(October 28, 2011 at 5:13 pm)salty Wrote: Christianity was the only place where I was told that God loved me, cherished me, gave up his life for me, made a path for me, will guide me, will change me, will never leave me and even if I commit inexcuseable evil he'll forgive me, and I don't deserve any of this, which is why it's so amazing, because I know I don't deserve it. You can call someone's thoughts delusional, but until you've set foot in their shoes, until you understand what they have been saved from your point will never be made. You simply cannot convince someone who has experienced the transforming power of Christ to stop living for him, but you can easily derail someone religious.
This is nice, up to a point, and I can certainly understand those kinds of feelings. Are you a Universalist or a believer that the souls of those who aren't going to heaven are extinguished? Because if you're not, it's very likely you believe that anyone who doesn't agree with you on theological matters is destined for and deserves eternal, writhing torment in unimaginable pain. And that's not so nice.
