“which, being translated, means that because he didn’t “receive Jesus Christ as his personal lord and savior” than slammed the pearly gates in his face, is that right?
ugh, no wonder fundamentalists are all miserable.”
Spoken from Oprah’s Winfrey’s world, were choices have no consequences, anyone with actual convictions is a pariah and everything turns out just okie-dokie in the end.
Come one, you're a grown up aren't you? Time to put away childish things.
Did God really create hell for the ignorant?
““which, being translated, means that because he didn’t “receive Jesus Christ as his personal lord and savior” than slammed the pearly gates in his face, is that right?
ugh, no wonder fundamentalists are all miserable.”
Spoken from Oprah’s Winfrey’s world, were choices have no consequences, anyone with actual convictions is a pariah and everything turns out just okie-dokie in the end.”
I’m a fundamentalist and I’m not miserable. I’ve had joy in my heart and peace beyond understanding for the past 11 years since becoming born again. Without Christ, I think I’d be going crazy looking at the seemingly hopeless state of the world.
I think there’s a fundamental (no pun intended) misunderstanding of Bible-believing Christians. We don’t preach the exclusivity of having a saving knowledge of Jesus because we want to claim we are better or superior to the rest of humanity. We preach it cause that’s what’s taught in the Bible (John 14:6 being the most explicit supporting verse). We believe the Bible to be God’s inspired Word and we take what it says seriously.
I feel joyful and grateful every day for having come to a saving knowledge of Christ and being saved from eternal separation from God. I don’t deserve it (no one does), but I obtained it through Jesus’ blood shed at Calvary. The reason we preach this is to save lost souls from going to Hell, cause that’s what the Bible teaches is anyone’s fate that does not accept Christ. Heck, if it were up to me, I’d say everyone gets to go to Heaven. But unfortunately, that’s not what God’s Word teaches, so we’d be doing people no favors to pretend otherwise.