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Old 31-10-2011, 02:22 PM
mattie
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You Are NOT, NOT, NOT Going To Hell

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Originally Posted by Charlies Angel
...The people who did this to you are no Christians. Christianity preaches love, acceptance and forgiveness. Does that sound like a wrathful God to you?

Some factions of Christianity use fear heavily.
My parents were Southern Baptist. Their Southern Baptist church (a main one in our city) heavily used the fear of roasting in hellfire & brimstone. Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination at 16.3M. Baptists in general make up 100M of 670M Protestants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...r_of_membe rs
Interesting chart in wikipedia article showing the development of Christian sects.

The view of real Christianity you describe reminds me of former Episcopalian Bishop John Shelby Spong’s work about God & Jesus’ genuine message. Spong has written about this & tried to get church leaders to return to this message of love.

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Originally Posted by Charlies Angel
You are NOT going to Hell!

Can't be said enough.
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