No atonement, no heaven.
And if you haven't received Gods free gift, the atonement for your sins, where do you think your soul is going after you die?
2007-09-14 05:10:06 · 14 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I accepted the free gift and Salvation.
2007-09-14 08:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's bull. That is not the truth. Why did Jesus Christ die on the Cross? Because it would be a good time? He died to forgive people's sins, ma'am. The price has already been paid by Him, since humanity could NEVER pay the price.
2007-09-14 13:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by xenypoo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"All this concept of atonement and sacrificial salvation is rooted and grounded in selfishness. Jesus taught that service to one's fellows is the highest concept of the brotherhood of spirit believers. Salvation should be taken for granted by those who believe in the fatherhood of God. The believer's chief concern should not be the selfish desire for personal salvation but rather the unselfish urge to love and, therefore, serve one's fellows even as Jesus loved and served mortal men.
Neither do genuine believers trouble themselves so much about the future punishment of sin. The real believer is only concerned about present separation from God. True, wise fathers may chasten their sons, but they do all this in love and for corrective purposes. They do not punish in anger, neither do they chastise in retribution.
Even if God were the stern and legal monarch of a universe in which justice ruled supreme, he certainly would not be satisfied with the childish scheme of substituting an innocent sufferer for a guilty offender.
The great thing about the death of Jesus, as it is related to the enrichment of human experience and the enlargement of the way of salvation, is not the fact of his death but rather the superb manner and the matchless spirit in which he met death.
This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a plane of unreality; such a concept is purely philosophic. Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may be grasped by the creature's faith and thereby become incorporated into individual human experience: the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be "forgiven your debts, even as you forgive your debtors." "
http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper188.html
2007-09-14 12:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Join Christianity today! Get a free gift!
2007-09-14 12:15:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Old time religion
2007-09-14 12:16:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I know that. I also won't go to hell, Walhalla, the Pink Unicorn's Back, Neverland, etc.
2007-09-14 12:25:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I was kinda hoping for reincarnation...
You know, coming back as Bill Gates or something...
:p
2007-09-14 12:17:22 · answer #7 · answered by ~*Live, Love and Blessed Be*~ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No ma'am that is not true at all.
Most souls cross over and no idiotic religion has anything to do with it.
2007-09-14 12:16:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
We have to ask Jesus in our hearts and forgivness of our sins.
2007-09-14 12:20:00 · answer #9 · answered by dcrc93 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thank God I'm not the judge.
2007-09-14 12:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋