While I might have touched on this before in other threads, it was this post in another thread that inspired me to make this thread:
"I just hope there is an afterlife so I can laugh at all the atheist/communist and yell, atheism is the opiate of the morons... MWAHAHAHA"
So, in much of the Christian faith, you can commit any evil sin under the sun (or in darkness), but will be forgiven if you "repent" and accept Jesus Christ as your savior.
Now, it seems that fear of death might make many commit to JC. But, usually, you are what you are. And although you might be "good" for a while, ultimately if you had it in you to murder, rape, rob or just be malicious, without real extraneous circumstances, how likely is it that you will remain so?
For eternity.
Take the post I quoted above. It's nothing sort of malicious and spiteful, but I am sure he/she truly believes they will get into heaven because they pray for forgiveness of their sins.
So lets postulate that they do get into heaven.
Now what? You have a heaven filled with people who did despicable acts, but were forgiven; because they repented and accepted JC as their saviour. But as time goes by, they revert to their true nature.
What happens then?
"I just hope there is an afterlife so I can laugh at all the atheist/communist and yell, atheism is the opiate of the morons... MWAHAHAHA"
So, in much of the Christian faith, you can commit any evil sin under the sun (or in darkness), but will be forgiven if you "repent" and accept Jesus Christ as your savior.
Now, it seems that fear of death might make many commit to JC. But, usually, you are what you are. And although you might be "good" for a while, ultimately if you had it in you to murder, rape, rob or just be malicious, without real extraneous circumstances, how likely is it that you will remain so?
For eternity.
Take the post I quoted above. It's nothing sort of malicious and spiteful, but I am sure he/she truly believes they will get into heaven because they pray for forgiveness of their sins.
So lets postulate that they do get into heaven.
Now what? You have a heaven filled with people who did despicable acts, but were forgiven; because they repented and accepted JC as their saviour. But as time goes by, they revert to their true nature.
What happens then?