All beliefs are choices. They are exercises in free will. Any disbelief that something which you percieve in your conscious/mind/soul (physical reality, truth, emotion, morality, value, right/wrong, unicorns, everything) is a negation of the validity of your own consciousness. A negation of consciousness is a negation of existence. A negation of existence is a negation of God.
If you can't believe in Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in human form you negate your own consciousness and hence your own existence hence you negate God.
since it is impossible to believe in God correctly because God is incomprehensible(this also makes God extremely hard not to believe in in my opinion, sorry atheists I still think you believe in some iteration of God even though you don't call your belief "God") God manifested and sacrificed Gods-self in the form of Jesus so that humanity may believe in life-everlasting (although any interpretation of what existence beyond this life is like is speculation, my theory is a state of perfect love coupled with the infinity of consciousness)
God isn't casting the wicked and the disbelievers into darkness away from God, we're doing it to ourselves. Those of us who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ refuse to believe in our own eternal existence and therefore negate God and cast ourselves away. The truly wicked among us refuse redemption and salvation refuse to submit to God's ultimate authority and again cast themselves away from God to hell.
Allah is just form of belief in God. That belief is not distinguishable from the Christian God or from a belief in science or ultimately atheism (if that atheist believes in a "reality".) All those beliefs are necessarily woefully incomplete. God exists apart from our ideas about what God is or isn't.
The distinction is Jesus Christ. The belief in Jesus Christ is a belief in the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. It is a belief in reality, in truth and love, in righteousness. It is a belief in God.
Anyone can turn to Jesus Christ; in this life or after death. That is the epitome of free will.
All it takes is a little faith.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand, you have failed."- St. Agustine
So I guess to answer the question: I believe God sacrificed Gods-self in the form of Jesus Christ so that we (all people, not just Christians) may have eternal life and forgiveness of sins...
If you can't believe in Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in human form you negate your own consciousness and hence your own existence hence you negate God.
since it is impossible to believe in God correctly because God is incomprehensible(this also makes God extremely hard not to believe in in my opinion, sorry atheists I still think you believe in some iteration of God even though you don't call your belief "God") God manifested and sacrificed Gods-self in the form of Jesus so that humanity may believe in life-everlasting (although any interpretation of what existence beyond this life is like is speculation, my theory is a state of perfect love coupled with the infinity of consciousness)
God isn't casting the wicked and the disbelievers into darkness away from God, we're doing it to ourselves. Those of us who refuse to believe in Jesus Christ refuse to believe in our own eternal existence and therefore negate God and cast ourselves away. The truly wicked among us refuse redemption and salvation refuse to submit to God's ultimate authority and again cast themselves away from God to hell.
Allah is just form of belief in God. That belief is not distinguishable from the Christian God or from a belief in science or ultimately atheism (if that atheist believes in a "reality".) All those beliefs are necessarily woefully incomplete. God exists apart from our ideas about what God is or isn't.
The distinction is Jesus Christ. The belief in Jesus Christ is a belief in the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting. It is a belief in reality, in truth and love, in righteousness. It is a belief in God.
Anyone can turn to Jesus Christ; in this life or after death. That is the epitome of free will.
All it takes is a little faith.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand, you have failed."- St. Agustine
So I guess to answer the question: I believe God sacrificed Gods-self in the form of Jesus Christ so that we (all people, not just Christians) may have eternal life and forgiveness of sins...
