(October 1, 2009 at 7:45 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: So, to be clear: you believe that someone who is a relatively good person, may live his life by so-called "Christian values" but does not believe, is going to hell?
A relatively good person? By what moral criteria? That was a card shrewdly dealt from the bottom of the deck. Hopefully your fingers merely slipped and that wasn't on purpose. As for my response to the question: Every single relatively good person goes to heaven, but that's because "relatively good" is relative to a right relationship with God through Christ Jesus, apart from whom there is no good. The sinfulness of man, as Malcolm Muggeridge pointed out, "is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact." You disagree, of course, because you opt for a vastly different moral theory. However, you were not asking me about your views.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)