Why Christianity is Fundamentally Flawed

[appolose]

appolose said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

 In case you haven't already noticed it yourself, here is the flaw that I find in all this: The first result suggests that teaching a child about Christianity increases its chances of entering heaven. The free will does not have full control of whether you enter heaven or hell, and outer influences will affect where you end up in your afterlife, thus giving an unfair disadvantage to those not exposed to proper Christian teachings. An important conclusion that one may draw here is that the more countries/people that would be properly educated about Christianity, the more people would go to heaven. In other words: Their (the non-/false believers') free will does not have full control over their final destination, but are directly affected by the "proper" believers' free wills. Again, this is unfair.

The second result suggests that outer influences has no effect on whether you end up in heaven or hell at all. No teachings gained from outer influences can be accounted for since they have no effect on your actual free will. If they did, then that would suggest that people with "better" outer influences (which they obviously have no control over) would also have a better chance of entering heaven, which would be an unfair advantage. An important conclusion that one may draw at this point is that all religious practicing might as well be disregarded since they will not affect your chances of entering heaven anyway. In other words: Religious practicing would ultimately be pointless.

 

This, my fellow VGCharterz, makes no sense to me.

I think the first result may actually not be as unfair as it seems.

While I agree that, if we assume that external factors can influence free will, a person mightmake the choice to be saved or not based on the information he is again, I do not think that means it was unfair.  A Christian viewpoint of free will one might have is that, while desires or motivations can make a choice more easy or difficult, free will is ultimately responsible.  That is, no matter the pressure or temptation to make a decision, a free-willed person can still go the other direction.  Therefore, if someone has at least the choice to be saved available to them at all, then they have enough.  That some other person might have more motivation to make the better choice does not lift responsibility from him. 

I'll just quote myself here, for noticing sake.