----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 12:29 PM Subject: Re: New Hate-Mongering Chick Tract is out
> Travis Edmunds wrote: > > > > This is funny. Yes, it is decidedly unchristian to give much thought to > > people who *sin*, or to people of other religions (meaning that every > > religion is THE religion) going to Hell, Hades, the 'fiery deeps', or > > whatever you want to call it. Although...on second thought I will call > > it Hell as we are after all talking about Christianity. Anyway, my point > > is this - the actual belief that sinners and everyone else who for > > whatever reason cannot make it into Heaven (supposedly most go to > > Purgatory) is a key part of Christian dogma. > > No, that's a part of church-ianity dogma. Christ taught quite the > opposite -- that God loves us in our failures. It seems that many > churches only give lip service to the unconditional love that the Bible > illustrates in parable after parable. Instead the message comes out > that you must repent before you can be forgiven, which is backwards from > the gospel. > > The good news is that we are acceptable to God exactly as we are. > Jesus' harshest words were for the self-righteous, who rejected that idea. > I might add to that that milder Christians seem to understand that much better than most fundamentalists. xponent Beatitudes Maru rob
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