What happened after you left? Do you still have ties with your family? Did people bother you to try and make you come back?

  • IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf
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    God doesnt condemn you to Hell its you you have a choice walk the narrow path or the wide, easy one all of us are sinners, due to Adam and Eve eating the apple.

    and I could argue the same for history Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung

    Pharoah had multiple chances to let the Israelites go, yet he didnt Cain chose to kill Abel Judas chose the silver coins The brast isnt a human, and he was created by God but pride corrupted him

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      A) you don’t have a choice. Christianity teaches that our lives are deterministic, God chose who will and won’t make it into heaven. If he decided to design you to be a sinner who won’t accept him then that’s your fate.

      B) Pharoah never had a chance. It wasn’t himself or the devil who made him reject God, the Bible itself that God hardened his heart and made him act the way he did. Same with Judas, he was chosen to fulfill prophesy. Sure, a different follower could have betrayed him, but it had to be someone because God decided that someone had to take the fall. He wasn’t even able to repent afterwards, even though he tried.

      C) Almost everyone ever born won’t make it to heaven according to Christianity. Many are called but few are chosen—as you mentioned narrow is the path according to scripture. It also states that “many” (interpreted majority of) Christians will stand before him in judgment and be rejected because they didn’t believe in him the right way. Performing miracles and healing the sick isn’t enough if you weren’t the right denomination with the right version of the Bible.

      D) the beast and antichrist are both human, one a politician and one a religious leader who team up to deceive the world

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        A. God made us rational beings, but our minds cannot comprehend omnipotence fully

        B. Judas couldve repented, but he just committed suicide

        C. Many are called, but few will respond. Many “christians” will claim to have followed Christ, but didnt. And the Bibles translations are based on literalness and how its said

        for example “Libera nos a malo, Domine” can be translated as “Save us from evil, Lord” and “Please save us from Evil, Lord”

        D. I thought by beast you meant Satan