BlkPaladin said:
You arguement has some flaws in it so I will start there. First of Heaven/Hell, not all Christians believe there is a hell and the wagdes sin give is just death or inexistance. Plus the Bible brings out there are two(three) gifts that God gives the two major ones are pictured by the little/large flock that Jesus, John and Paul spoke about on a few occasions. The little flock gift is going to heaven where they will act as priests and judges with Jesus. The second larger flock will inherit the earth, after all that was God's orginal purpose for man and the earth and as Isaiah wrote God purpose never chages. (He compared God's word to the water cycle. That it will not come back to him unless it achieved.) And humans where never intended to go heaven. The next flaw is thinking all Christians are considered acceptable to God. Jesus spoke of the judgement in the parable of the Sheep and the Goats. What make this interesting is the goats plea to Jesus. "Didn't we speak in your name? Didn't we prophise in your name? Didn't we expell demons in your name? Didn't we preform many powerful works in your name?" So from these we can glean that they thought they were doing God's and Jesus' will, or by extension thought they were Christian. The way to tell false Christians from real could fill up a thesis so I will leave it at that. But that brings us to the third gift. Brought out in Acts 24:15 that there will be a resurection of not just the rightous but also the unrightous. These are those deemed that finished their lives and didn't have enough information or ability to make a choice. John futher covers this at John 5:28,29 that the resurrect unrightous will be resurrect to a resurrection of judgement. And this life they will be taught the ways of God and at the end of that time Satan will be released again to tempt these ones and at that time they will make their choice again. I have to get to work which is the reason I haven't fully articulated my arguement or put all the scriptures up. |
Bolded: I never claimed that all Christians believed in heaven and hell. I did say though that close to all did, which was an uneducated guess on my part. In any case, a general consensus seems to be that Christians tend to believe in a heaven and a hell, and I wanted to target the majority of them.
Italics: I am fairly certain that the "Result 2" in the OP got this part covered, in which I made it clear that religious practicing in no way makes sure or even increases the chances of entering heaven. I mean, only after death you will be able to have the complete information required to make a perfectly educated decision purely out of free will.
