05-08-2007, 07:23 PM
[quote kj]
I know you probably don't care, but something I've heard a lot is that it makes God sad when we don't do well. I would imagine it would really bum him out to ship people to hell, but that's part of free agency, in that we have been given that choice.
God is onmipotent. God created man. God gave man free-will. If God wanted us to all enter Heaven, then why didn't he make the rules such that it didn't matter what we did, or deny us the choice to not do that which would bar entry?
If the above is true, then he only has himself to blame. Not his creations.
And, no, I don't care.
[quote kj]
I haven't come in contact with many people who think only their denomination is "saved", but they probably exist.
Then you probably don't live in the south (i.e. the "Bible Belt").
[quote kj]I think they're wrong,
And they, you.
[quote kj]
There's a huge amount of diversity of belief among even the people in one church, not to mention all different churches, so to characterize them all based on jerry and pat seems awfully wrong to me. kj.
I would not characterize them all based on that. I was just stating that they are far from being on the fringe. Between them, they have TV stations, giga-churches, a university and a law school for starters.
I know you probably don't care, but something I've heard a lot is that it makes God sad when we don't do well. I would imagine it would really bum him out to ship people to hell, but that's part of free agency, in that we have been given that choice.
God is onmipotent. God created man. God gave man free-will. If God wanted us to all enter Heaven, then why didn't he make the rules such that it didn't matter what we did, or deny us the choice to not do that which would bar entry?
If the above is true, then he only has himself to blame. Not his creations.
And, no, I don't care.
[quote kj]
I haven't come in contact with many people who think only their denomination is "saved", but they probably exist.
Then you probably don't live in the south (i.e. the "Bible Belt").
[quote kj]I think they're wrong,
And they, you.
[quote kj]
There's a huge amount of diversity of belief among even the people in one church, not to mention all different churches, so to characterize them all based on jerry and pat seems awfully wrong to me. kj.
I would not characterize them all based on that. I was just stating that they are far from being on the fringe. Between them, they have TV stations, giga-churches, a university and a law school for starters.