(December 21, 2011 at 11:59 am)Freedom Wrote: According to modern-day Pauline Christianity, a person is saved only if s/he accepts Jesus Christ as personal saviour. I asked the following questions in a Christian chat-room:
1) If an evil person sincerely asks for forgiveness and accepts Christ on their dying day, can they go to heaven? The answer was Yes.
2) In theory, if Hitler sincerely asked for forgiveness and accepted Christ on his dying day, he could have gone to heaven? The answer was Yes.
3) What about Hitler's victims, who were mostly Jews?
The majority's answer was: If they didn't accept Christ, they go to hell.
So, the murderer can go to heaven by accepting Jesus Christ, yet his victims go to hell for having a different opinion.
Is there any way to get Christians to see the total lack of reason and compassion in this line of thinking?
It's not an opinion, it is belief through faith. Hitler again, this is getting boring, Hitler would have never asked for forgiveness any man that was coward enough to take his life and not face the consequences of his actions is not going to humble himself before God to ask for forgiveness.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
