03-08-2004, 11:41 PM
I want to know why accepting jesus is the deciding factor. Why would god make a decision like that when it's obvious some guy coming along saying "Hi there! Lovely day isn't it? By the way.. I'm the son of god, accept my teachings or burn in hell.." is going to come off as a tad on the blasphemous side, even without the benefit of being omniscient. Like that guy warning the villagers about not killing a she-camel, because it was gods she-camel (taken from the koran). They did, god killed them all, and razed their village to the ground. Again: How are they supposed to know it's not some agent of the devil trying to steer them off the path of righteousness? Technically, people who followed jesus would be blaspheming, since they were accepting a potentially false god. Miracles can be produced by lucifer to persuade... so to stray from the path that was given to them would be bad, except it just so happens that they got lucky and strayed onto gods new path. In which case, all the loyal followers who did the right thing pre-amendment now get the shaft and weren't properly informed. I suppose all messias would be just as sacrilegious from the pious populations perspective. In light of this, is it possible that more than one faith can achieve eternity in paradise, and if so, can all of them be at least partially right, and so long as the individual stays true to their beliefs and does good unto others, they get protected by god when they finally kick the bucket? It is said that god works in mysterious ways. Making people have huge dogmatic conflicts would be an extremely efficient way of testing everybodies faith in themselves and their cause.
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Just as a note, heterosexual acts are sin as well.
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Just as a note, heterosexual acts are sin as well.