(June 7, 2016 at 10:33 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(June 7, 2016 at 10:23 pm)Godschild Wrote: You're the one who claims God hasn't spoken to you in anyway, it's you who need to prove He hasn't. As for the dangers of denial the NT is full of verses that state the dangers. So if you were a Bible reader while in church then you know those verses well.
GC
I do, and I don't that they are authentic; they were written by various anonymous authors at the end of the 1st century on into the beginning of the 2nd century, who contradicted each other in the faith that they were trying to pass on. They went through several layers of redaction and modification before settling down sometime in the 3rd and 4th century into what, eventually, became the accepted New Testament. And, even then, the so-called doctrines and dogmas continued to evolve into the tens of thousands of different sects that we see today.
Wrong, wrong and more wrong. The writers were not even trying to write the NT, they were trying to advise the people in the new churches, the NT was later put together, all the writers of the letters that are now the NT were dead before the 2nd century so no letters in the NT can have come from the writers. Those letter are not contradictory, they all teach the same thing, faith in Christ the Son of God, born of a virgin, died for our sins and raised from the dead is the only way to heavenly life. There was no redaction and possibly only one addition and that is not in contradiction to any thing in the NT. The Catholic Church has distorted the NT along with the Jehovah Witness Church, to make it fit to their beliefs. Yes there are differences in interpretation of some of the NT and most of that has nothing to do with how to become and live as a Christian.
Jehanne Wrote:Question for yah, GC, "What happens to an infant child who dies without sacramental Baptism, that is, water baptism using the Trinitarian formula -- 'I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son....'?"
That infant goes to God to live eternally with Him. Baptism doesn't get you into heaven, the thief on the cross is proof of that, Jesus told him,"today you will be in paradise with me."
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.