Ezekiel 36:26-27 “ 26  I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27  And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes and to carefully observe My ordinances.” - Berean Standard Bible Here you see that God promises the rebellious Israelites, through Ezekiel, that He will give them a new heart and put a new spirit in them and that He will remove their heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh. So then, ‘Christian, you who believe in everlasting damnation, who do you think gave them their petrified hearts and evil spirits in the first place? Could they do it by themselves? No. And what does verse 27 in effect say? It says that the Israelites did not obey His laws and did not follow His decrees, because HE prevented them to, just as when HE prevented Pharaoh to let them go. Only when one is filled with HIS Spirit can one obey His laws and follow His decrees. Notice also that God does not say when He’ll do that. It’s HIS prerogative to do everything He wants to whenever He wants to. The Bible is ALL about timing and whatever anyone is thinking, or doing, or saying is slotted in the exact time. Where do you think wars come from? From thoughts, as far back as one individual! Ecclesiastes 3:1 & 8 “ 1  To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven…. 8  a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.” - Berean Standard Bible Every action from anyone has implications, not only for oneself, but also for the outside world, the effects of which cover a cascade of other actions. A neglected child can carry the pain of this neglect into adulthood, even into old age, leaving a constant trail of spiritual erosion and buried feelings. It can even lead to global conflict. Do a little homework and check the histories of totalitarians. Nothing happens haphazardly, but everything has its root in the God of the Bible, the creator of all, who also uses evil for the sake of fulfilling His goal of ultimate global joy for all people on planet earth! For argument’s sake, would you parrot others who scorn someone whom you know had a painfully neglected and abusive childhood? No. You would have empathy for that someone. To be well-informed on a multidisciplinary basis opens many doors towards understanding. Then both the aggressor and aggressee will be seen with empathy. Empaths are what the world needs, not parroting copycats! A world full of empaths will be a world without wars. In heaven there’ll be no wars, only love! Why not start here already and see how a battered world grows towards an enjoyable world? And yet, everyone will have to give account before Christ, whether still here on earth, or hereafter! Paul and his followers suffered here already ( 1 Corinthians 11:32 ). Isaiah 55:8-9 “ 8  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. 9  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.” - Berean Standard Bible We addressed the “evil” part and now the “judgement” part. Why would God induce evil doings of someone and still, on top of it, judge that someone by means of His painful disciplinary hand afterwards? Why not having made all people obedient in the first place and all would have had heaven on earth already? With the Almighty God it’s all about the fruit of the Holy Spirit ( Galatians 5:22-23 ). Adam and Eve had total peace in Paradise as there was no law. Their obedience was a given, but that had to change, since God’s prime reason for having created humanity has not come into effect yet. Adam and Eve had to become disobedient. God created humanity primarily to anxiously SEEK Him, GROPE FOR Him and FIND Him. And the one verse in the Bible that describes this triple goal of God is Acts 17:27 . But, this very verse in ALL Bible versions expresses the lying pen of scribes, as the “ FIND ” part is obscured with doubt, therefore finding Christ to be questionable, blatantly slandering the Messiah! Below is what virtually all versions look like, scribes scrambling around this verse in panic, resorting to the only way to conceal God’s loving grace by adding their ”perhaps’s” and “mights”. To conceal God’s saving act of grace to all humanity in finding Him, reflected in this verse, is what’s on their agenda! The verse below (and all the others) is simply appalling. Acts 17:27 “to seek God, if perhaps indeed they might palpate for Him, and might find Him. And indeed, He is not far from each one of us.” - Berean Literal Bible To SEEK Him, to anxiously GROPE for Him and to FIND Him! Because of all the incongruence around this verse, I decided to give my own version here below, transliterated from the Westcott & Hort 1880 Greek version: Acts 17:27 “ζητεῖν τὸν θεὸν εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν, καί γε οὐ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα.” - Westcott & Hort 1880 What God in His Magnificence has to offer in terms of joy is beyond the comprehension of the human mind. Purity of His children is imperative to be worthy of their incredible inheritance in Him. Suffering and endurance build character ( Romans 5:3-5 ) and in order for this suffering to take place, there must be a trespass. Before creation already God has painstakingly woven a unique tapestry for each of His begotten children, a tapestry with both bright and dark patches, the dark patches being suffering. God knew beforehand the threshold each would be able to handle, therefore it was custom made for each. And as the verse says, He will be not far from anybody. Besides, should you have been given the choice of another’s suffering bag, what would you choose? Your own bag! And your trespasses? Nobody wants to trespass, it just happens! Who will seek God and anxiously grope for Him? Those who are in turmoil and intense pain. Those who have nowhere else to go. Adam and Eve desperately needed God after He wasn’t in their midst anymore. Adam and Eve were in Paradise with God, but they did not know it. They did not know what they had in Him, the Almighty Loving God of the universe, and took Him for granted. Adam and Eve had to taste God’s wrath and had to need His mercy. God’s mercy can only come into play after God’s wrath. And God’s wrath only always revolves around disobedience . See Ephesians 5:6 below. Ephesians 5:6 “Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience .” - Berean Standard Bible And take note here please, the “ sons of disobedience ” in this verse are metaphorically used and equally refer to God’s daughters as well. It behooves God the Potter to make from the same lump of clay both something for honourable- and dishonourable use alike ( Romans 9:21 ). Moreover, the wrath of God always revolves around disobedience ( John 3:36 ). In Paradise there is no law, only LOVE. And because of the sin of Adam and Eve, the Mosaic law came into effect and so did God’s wrath and mercy alike. Romans 5:20 “Now the law came in to increase the trespass , but where sin increased , grace abounded all the more ,” - English Standard Bible That’s why Christ came to earth to fulfil the Mosaic law, which resulted in God’s (Christ’s) reconciliation with ALL mankind ( 2 Corinthians 5:19 ) from HIS side, not from the world’s side, important to note! Reconciliation of the world is still on the table. Since God is Sovereign, He can show mercy to anyone He wants to and this of course means that He has the prerogative to induce any kind of trespass to anyone He wants to, fitting that mercy ( Romans 9:15 ). So, in God’s fairness, It’s all about Him salting everyone with fire ( Mark 9:49 ) in purifying all His children, Him being that fire ( Hebrews 12:29 ) ! Even though ALL are God’s children, not all have received Him (yet). John 1:10-13 “ 10  He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. 11  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him . 12  But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God— 13  children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.” - Berean Standard Bible God knew beforehand the pain threshold each would be able to handle, therefore everyone’s threshold was custom made. And as the verse says, He will be not far from anybody. Should you have been given the choice of another’s sufferings, what would you choose? Your own. And your trespasses? Nobody wants to trespass, it just happens, because God knows what He’s doing and that everyone will be tried. It’s time to seek for the TRUE Christ, to get covered with HIS protective armour. May God let you seek Him NOW!