@Chaos_HL21 said:
There is a difference between profess yourself as a Christian or any other religion that haves a belief in the afterlife and being one. Just professing it doesn't get you into heaven.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but here's what I'm understanding.
1) All humans sin.
2) Therefore, it is essentially impossible to be "saved" based on works alone.
3) Therefore, Jesus Christ was sent to earth to die for our sins. If you are a sinner, you're still saved as long as you trully accept Jesus Christ as yourt saviour.
Again...maybe I'm grossly misinterpretting things here. But that's the impression that I got. And if I'm in the ballpark with regards to this, then that doesn't really counter what Brokenrabbit was saying.
That is STILL placing beliefs/intentions over actual WORK. It is literally the case that someone who rapes and murders his entire life could TRULY profess himself as a Christian on his deathbed and be saved, while some atheist or Muslim or Jew could spend his entire life being dedicated to goodness and then still be damned because of some minor fuckups that don't acvtually hurt anyone. And yes...that's kind of fucked up. I'm of the opinion that yes, we ARE fucking defined by our WORKS. That's how it SHOULD be. You could be the nicest most kind and caring person in the world, but if you can't do your fucking job then you're probably going to get fired. Good intentions don't get burgers flipped or dishes washed, and good intentions also don't stop people from killing, raping, or stealing. It's sort of bullshit to allow a rule where people can **** up HORRIBLY throughout their entire lives and then get saved due to religion, where the guy who did the actual WORK gets fucked over on a technicality.
And that's not even a slam against Jesus. From what I've heard, he was a pretty fly dude aside from acting like the fucking Messiah. But if that God Complex resulted in him MOSTLY not being a jerk, then who am I to complain? As Bill Duke said in Menace 2 Society, you believe whatever you have to believe as long as it makes you a better person.
But this aspect of the RELIGION is pretty fucked up.
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