CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS PLEASE READ THIS....
I don't really like term Christian because lots of people have been giving it a bad name. There are some "Christian's" that kill homosexuals. Kill Blacks. And kill other people because of Religeous Difference. I prefer people calling me a BELIEVER IN CHRIST. But that it actually a christian just different wording so I will use the name Christian for this Paragraph. I also don't like the word church either...I use Fellowship instead. But that doesn't matter right now, keep reading.
Just lay down some guidline here. Christianity is NOT a religion. Religion is book of rules that you have to follow to be in a group. Here's an example. Your have to pray 8 times a day. You have to remove your shirt before you enter a holy place...like a church. Your must go to church certain days of the week. You have to repent if you ever done any sins or you'll go to hell. If you don't follow rules like this you are looked down upon or kicked out of the group. Christianity still has rules, we don't have to nesseccarily have to follow them, a good christian will try to become a better christian be doing so but it isn't mandatory.
Christianity is a faith. Faith that someday our lord and saviour will come back to earth and save us and the revelations will begin.
Look if your a christian, you know that anything that it can't be proven that god is real or if he isn't. It doesn't matter. Us Christians don't need to SEE or HEAR Jesus Christ to believe he's real. We have Faith that God/Jesus Christ is real. None christian might not understand this Faith. I don't care. As Christians we shouldn't care about what other people think. (But we're still on here arn't we guys) Even though we shouldn't give a rat's ass about what someone else believes, but we are still here to populate heaven. We still want to try to tell people about our awesome faith.
ShredderBeam to answer your question...Why didn't God find someone else to die on the cross? Jesus died on the cross. Jesus is God. Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God are one. It's kind of hard to explain so ask your local christian preacher or pastor. Anyway, God couldn't let a human take all that punishment on a human. All the world's paint, suffering, illness, every nasty thing you can ever thing of was a burden for Jesus Christ to carry until he died.
And God has the right to do anything you wants dingbat. He's God!
And God isn't saying in christianity "follow me or burn in hell" hes just saying that if you don't believe. You cease existing. Hence what most athiests believe. You are born, you live, and you die and cease existing.
For all non-christians out there if there are and christian Alpha courses out there I would seriously recommend attending one of the those courses. It's pretty much just people basicly explaining what christianity is and what's it is about. There not hard on any people who don't believe at all and won't go to church or anything.
And to anyone who thinks hell is a burning pit where you burn and suffering for eternity, well, simply its not. Its just the absence of God. They just have to decribe it as a horrible place in the bible.
B - Basic
I -Instructions
B -Before
L-Leaving
E -Earth
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You can neglect everything and anything I say here. It's your choice. We are only on the Earth or a short number of years before we pass on for the next generations. What you do over the next 100 years or for however longer you will be on this earth will determine what you'll be doing for the next eternity.
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Thanks for reading this if you have any questions or comments or oyu wanna agree of disagree with something or you wanna argue with me or you send hate mail to me please pm me. I'd love to talk.
Heaven's going to be a huge party! And I wanna see you there!!