I’ve never heard a good argument for why a Christian should spread the gospel to those who have never heard of Jesus if said Christian doesn’t believe that everyone, regardless of knowledge of the gospel, will go to hell unless they deliberately and consciously accept Jesus as their savior. Are they not introducing them to the possibility of hell by proselytizing?
If the argument is that it is a heavenly commandment to spread the gospel, then isn’t it a selfless act of love to reject that commandment and take on that blame so as to spare your neighbor eternal damnation? Or do these people not truly believe that everyone is capable of being saved, even themselves?
So, what I hear you saying is that if we eliminate all evidence of the existence of Christianity, destroy all churches and kill everyone who knows about it, we can save all future humans from hell?
Sounds like its time to make an omelet…
This is what I was taught in school. If someone hasn’t been informed of christ and the church then they won’t be sent to hell since they never had a chance to accept god
As far as I know (someone may prove me wrong though) this is not in Bible - this is people trying to convince themselves god is fair and good.
Yes. Because the biblical literalist view (and that of the ‘cult’ my parents raised me in) is indeed the argument above. That is, that every nonbeliever goes to hell because humans are innately sinful, even if you’ve never heard of Jesus. To those who only accept the bible as absolute authority, and according to scripture, it’s not rejection of ‘salvation’ that sends you to hell - it’s existing in the first place, and not having that salvation. Because “no man is without sin” and “the punishment for sin is death.” Whether you know about Jesus has no bearing on it, except according to those who deny parts of the scripture to make it more palatable.
This is part of why I left Christianity. It is inherantly terrible, shocking, cruel, unjustified, and condemning. And it openly acknowledges that.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I am amazed at how little difference there actually is between this Jesus guy, and an abusive ex showing up talking shit through the door hoping his empty ass words will get you to unlock the door. Yeah, no.
“But he’s really a great guy once you get to know him! Sure, he hurts us sometimes, but only because he loves us so much. It’s really our own fault for not being good enough.”
Dang I was hoping dank christian memes finally made it to lemmy
The Messiah looks so white.
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