A SOUL GOD CREATED...SUB-HUMAN? WHAT?!!

As we approach Easter, I have been thinking quite a bit about Christ’s love and forgiveness and what that truly means not only in my own life but in relation to the lives of others, including those who many feel do not deserve it. I recently saw a Facebook post by Ben Furguson regarding a mass shooter. In the post, he referred to the shooter as “sub-human.” Let me say that I to no, in any way, condone mass shootings. They are wrong. However, for Ben Furguson, someone who claims to be a Christian, to refer to anyone as sub-human, his misunderstanding of Christ’s death on the cross is clear. I recently heard someone say that we do not have a soul, but rather we are a soul and have a body. The simple fact of the matter is that everyone is equally deserving of the fires of hell, and Ben Furguson’s sin is no better than a mass shooter. Neither is mine. Without the forgiveness of Christ, we take equal places in hell. No one gets a better place in hell simply because they lived a slightly better life in human eyes just as no one gets into heaven because of anything they have or have not done. I was horrified by how many people who took the religious status of “Christian” on their pages agreed with Ben Furguson. My view may not be the typical conservative view, but for that I am thankful. My view is Christ’s view. His forgiveness is offered to anyone who will receive it. It is wrong to believe and say that anyone is beyond God’s forgiveness. Even a mass shooter can receive Christ and spend eternity with him if he repents. It is ironic to think that there will be murderers in heaven and people who lived relatively good lives in hell, but this is exactly the case. I do not condone sin, especially murder, and justice should be carried out; but to refer to anyone as sub-human is to make a mockery of Christ’s death on the cross. His forgiveness was not merely for the “best” of sins but also for the “worst” of sins. We must begin to see people as souls no matter the sin they have struggled with or still do struggle with. We are all deserving of hell. Heaven and eternity with Christ are far above anything we could ever deserve, and we are hypocritical to refer to anyone but ourselves as “sub-human.”