RE: Why are believers still afraid of death?
February 13, 2018 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 4:32 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(February 13, 2018 at 8:53 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I don't know of any scripture, that says that there is going to be a theological test, that you must pass in order to be saved.
How do you call this test then:
Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. - John 15:6
Seems he will punish those that believe in other god or just don't believe in him - is that not a theological test?
(February 13, 2018 at 8:53 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Further, I don't think that their is a scripture that says that you have to be a part of this particular church to be saved. If you think it does, then show why you think that.
The Bible does seem to indicate that not everyone who believes in Jesus is doing the right thing/ be saved, like:
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. James 2:19
And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God. Mark 3:11
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying ... I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. Mark 1:23-24
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
