Ezekiel 18:23
Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “ and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
Ezekiel 18:31-32 Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” says the Lord God. “Therefore turn and live!”
Mark 1:14-15 14 Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 and saying, “ The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
God has always called us to turn from sin to Him (repentance). It is not His intention that we die in our sin and have to be separated from Him (hell) after we die - so Jesus not only began by telling us to repent, but also to believe the good news, the gospel. God was in Himself reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, and we must turn and believe, accepting all He said and did for us.
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