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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If God would send you to hell forever because you didn’t worship him, because you were raised in a life where the Christian God was not the default religion,

  God punishes sin. Everyone knows the difference between right and wrong, yet they deliberately do wrong. The punishment for sin is death and it separates us from God. It’s got nothing to do with where you’re from.

  he is an evil god and not worthy of being worshiped.

  By what standard? Since we’re both Christians, can you find a reference that supports your argument from our agreed-upon infallible scripture?

  I can argue my position because of what is written in Romans 9:14-29

  What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.”

  The majority is not Christian and never has been Christian. Christianity has always been a very small portion of the population.

  Even right now, world over, only about 20% of the world is Christian.

  By the way evangelicals teach you, that means that four out of five people alive on this planet are going to hell by default. That is six billion souls that god is condemning to hell for not following the preachings of one specific book, the way you’re saying it.

  I guess Jesus is an Evangelical, then.

  Matthew 7:13-14

  “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

  That’s why I said you cannot rely on just the book. You have to actually put the work in

  That’s a scary thought - how could we know that we are working hard enough? How could we have assurance that we’ll be saved?

  Don’t try to save the people that already have a religion. Try to save the people that are in need of salvation because they are erring in their life. They are sinning in their ways. They are doing wrong to themselves and to other people.

  We all are erring in life. We all need salvation. Only Jesus can grant that.

  Love not fear.

  Proverbs 9:10

  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

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