Please describe your god's loyalty reward scheme.

[Catholic_Lady]

Yeah, Christianity is very diverse in certain details. But at the end of the day, the fundamental principles of Christianity are mostly still the same throughout most denominations worldwide (unless we're talking about a fringe group like the Westboros, etc).

So long as Christians live out the corporal works of mercy and try to follow the teachings of Christ, the smaller details like whether the OT is allegory vs historical fact, who goes to Heaven, etc, doesn't bother me.

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I do appreciate your open mind and tolerant worldview of others, very much.  Yet, you say this (my bold) after literally disagreeing with nearly everything AM said about his beliefs.  You differ on who may get into heaven, what heaven is, how people attain states of grace and/or reach heaven.  You essentially differ on what is important both in this life and in the next.  Yet you still maintain that "the fundamental principles of Christianity are mostly still the same throughout most denominations worldwide". 

I'm not angry or anything, just utterly puzzled how you can disagree on such extremely important, and not even nitpicky points of faith.  But broad, and again, important points, and yet still say you are fundamentally the same. 

To me, it seems very clear that your religion is as different from his as it is from Shinto or Wicca.  You have nothing in common except you both claim your faith dates back to a man with the same name.  Everything else seems pretty different.  Just sharing this from my outsider POV.

Yeah, me and AM have different beliefs regarding how someone gets to Heaven or Hell.

But see, I don't see this as an important, fundamental thing because it is a judgement that is God's to make. So while we can have certain opinions on how it'll go down, we both agree that this is God's call and not ours. It doesn't change the way he and I practice our faith or our principles.

Same with the opinion of what Heaven and Hell will be like - whether they are physical places or a state of being. What exactly it'll be like isn't a fundamental part of Christianity, only that we believe they exist and that one is good and the other is bad.

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Well... yes, as a matter of fact. Why?

Well ...We have something in common then, we both ate soil and we are still both here. That proves that despite our differing beliefs we can both brush our teeth and move on.

Can't say I disagree with that. Same with taking a dump and then wiping our butt I suppose. How does this have anything to do with anything?