07-24-2006, 09:11 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-paulose+Jul 24 2006, 03:08 PM-->QUOTE(paulose @ Jul 24 2006, 03:08 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->That is absolutely wrong. If you sin you will have punishment for that. That is the Christian belief. That is the basis of Christianity. That is why there is a judgement day. On that day God punish all people who do some mistakes and crimes. And heaven is the reward for good deeds and hell is the reward for bad deeds.
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This is total news to me: that the judgement day is reserved for those who commit sins, irrespective of whether or not they accept christ. Your version/spin on christianity is indeed very unique, certainly not the one practiced by the vast majority of christians around the world. In the new testament, the judgement day is reserved for those who commit sins and do not accept christ as their saviour. To escape the 'hell' sentence on judgement day, one needs to accept christ as his saviour, and repent the sins. No repenter, who has NOT accepted christ as his personal savior, can be reprieved, and must face 'hell,' even if he has done good deeds in order to cancel his bad deeds.
As for the children: "As to children that have personally done neither good nor evil, <i>the baptized must be distinguished from the unbaptized</i>. The former appear in the judgment, not to be judged, but only to hold the glory of Christ (Supplement 80:5), <b>while the latter, ranked with the wicked</b>, although not judged, will be enabled to realize the justice of their eternal loss." (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08552a.htm).
No doubt, christianity has tried to reinvent itself through time, borrowing heavily from vedanta and other eastern belief systems, in order to make itself more acceptable and palatable to people, particularly those who question its autocratic and oppressive theology and hypocricy. Perhaps your more liberal views are part of that reinvented theology, but definitely not the one I, who have been exposed to christian ideologies from very early age, would associate with christianity.
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This is total news to me: that the judgement day is reserved for those who commit sins, irrespective of whether or not they accept christ. Your version/spin on christianity is indeed very unique, certainly not the one practiced by the vast majority of christians around the world. In the new testament, the judgement day is reserved for those who commit sins and do not accept christ as their saviour. To escape the 'hell' sentence on judgement day, one needs to accept christ as his saviour, and repent the sins. No repenter, who has NOT accepted christ as his personal savior, can be reprieved, and must face 'hell,' even if he has done good deeds in order to cancel his bad deeds.
As for the children: "As to children that have personally done neither good nor evil, <i>the baptized must be distinguished from the unbaptized</i>. The former appear in the judgment, not to be judged, but only to hold the glory of Christ (Supplement 80:5), <b>while the latter, ranked with the wicked</b>, although not judged, will be enabled to realize the justice of their eternal loss." (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08552a.htm).
No doubt, christianity has tried to reinvent itself through time, borrowing heavily from vedanta and other eastern belief systems, in order to make itself more acceptable and palatable to people, particularly those who question its autocratic and oppressive theology and hypocricy. Perhaps your more liberal views are part of that reinvented theology, but definitely not the one I, who have been exposed to christian ideologies from very early age, would associate with christianity.