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Originally Posted by Grant  Lets do a little analogy. Say I've been sneaking out of my house every night and getting stoned. I've been doing it my whole life. One night, I decide to come clean with my parents and ask for forgivness from them. If I'm sincerely repentant, would I keep sneaking off? No. I would make an effort to live right. |
]But you made an apples vs oranges analogy compared to mine. They are so different it's almost tough to see how we're even talking about the same subject.
I'll make it simple. In your analogy, the person is only hurting themself. In mine they killed an entire family.
In your analogy the person did it for a short period of time. In mine we're talking about someone who lived their life doing everything christians are told not to, not just one thing. And he gets the same heaven you all get. Forget how unfair that is, because truth be told it flat out doesn't even make sense.
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Originally Posted by Grant Its not that the 60-year-old man would DESERVE to go to Heaven. Thats one of the distinctive things about Christianity. You don't earn it. But at the same time you shouldn't continue doing all the bad stuff. The analogy you just read should clear that up. |
Read what you just said back to yourself. The old man didn't earn it, he doesn't deserve it, but he gets it anyway. Just as long as he stops before he dies.
Now why do you think christianity needs such a gaping loophole in it for it to work? I have to admit I agree with SithLord, you can't control people that believe they aren't even worthy to be controlled. Religious leaders needed a way to convert people who they once justified their willingness to kill because they were so against God's teachings.
It sounds a bit too much like one of those no credit, no money, no problem car salesman pitches..... No good life? No compassion? No respect for human life? No problem! Just mosey on down to God's heaven shack and you'll be saved! All we ask in return is your absolute belief and that you obey us without question
... what's that? You broke every rule we tell everyone that already believes us not to break? So what! At God's heaven shack your blind obedience is all the currency you need
