(July 25, 2013 at 10:13 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(July 25, 2013 at 9:54 pm)Godschild Wrote: If they are taught that they are not being taught Christianity.
You don't see what you wrote there as conflicting with what you write two minutes later:
No, why should you, there is no conflict.
GC Wrote:God's judgement is coming on this world again, this will be the final judgement.
Quote:I doubt that you are really being honest with the first one. Many branches of Christianity (and almost all branches of Baptists) teach that hell awaits those who don't accept Jesus. Maybe you are nitpicking over the language used, but obviously if you don't believe in the bible you don't believe in Jesus. It's silly to have to state it but even sillier to claim that Christianity isn't teaching it.
Accepting Jesus as one's savior has nothing to do with scriptures, many found Christ long before the Bible was canonized, even before the NT was written. Teaching one to believe that hell awaits them if they do not believe the Bible, is no different than teaching one they will go to heaven if they believe in the Bible. Christ is the key to salvation and that key also opens the scriptures to us for understanding, salvation is given by grace and not the works of man, salvation does not depend on one ever reading scripture. When one believes in Christ then one will believe the scriptures. Yes Christian parents teach their children to believe scriptures, but they do not teach they have to believe to stay out of hell, they have to believe to find Christ.
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.
