Tollerance for others beliefs is certainly not an important point in Christian doctrine. I never understood why Christians believe that only those that believe in the divinity in Jesus can be saved from hell. I picture a nazi concentration camp in wich Jews have just underwent torture and death from an ss guard. The Jews were for the most part good people, and the SS guard was a sadistic murderer. On his death bed the SSman converts to the Christian fait. According to stian doctrine, the SS man would go to heaven, while the Jews that he tortured and murdered would go to hell because they did not believe in the divinity of Jesus. Makes no sense to me.
larry wrote:
You are assuming, that those that are not following God knowingly chose not to. People have been deluded to follow many different make believe gods created out of their own imagination because they did not see the true God. These people believed that they were worshipping the true God. They were led astray by Lucifer. thinking inanimate and self created objects were their god.
In their ignorance and their blocked exposure to the true god, they invented god. Just as most do today. Their problem is that they chose the wrong god. One of their imagination. God knows that, and although they know OF God, they did not know God. Only those given special knowledge started to know God. Those that have been mislead, will have the same chance that those who were on the earth when Jesus came to explain the truth. You are purposely defending an untenable position. Putting in God's words things He has not said, but using your interpretation of them to suit your fancy.
You are not reading the bible with the eyes of love, but with the eyes of hate. Turn your thinking around , repent, and look at it from a sensible viewpoint. As an example, when a child runs out into the street in front of a car, He knows full well that a car is dangerous because his parents have told him so, but he is ignorant of the result of his careless actions. His parents have to impress on him the imminent danger in those actions, without letting him get injured. It is difficult to do. Unless he becomes more knowledgeable of the results, he will find it hard to believe that just running in the street could be fatal. It takes more exposure to events sometimes to believe something he has not experienced. So too are those that know of God, but have never found Him. They are not ignorant of God, just not experienced.
This is not an excuse, it is just lack of information that is necessary. Many atheists refuse to acknowledge God because they have never experienced God in their life. They do not want to, they want to ignore God. But as soon as they feel the loving power of God, they change their tune. Criminals often change their direction when they experience God in their circumstances. You cannot deny that God will search for those that are afflicted with lack of knowledge. Knowing something exists is not knowing about it.
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