(March 1, 2015 at 1:37 am)Delysid Wrote: I
2. This same guy told me that one CAN be good without believing in god, which is contradictory to what he said just minutes before this (the first example above), but that being a good person in and of itself is not enough to get into heaven. You HAVE TO accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior to be accepted into the kingdom of heaven.
I had a pastor in Iowa tell me the same thing! The disconnect in his mind must have been very strong because I don't think that he would have ever knowingly hurt anyone and yet, he taught these awful beliefs that he thought were beautiful.
According to him, it didn't matter is someone was good in life, if they didn't have faith in Jesus, they were doomed to hell.