"Piorokrat" <piorokrat@autograf.pl> wrote in message news:<bftbl4$6ka$1@news.onet.pl>...
> I've been an adulterer, and had a brush with the occult, but nevertheless I
> do not fear those verses because they refer to the sinner who carries on
> impenitent. If that were not the case, it would render the Gospel of none
> effect, and the sense of the Bible's message would be lost.
You're saying that it only takes confessing one's sins and trusting in
Jesus to get eternal life?
Can a person who trusts in Jesus be sentenced to hell regardless?
> We are told by Christ to forgive even up to 'seventy times seven' the sins
> of people who repeatedly do the same bad thing to us, but come up and
> apologise.
>
> God similarly, forgives the same sins, even very grievous ones, over and
> over again, for those who ask for forgiveness. Salvation is not dependent on
> being a good person, salvation is dependent on a deep down understanding
> that actually we're not ood enough for salvation, it's a pure gift of God.
> That's the only 'trick' to it, but that's what causes men and women to go
> into eternal punishment; rejection of the Gospel.
What happens to people who never knew about the Gospel?
What about Hindu swamis, like Adano and Yogananda, who were dead for a
while and returned?
One person I know who had an NDE, says that the experience was a lot
like ones described in Tibetan Book of the Dead.
I also keep hearing stories of people feeling their spirit hover over
their body. If a spirit can hover over a body, then the spirit becomes
disincarnate at death, and the fires of hell cannot hurt it, wouldn't
you say?
> We are not obligated to forgive the trespasses of those who do not ask it,
> and God also is not obligated to do so either, but Christians are obliged to
> forgive those who say that they are sorry and there is at least the
> possibility they could be sincere.
What about men who beat their wives and then say they're sorry and
once forgiven go back to doing the same thing? Is forgiving them the
best thing the women can do, or should they take a more proactive
approach?
> If not, then how are we expecting God to do the same to us?
I understand the principle. Whatever it is I'm talking to that calls
itself God gets very angry with me when I'm not being charitable. He
wants me to extend to people an understanding that is complete. It's a
useful practice.
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