(February 6, 2020 at 1:59 am)ColdComfort Wrote: You could ask them. I got to the point where the guy said 'you will go to hell'. To repeat myself a bit: 1) how does he know? and 2) he presumes to put himself in the place of God.
I'm not fond of guys with megaphones preaching their version of Christianity. A few months ago there were two of them at the main intersection of the city I live in. One of them didn't take kindly when I refused his pamphlet. A sneer towards another lost soul. So I told them I was Catholic and they were going to hell unless they started receiving the sacraments. I had no right to say so but you know... bad day... that kind of thing.
I think Islam is a false religion. It's kind of a Christian heresy which is why Dante put Mohammed in hell suffering being split from head to toe, then healed, then split again. Forever. Protestants are schismatics and often heretics. It's a simple act of charity to tell someone the truth. Jesus, and the Church He founded, gives us very serious warning of hell.
God is Love but Love is not God.
That's the thing: mostly any Muslim will tell you likewise that you are going to hell, as will hindu and members of other religions that believe in their version of hell. To them it is also a "fact" that you are going to hell as it is a "fact" to you that they are going into your religion's hell.
So until you guys settle among yourself who is right and also find evidence for hell's existence, you don't get to call "going to hell" a fact but just your uninformed opinion.
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"
