(November 15, 2017 at 10:05 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(November 15, 2017 at 12:17 pm)alpha male Wrote: You don't understand the rules.
Salvation - yes, can be taken on the death bed.
Rewards - nope, too late on the death bed. Person can still be saved as "one escaping through the flames," as Paul puts it. See 1 Cor 3.
Point is that, even if one believes in OSAS, there are still eternal rewards to motivate good behavior in this life.
So you're all good with genocide. What a horrible position.
A genocidal dictator can save his 'soul' on his death bed, but an extremely ethical, moral atheist gets eternal punishment for a thought crime.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
