God says what he means, and means what he says in his word.

There seems to be some areas of confusion operating amongst certain areas of Christianity over what God was trying to tell us in his word?

There seems to be the mistaken belief that somehow or another we are able to twist the words of God contained in the Holy Scriptures - even if that be ever so slightly - and that by doing so we change its meaning just to suite our own somewhat twisted viewpoints.

Without wishing to rant and rave again over the rapture of the church debate all over again, a prime example of this is the rapture debate.

With reference to the debate over the Mark of the Beast, I have just received an email from a friend who seemed to suggest that the word of God could somehow be compromised, or twisted around so that it could be made to say what it actually did not.

Even though there are no doubts whatsoever those that take the Mark of the Beast are destined for eternal damnation, He seemed to be inferring there would be the case for exclusion (in some instances) from what God had written in his word.

The excuse being that just because a person may have been innocent or naive relative to the consequences of taking the Mark of the Beast there was somehow the chance for a compromise when there is nothing of the such like written in the word of God.

What that sort of statement infers is that even though God had written something in his word it could be compromised at a later time. If that were the case then everything that had been written in the word of God could be negotiated at a later date, when that is simply not the case.

His wording went something along the following lines

You really think God would damn someone who innocently took a chip that later was used for the mark? Is that what a just God would do, punish you for eternity for being naive or even deceived?

There are no excuses when it comes to the word of God. When God wrote his word he said what he meant, and meant what he said, and if he said that those that take the Mark or determined for eternal hellfire, then he meant what he had said.

There are no ifs or buts or maybes, and if God said that those that take the mark are determined to spend eternity in hellfire, then those are the facts of the matter, (as has been mentioned aforesaid) and those that think any differently are simply barking up the wrong tree by twisting the word of God just to suite one's own purposes, which is not a very wise thing to do.

After all, if those that have come to such a point relative to the Mark of the what else can one also make excuses over by saying that was not really what God had meant by what he had written in his word.

Are we then going to say that the countless other sins that are mentioned in the Bible can also be excused?

If that were the case then there would have been no reason whatsoever for Christ to have come into the world so that our sins could be forgiven.

That is not to say that I do not believe that God is a loving and forgiving type of God but if he said in his word that those that take the Mark are determined for Hellfire then that is what he meant, as harsh as that might seem to be.

It's there for all to read in black and white those that take the Mark of the Beast are determined to spend eternity in Hellfire, there are no excuses, not now, or not ever.

Revelation Chapter 14, Verse 9 to 12
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Those that worship the Beast and take his mark are determined for eternal damnation that's what the scripture says.

Therefore, there would have to be the dual sin of the worship of the Beast and the taking of the Mark before a person would be sent to eternal damnation

However the fundamentalist Born Again Christian would not worship the Beast -- therefore the Christian would not take the Mark. But that verse still says that anyone who takes the Mark is determined for eternal damnation, and there are no excuses not know or not ever, and so please be warned before it is too late.