If God is good and God is love, but only a few find eternal life, can that really agree?
I fought this for several years. I experienced god in what the Bible said he was. Jesus was my everything. I would pray and seek god daily, and worship god often. I would pray for my loved ones, and for many others. I wanted revival for them. I lived a life of peace and joy. But, there were also times of backsliding and dealing with doubt and unbelief. And also leaving faith completely to do my own thing. At this time, I believe in a higher power. I believe in Christian principles. I don’t agree with everything I have read in the Bible. I have found errors and also researched them in my life. I found out there is truth in the Bible, but it isn’t all true. And for many years, my life was wrecked with confusion and depression, not understanding why my faith didn’t work. Today I have found my peace. I have come to understand that there is a creator, but I cannot determine the truth about our creator. I know our creator’s voice, but I’m not sure about our creator’s actual truths and what is actually real and what isn’t yet, according to life. I’m learning. But, the Bible did create the path and blueprint for the faith I have now. It gave me a way to get what I need. So, I am taking this step by step, and learning a true walk with our creator from my own journey through out life, as god chooses to lead me.
But, this is one question I battled for several years. If god is good and god is love, but Jesus said only few find eternal life, how is that possible? Wouldn’t it make sense if god is good and he is love, that the majority of his creation would be saved? Why would a good and loving god destroy the majority of his creation in a lake of fire and eternal torment? I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t fit the definition of being good and love. It also doesn’t fit the experience of the goodness I know from my own experience with the presence of a good and loving god. Did god create us to hate us? I don’t believe god did. And I don’t believe most people go to hell. That would make god a liar and devil himself. That would make his promises void and untrue. I believe we reap what we sow. I believe choices have consequences. But, I also believe god is better than that than to just let most people go to hell. Wouldn’t that make Satan stronger than god? And wouldn’t eternity be sad for everyone, whether they were in hell or with god? Could anyone with god truly be happy forever without the majority of their loved ones? That doesn’t make sense- that doesn’t agree with sound logic. So, I have come to the conclusion that if that is true according to the Bible, and most people go to hell, I no longer want that in my life, because eternity is going to be devastating either way. So, I have put what I have learned behind me, and I am pressing forward believing that the god I know is good, and most people do not go to hell. You can believe whatever you want- I am sure you have your own opinion and understanding, but you can’t tell me that god is good and loving, yet he is sending most people to hell and that is just the way it is and going to be. I have better things to do than live in that torment, don’t you? So, I have found to let that worry and fear go, and to strive to live my life without as much regret as possible, so I can enter into life with joy and hope, and not disappointment and frustration. Whatever you believe is your right, but I hope you can understand that this will never make sense in a way that works, that god is good and love, yet he is sending most people to hell. Be blessed.
Thought for today, April 6th, 2026
I thought I knew it all. I thought I was sure and I had everything I wanted. But I found out I needed to reevaluate everything. I was wrong. And I was taught wrong. But now I’m learning what is faithful and what makes life worth it. I went through so much on my Christian journey. From amazing and beautiful times to times living in torment I couldn’t explain. It was a long a difficult road. When I was a younger man, I prayed to God that He would give me an adventure of faith. Adventures can have many things involved in them. Sometimes in an adventure, there can be peril. And the Bible tells us we face trials. And I know for certain, as it is written in the Bible, we are living in perilous times. So, I will share my experiences and testimony as a believer in Jesus Christ. And I hope to encourage you and shed light on what a Christian is and what actually works in the Bible for anyone seeking to understand what this life is about and what we should do to make the most of what we can with what we have. Whether the current age ends and life brings us whatever today has for us, or whether we are searching to understand what is coming or not, I pray as you read this you will find insight that is helpful in your walk with searching for understanding. May you be blessed by what I give you; and may you receive something that changes your life for the better so you can live in peace, joy, righteousness, truth, and freedom. Thank you.
I gave my heart to Christ at 12 years old in summer after school had just ended for the year in 1991. I started out going to the Baptist church. When I was a senior in high school, I left the Baptist church and started going to a church of God after I had encountered pentecost at a youth revival at my cousin’s church. I married a classmate who graduated with me in 1998. In 1999, on our one year anniversary, I encountered God and was hospitalized and diagnosed bipolar and schizoaffective. I had to start taking medication for it. In the Christmas season of 2000, I made a choice that changed my life forever. In that time, I had “disobeyed” the Holy Spirit. I was later divorced in 2001. In early 2002, I attempted suicide by drinking brake fluid. I recovered and attempted suicide again in 2005, drinking lighter fluid. I never attempted suicide again after that, but I did contemplate it several times after that throughout the years. I was called to preach the gospel. Many ups and downs from the time I was divorced until just recently this year when my faith changed forever and I started walking a new path, learning to follow a new creed. I have studied the Bible for years. I almost know it like the back of my hand. I can find scripture easily and remember much of it to quote it. I learned through all these years that faith is something that is definitely tested, but also formed by learning from what is written in the Bible, mixed with experiences that come from applying what is written in Scripture in real life. And I found things in real life that didn’t correlate with Scripture. So, this blog will be my attempt to shed light on the “truths” found in the bible, to illuminate your own experience and understanding and to help anyone curious about the Christian faith and knowing what God really is and what God really does. I pray as you consider these things in your mind and heart, that you will deepen your own beliefs in what is actually true and be able to let go of what isn’t. Today is a new beginning for me, and I hope it leads you to one also.
A Home Unknown
Don’t build my head up and build my heart up, too
Please, remember, I want to live-
Don’t send them crashing through
I once found living a way of making a journey
Then, in came chaos and I prayed for some mercy
If my lesson’s just to grow
Then why am I losing treasures?
If knowledge is to deepen
Then why must I choose my pleasures?
Must I die to live and live to die-
All for the sake of a higher mind?
What about “me” makes “me” so “important”
If I cannot live for the way that I’m searching?
Can love be taught by a hateful heart?
Should mercy be given, just to bind it up?
If “this” is “life”, and we’re all “alone”
Then why are we “fighting”, for a “home unknown”
Erik Sullivan
2-11-2020
12:12pm