The dogma is confusing you rhythm. Yes it's true that given the message, you could never build the bridge. It's only God coming to you that saves you. As I explained, your nature marks you separate from perfection. So it's not any fault that you can correct, that would enable you to be completely fulfilled. That's a fact of life. Christian dogma reflects life, and to rail against that is blindness. Hitchens was ignorant of the subject which is why he could make such a ludicrous statement.
Outside the dogma, the same laws of nature apply. It's not by your own efforts that you're going to overcome your physical limitations. By incredible coincidence you could happen across the solution. It would still be vicarious. No scapegoat needed.
It depends on how wide you cast your net too. JWs for example, get to heaven by their own works, and call themselves Christians.
Outside the dogma, the same laws of nature apply. It's not by your own efforts that you're going to overcome your physical limitations. By incredible coincidence you could happen across the solution. It would still be vicarious. No scapegoat needed.
It depends on how wide you cast your net too. JWs for example, get to heaven by their own works, and call themselves Christians.