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Why do I need to be saved?

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Why do I need to be saved?
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RE: Why do I need to be saved?
August 2, 2023 at 8:32 pm
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Because my army of Hamsters surrounds you.

So you shouldn't be asking why you should be saved but will you be saved
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RE: Why do I need to be saved?
August 2, 2023 at 9:39 pm
Are they like tunnel rats?
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RE: Why do I need to be saved?
August 2, 2023 at 9:48 pm
(August 2, 2023 at 9:39 pm)no one Wrote: Are they like tunnel rats?

No.

Crunchier.
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RE: Why do I need to be saved?
August 2, 2023 at 11:20 pm
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RE: Why do I need to be saved?
August 3, 2023 at 9:09 am
(August 2, 2023 at 1:14 pm)Aegon Wrote: To be fair, if you legitimately believed that anyone who didn't worship Jesus would burn in Hell for all eternity, you'd want to convert as many people as you could. It would be the compassionate thing to do.

You would be objectively incorrect about the fundamentals of reality, but still, I understand their POV from an emotional perspective.

Well, the idea of Hell as a burning place isn't supported by some Christian sects. They instead think of it as a place absent of god's presence.

I don't know. If I had such convoluted ideas about free agency versus god knowing everything and willing everything that happens to happen, I think I might be more frightened of defying this entity's plans for this person. Who knows? On any given day, I could believe they have the ability to choose and I'd be scared for them choosing pain and suffering. But then on another day realizing that god is the one with the will and the plan and me being scared and frantic to alter fates is not only a sin but also arrogant and prideful and defying god, which are also all sins as well.

Who knows what all crazy little things I might be compelled to do and not do if I believed such silly billies nonsense.

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RE: Why do I need to be saved?
August 3, 2023 at 11:05 am (This post was last modified: August 3, 2023 at 11:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-and...to those devout christians..the idea of being "absent gods presence" is roughly akin to hell. It's not a different idea, it's the euphemistic language of apologetics and recruiting.
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