Please describe your god's loyalty reward scheme.

[Aroura]

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 ...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?

When I was a practicing Catholic, if memory serves, there was nothing more important or fundamental than learning about my personal relationship with God, the relationship of mankind with God, and trying to understand what God wants of us. That is literally the very basis, the most basic foundation, of Christian faith.

This is what you are disagreeing on. Your notions of both what god wants of people, and how you relate to god....thats way more fundamental to faith than details like if there is a heaven or hell. It's not just how or who gets into heaven.

Yeah, you agree on some parts of some of the details, but not on the very nature of God and man and how the two relate. Seriously, tell me what is more fundamental to your faith than that?

This is, again, just from my perspective. I think this is one of our agree to disagree moments, lol.