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Originally Posted by usgrant7
There are three types of people who have never heard of Christianity.... But what kind of system would that be if all the hearer had to do was avoid the message, and therefore be declared guiltless. Right? So there must be another dimension. I submit to you, that if Quasim Ismi deep in the Congo, looked up into heaven and asked for a sign, and God deemed his heart to be authentic (having faith), God would shoot down a Christian bush pilot, and cause Quasim to hear the Gospel. (And the pilot would be happy about it.)
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So, what you have outlined is a rationalization for why a person can live as nearly perfect a life as possible, believing in what s/he thinks is a valid religion, only to be cast into hell upon death for having guessed wrong about their religion.
Believe that if you must. I simply cannot respect a being that would play by those rules.
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As for Hinduism and all the other *isms. The argument isn’t that there are so many, but rather, there is so many alike and only one that is unique.
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So being "unique" is supposed to be enough of a clue to base one's eternal fate on? Now you're consigning people to hell for the "sin" of not paying close attention.
There is nothing moral about any of that.
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(Are you sure you read C.S. Lewis? He covers this point rather well.)
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Twasn't me claiming to have read him. The only C.S. Lewis I've read is the Narnia series and his space trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, etc.).
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I beg to differ. God’s intensions were so clear that these “religions” you speak of are still killing Christians today.
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That has nothing to do with "God's intentions" and everything to do with people not liking any group that upsets the apple cart -- or simply believes something different from themselves. It's not like Christians have always been above repressing other religions.
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There comes a time where I have to admit I can’t see into the hearts of men. I must relinquish my right to second guess God, and start focusing on my own responsibility to him.
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And that's fine. You can believe anything you like as long as you apply it only to yourself. But I don't see how you can be surprised that people might find the God you've described in this thread to be rather distasteful and unworthy of praise.