I don't write articles like this to be unkind; but rather, to wake people
up. Steve Jobs blatantly rejected Christianity. There is no doubt that Mr.
Jobs went to Hell. If you believe that the holy Bible is the inspired Word
of God, then you cannot argue the point. 1st John 2:22, “Who is a liar
but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth
the Father and the Son.”
1st John 4:1-4, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
As you've just read, anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and an antichrist. The Bible teaches in 1st John 4:1 for believers to try (test) every spirit, to see whether it is the Holy Spirit of God or a familiar spirit (demonic). There are only two sources of all spiritual power, guidance and knowledge: God or Satan. For example: The religion of Buddhism has a spirit of love, kindness and peaceful thoughts; however, the religion also totally rejects Jesus as the Christ, the only begotten Son of God. Therefore, we know Scripturally that Buddhism fails the test presented in 1st John 4:1-4. Buddhism is of the Devil. People often ask, “What gives you the right to criticize and tear down someone else's religion?” The answer is the Word of God...
Titus 1:10-13, “For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.”
The famous comedian Robin Williams commit suicide this week. I saw a sign outside a theatre on the news that said Robin Williams is now in Heaven making God laugh. My friend, God is not laughing because Mr. Williams almost assuredly went to Hell in his sins. Robin William's never got saved as far as I can tell. Certainly, there's a tiny chance that he got saved before he killed himself, but it is highly unlikely. I couldn't find any evidence of a profession of faith in Jesus Christ in William's life.
Jesus plainly warned in John 3:5-7, “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I
say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and
that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto
thee, Ye must be born again.” It is simply not true that everyone is
a child of God. Unsaved people think everyone goes to Heaven, but they
don't. Unless you get born-again by faith alone in Jesus Christ Who died on
the cross for your sins, you cannot go to Heaven.
Steve Jobs Wouldn't Heed the Word of God
Luke 24:25, “Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.”
Jesus called the two disciples on the road to Emmaus “fools” for being slow to believe the Scriptures. Apple computer founder, Steve Jobs, was at best religiously complicated and confused. He rejected Christianity outright and was a follower of the false religion of Zen Buddhism. Effectively, Jobs was an atheist because he rejected Christ as God. I mean, whether you believe in God or believe in a false god, effectively it's the same thing, because either way you've rejected the one true God of Israel.
All Muslims are atheists. Why? It's because Islam teaches that their god, Allah, has no son, so he couldn't have died on the cross for anyone's sins. In sharp contrast, Biblical Christianity is based upon the truth that God sent His only begotten (biological) Son into the world to die on the cross in our place (John 3:16-17), to pay our debt of sin (2nd Corinthians 5:21), so we could escape eternal damnation in the fires of Hell (Romans 5:9). Thank you Lord Jesus!!! Anyone who denies Jesus' deity (that He is almighty God Who came in the flesh, John 1:1-3,14; John 10:33) is an atheist.
Steve Jobs was born in Southern California to a Muslim Syrian immigrant and an American woman. However, the couple put Steve up for adoption and he was taken in by Paul and Clara Jobs.
Regarding Christianity, Jobs once told an interviewer that at age 13, he asked a preacher if God knew about starving children and the preacher replied that yes, God knew everything. Jobs never again considered Christianity.
So where did he go from there? Well, it seems like he was confused. He once said:
Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50-50 maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more. And I find myself believing a bit more. I kind of – maybe it’s cause I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated. Somehow it lives on.
At other times, he just sounds totally atheist:
I saw my life as an arc. And that it would end and compared to that nothing mattered. You’re born alone, you’re gonna die alone. And does anything else really matter? I mean what is it exactly, is it that you have to lose Steve? You know? There’s nothing.
What we do know was that Jobs was into Zen Buddhism. He regularly practiced meditation, traveled to India in search of a personal guru, and even had a Buddhist officiate his marriage in 1991.SOURCE: Steve Jobs' Religion and Political Views | Hollowverse
It makes me sad
to think that anyone is in Hell, burning in fire, but that is what the holy
Bible teaches. Unless your name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, you
will be cast into the Lake of Fire. Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever
was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
The Wicked Are Under God's Wrath and Go to Hell
I've heard Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists (all satanic religions) claim that the Hebrew word (“Sheol”) for hell in the Old Testament only means grave. The word means “realm of the dead.” It refers to the place where the wicked dead go, as proven by Psalms 9:17, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” If the wicked are turned into Hell, and Hell is only the grave, then this Scripture makes no sense at all, because the righteous also go to the same grave. Clearly the righteous do not go to the same place as do the wicked.
In English we call the place of eternal punishment “Hell.” The Greek is a more powerful language (similar to computer programming languages), so we actually have three different words in the Greek for Hell. Tartarus is where the demons go. The word Hades is the New Testament Greek equivalent to the Hebrew Sheol. The word Gehenna refers to the Lake of Fire, the home of the everlasting damned for all eternity (Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8). See the helpful book, “A BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF HELL” (.pdf file by Dr. Max D. Younce).
Salvation is 100% completely free, paid for by Jesus' precious blood. If you go to Hell it will be because you willfully chose to reject the free gift of eternal life by faith in the Son of God. God's grace is available to everyone, regardless of what sins you may have committed. If you want to be saved, God will forgive anybody who acknowledges their sinnership, placing their faith in Christ Who died on the cross for their sins. We are saved by GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS (Philippians 3:9; Romans 10:3-4; 4:5-6), and not by any human effort of our own (Titus 3:5; Ephesians 2:8-9).
According to John 3:18, you are already DAMNED (condemned) if you have not received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. Psalms 7:11 warns that God is angry with the wicked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. God's wrath is upon all unsaved people. Romans 5:9, “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Christ is our only hope of escaping the wrath of God upon all sinners, through the precious, literal, blood, of Jesus which He sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven in the Father's presence (Hebrews 9:12, 9:22-24; 12:24). John 3:36, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
I've just shared with you numerous Bible passages which teach that God is angry with the wicked. The “wicked” are those who have deliberately rejected God's offer of salvation by receiving Christ as one's personal Savior. If God is faithful, and He always is, then He cannot deny Himself. The price has been paid for your sins on the cross. Jesus paid it all. There are no strings attached to eternal life. Salvation is received, not achieved. It's all yours just for the taking. What a great Savior! But you must receive Christ or you do not have it. God never forces anyone to be saved, nor does He hinder people from getting saved. God never chooses who will or won't be saved.
Please understand that the only way to make God's anger go away from you is to appropriate the free gift of eternal life by faith in Christ Jesus. The very word “PROPITIATION” (modern corrupted versions have foolishly removed this doctrinal word). 1st John 2:2, “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
2nd Peter
2:1, “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there
shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves swift destruction.” I am totally awestruck
in amazement every time that I read 2nd Peter 2:1, which says that these
false prophets DENIED THE LORD WHO BOUGHT THEM!!! This evidences that Jesus
did indeed die for the whole world, including all Christ-rejecters and
blasphemers who deny Him.
Why People Won't Get Saved
We read in John 3:20, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” People love their sins and get comfortable living in them. Pharaoh chose to stay another day with the frogs than to let God's people go. People would rather live with the consequences and miseries caused by sin, in order to continue living in sin. It's not until a crime is committed and there is prison time, or an incurable STD is acquired, or a death or tragedy of some type that people finally begin to wake up from their addictions and vices. Everyone is a sinner! Even the best Christians are wicked sinners at times. We all sin every day of our life, both in deed and in thought. Not praying for others is a sin. 1st Samuel 12:23, “Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way.” There were 10,080 minutes in the past week, did you pray for anyone for even a single minute of that time? God knows and so do you.
