat, although a lot of good or well meaning Christians certainly lack the skills to present the Gospel correctly. Hipocracy is part of the mix, in that the imperfect are trying to "sell" the perfect. None of us deserve heaven but are offered it through the free gift of the sacrifice of God's own son. God uses the imperfect to give his message because that's what he wants and that's the way he will get it done. He could do it himself, but want's our participation, that's what we are called to do.
You are racing down Kitsuma on your fastest run ever, sun shining through the trees and there's a guy standing on the side of the trail walking his bike back up the trail who screams for you to stop because the next turn is washed out and caved in and you'll go off the side of the trail and get hurt of severely injured or even possibly die. Do you blow him off and blaze through not caring that's he's some lunatic, or slow down and check it out? Do you scream around a BRIDGE OUT sign knowing that the bridge was OK last time you drove through? If you saw a little kid with a box of rat poison, do you take it away from him even though you don't know him and he's not your responsibility or do you do the right thing?
If you don't believe or trust or care....take 2 seconds to ask God to show you whom he is.
