Being Angry: 101

[Esquilax]

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.

You can dress up the message in all the shiny happy language you want, it doesn't change what it is. What it does do, is expose the fundamental dishonesty in your position: you can't deny that you teach children about the hell- the threat - that awaits them if they don't accept this stuff as fact, so what do you do, you try and twist it: "Well yeah, but there's a heaven too."

So what? Who cares if there's also a carrot? You're beating your kids with a stick.