(May 7, 2012 at 6:14 pm)Godschild Wrote:Wc Wrote:What's to stop a person from repenting after they died?
The fact that is too late to do so, it is in this life that we have to make the decision to repent, after death there is the physical evidence you want, and salvation can only come through faith in Christ. Sorry but that is the plan of an unchanging God.
This is of course the common belief of most Christians -- that a human being must accept a god he cannot see, hear or touch, and repent, not for the sins of the flesh, but rather for not accepting a god-man who has not been proven to ever have even existed. Their god will forgive you for torturing small children, but he won't forgive you for not accepting that he exists. As a matter of fact, once you've been saved you don't have to technically ever ask forgiveness again. You may not get crowns of gold to lay at Jesus' feet and you may not be told, "Well done thou good and faithful servant" by the man himself, but hey, you'll still go to Heaven.
But why won't their god let everyone into Heaven when they die?? "Sorry but that's just the plan of an unchanging god" just doesn't cut it.
It makes absolutely no sense. Why would an all-powerful creator god who takes the time to actually live inside people's hearts, tell millions of 2nd century chinamen to "go to hell ... too late for you!" ??? Why??? "Hey all you native americans ... too fucking late." "Hey all you jews executed in the holocaust ... too late, fuck you." Why? "Hey atheists, you wanted proof, now you got it ... too late, burn asshole!"
What is so far up gods ass that he couldn't simply forgive them when they finally witness all his supposed awesome power??? Who does that?!?!? Who tortures BILLIONS of souls for the rest of time just to prove a point?!??! Better yet, how do you possibly love such a horribly evil being??????
The whole concept is just so god damn ridiculous. It VERY CLEARLY isn't real. It was cooked up by humans over thousands of years. It's been written and re-written and re-hashed, smashed and stashed only to be exhumed and brought back like a left over pizza that's been reheated and assured to be tasty, but only leaves you wishing you'd ponied up for the take-out. Millennia after millennia, humans 'copy & paste' each other's fairy tales so often that they're all nearly identical ... and STILL we have billions swearing up & down that their brand of stupidity is "the only way."
There is far more likelihood that the North American Bigfoot exists than your god. I take that back. There is more likelihood that the North American Bigfoot and the Lochness monster are fornicating and producing Santas Elves drag racing on the mother fucking Sunset Strip - than there is that your god exists. (sarcasm - recognize it!) The BULL SHIT that I have read from our resident brothers-in-christ over the last few days has been a staggering, mind-bending, blood-boiling amount of absolute stupidity. I just needed to let this hostility go right now before I said something I couldn't take back to some religious fucktard here in the real world.
I know this much. Every friend I've ever had has more decency and love in his heart than your god does. Not a single one of them would send you to hell for not knowing that they exist ... let alone for all eternity.