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I find this interesting also.

Why not go to another thread and enjoy other topics?

Jesus said that God's desire is that NO man would perish. Everyone has a chance at salvation, no matter where they're born or who their parents are. How this happens to those in pagan countries we aren't told, just that it happens. Everyone, there and here, has a chance. Some grab it but the majority reject it, even when it's right in front of them. One thing's for sure, many on this forum can't stand in front of God at the judgement and say 'I never heard'. Just in reading this forum you've heard.

Believe me folks, it would be an easier thing to do, just keep Faith under cover. be one of the regular cool, tough guys here.

We are told to spread good news, the Gospel.

Scientists are always looking for life 'out there'. The odds of it spontaneously happening here are 1 in billions. The odds of it happening a 2d time 'out there' are 1 in billions squared. The odds of happening twice are so low as to be completely ludicrous.

Thomas Paine died on June 8, 1809, in NYC and was buried on his property in New Rochelle. On his deathbed, his doctor asked him if he wished to accept Jesus Christ before passing. “I have no wish to believe on that subject,” Paine replied before taking his final breath.

Smug arrogance to the end.

He also said,

“I am not an atheist,” he began.

“The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the
position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in
many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.
It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they
are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the
arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to
me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but
only dimly understand these laws.”

Check out the Apostles Creed.

Furthermore, who would die for a lie? Many Apostles died for spreading what they knew was true.

This world, this time, this place, is no accident. God has a purpose for us.

Yep, we are to spread the Gospel, AND.......we are to serve our fellow man. I reckon that’s why we end up doing mission trips to places like Montana, along with trying to cover things in our own state.

Ah yes.....bassackwardsism.

Far more who were NOT apostles died for the Truth of the Gospel, and continue dying for those Truth's to this day, and will until the Lord returns.

These are "interesting" times, though many will not bend the knee until it's too late.

The point being I don't have to keep telling Christians that I'm a Christian, nor do I have to keep reminding myself.
Anyone interested in spreading the Gospel needs to spread it with non believers.

In his own words concerning his belief.................................


You may have an opinion that a man is inspired, but you cannot prove it, nor can you have any proof of it yourself, because you cannot see into his mind in order to know how he comes by his thoughts; and the same is the case with the word 'revelation.' There can be no evidence of such a thing, for you can no more prove revelation than you can prove what another man dreams of, neither can he prove it himself.

It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an imposter? For my own part, I believe that all are impostors who pretend to hold verbal communication with the Deity. It is the way by which the world has been imposed upon; but if you think otherwise you have the same right to your opinion that I have to mine, and must answer for it in the same manner. But all this does not settle the point, whether the Bible be the 'word of God,' or not. It is therefore necessary to go a step further. The case then is: --

You form your opinion of God from the account given of him in the Bible; and I form my opinion of the Bible from the wisdom and goodness of God manifested in the structure of the universe, and in all works of Creation. The result in these two cases will be, that you, by taking the Bible for your standard, will have a bad opinion of God; and I, by taking God for my standard, shall have a bad opinion of the Bible.

The Bible represents God to be a changeable, passionate, vindictive Being; making a world and then drowning it, afterwards repenting of what he had done, and promising not to do so again. Setting one nation to cut the throats of another, and stopping the course of the sun till the butchery should be done. But the works of God in the Creation preach to us another doctrine. In that vast volume we see nothing to give us the idea of a changeable, passionate, vindictive God; everything we there behold impresses us with a contrary idea, -- that of unchangeableness and of eternal order, harmony, and goodness. The sun and the seasons return at their appointed time, and everything in the Creation proclaims that God is unchangeable. Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the 'word of God,' or the Creation itself which none but an Almighty Power could make? For the Bible says one thing, and the Creation says the contrary. The Bible represents God with all the passions of a mortal, and the Creation proclaims him with all the attributes of a God.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. That bloodthirsty man, called the prophet Samuel, makes God to say, (i Sam. xv. 3,) "Now go and smite Amaleck, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."

I have what many Christians would consider a warped view of spirituality. So it’s a bit of a comfort to find I am not alone.

I can’t see the things I’ve seen & not be convinced there’s a higher power.

Plus some of the best & most successful men I’ve known have been devout in their faith. Even if you could prove it was just a big fairy tale, there’s power in submitting ourselves to a higher power that guides our thoughts, words & actions

Sorry brother, this is a great forum w/ lots of good info but not a stellar source of moral or spiritual guidance. Or medical or financial advice. Spirituality comes in many forms not included in a book.

mike r

Spirituality doesn't equal salvation.

I find this to be very true.
After years of religion from the organized church corporations, I'll take Spirituality over religious salvation.

And yet salvation is 100% spiritual and 0% physical/worldly.

Kent

That's what I was taught in church too but it seems many of the Christians here disagree with you.

Rom 10:9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

There it is in a nutshell. You believe or you don't. You're saved or you're not. There's no other option.