Quote (BigDuke6 @ Jun 20 2010 09:24pm)
I guess I will have to be placed into the stupid column. I choose to live by faith. I had rather attempt to live my life for Christ and be wrong than to not have believed and trusted upon Him and be wrong.
You can live how you like. I should correct my words and say it is my opinion that it is stupid to live so blindly. To live this way only to say, "Well if I'm wrong at least I don't go to hell" is not a Christian view.(Again my opinion) This is to live in a mild case of fear.
I once asked my dad this question...(he is devote Christian)
If you were to go to Heaven in the end and me and mom were to be sent off to hell... Would you leave us behind without batting an eye?
Without hesitating he said yes. Blind Christian faith states you love your "chance of a faith" more than the people who actually love you.
I could not leave anyone I truly love behind. If the punishment is eternal suffering. So be it, I would feel better suffering knowing I am suffering for the ones I love than leaving them alone.
I have a hope that everyone will go to Heaven(if it exists) and it will be a forgive and forget. Nothing will be perfect without my best friend or family there. Nothing can be perfect for my friends or family if their friends and family are not there.
Even if I hate my family's friends with a passion. They would be sad for them not to be there(assuming we keep our individuality and mind). If EVERYONE is not there. It cannot be perfect and will only lead to sadness leading to sin. We must be wiped of our individuality for us to forget these souls living in torment while we live in mansions.
Forgive and forget. This is the only thing to make sense to me.
You tell your dying loved one that does not believe in Christ that he/she deserves death and you will happily move on while they suffer. Could you? It would be cowardice to think it and not say it.