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Something just seems utterly weird about the whole thing. Seems like some kind of warped extortion, doesn't it? God has a cauldron of eternal fire some place awaiting all those who do not worship and patronize him or accept his "gift" so it is best to have him save you from what he can do to you. If it is not the fear of that (as I know not all Christians believe in the eternal barbecue), then it is some other fear God has control over, so aren't saved folks feeling the need to be saved BY God FROM said God?
Please forgive me if I cannot wrap my mind around this one, but strip away all the religio-speak, isn't this what is going on?
Being saved from God? No, being saved from sin that in turn incurs death. To turn from wrong doing is to turn towards God. There is no saving for those that turn away from God.
As I brought out in another thread. There's a hidden cliff. There's a sign at the cliff that says, "Danger Cliff! Don't jump in, you will die." A person ignores the sign, jumps in anyway and dies. Who's to blame? Gravity? The sign? The person that put up the sign? Or the person that decided to jump off the cliff? If a person doesn't fall because they read the sign and avoids the cliff, who is the savior? Isn't it the sign maker?
Folks have to realize there is a choice in all of this. Oh but there is no eternal fire BTW.
Something just seems utterly weird about the whole thing. Seems like some kind of warped extortion, doesn't it? God has a cauldron of eternal fire some place awaiting all those who do not worship and patronize him or accept his "gift" so it is best to have him save you from what he can do to you. If it is not the fear of that (as I know not all Christians believe in the eternal barbecue), then it is some other fear God has control over, so aren't saved folks feeling the need to be saved BY God FROM said God?
Please forgive me if I cannot wrap my mind around this one, but strip away all the religio-speak, isn't this what is going on?
God is on your side. It is the devil you need saved from.
Being saved from God? No, being saved from sin that in turn incurs death. To turn from wrong doing is to turn towards God. There is no saving for those that turn away from God.
As I brought out in another thread. There's a hidden cliff. There's a sign at the cliff that says, "Danger Cliff! Don't jump in, you will die." A person ignores the sign, jumps in anyway and dies. Who's to blame? Gravity? The sign? The person that put up the sign? Or the person that decided to jump off the cliff? If a person doesn't fall because they read the sign and avoids the cliff, who is the savior? Isn't it the sign maker?
Folks have to realize there is a choice in all of this. Oh but there is no eternal fire BTW.
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