Ask the Christian

[Zen Badger]

But by the rules of the book you live by, the majority of people would go to hell.

That is why we have a thing called grace, or God's character of favour. Grace is the idea that we all sin, we all fall short of the rules. It is not about rules it is realising we can all have a relationship with God that when we get closer to him our sin gets less. He empowers people to stop sinning becase we know his rules help us. As an example drinking might be fun for some people, but I know of a friend who was hit by a car becase he got so drunk, broke ribs and all. So for me I don't drink at all becase I know it can cause harm. So God's rule about drinking is to keep people from harmful things. God is not about rules, you must keep my rules or else I will destroy you, rather he is about showing us the rules are to benifit us, and help us. He actually does really care about peoples walfare, believe it or not.

So the closer you get to god the less you sin.

So when bishops and priests(who, presumably are closer to god than you or I ) rape little boys how does that work out?