I was talking to my very Christian Aunt, and I told her that I follow Asatru. Now she knows me very well and really feels that I am a genuinely kind and loving person. I asked her, based on her beliefs, that even though I am not a Christian, would I go to heaven when I died, if it existed. She said no, I would go to hell for eternity. Me, a kind and loving person, would go to Hell and burn for eternity, all because I didn't accept Jesus as my saviour. That's outrageous to me, and shows how intolerant the Christian god is, at least in my Aunt's interpretation. Now my Aunt is not the "religious" Christian, she says she is a "spiritual" Christian. One who feels that have a one-on-one relationship with God, and disagrees a lot with the Church. She says the only things you must do to get to Heaven is accept you are a sinner, and accept Jesus. She is very tolerant however, it seems as if her god is not. Her loving god who shows her the way, the truth, and the light, and cares so much about her and guides her. This loving god sends another loving human to eternal Hellfire for not accepting him.
Klaufi Wodensson,
When any human being reasons, he automatically puts himself in, what is called An Epistemological Predicament. The reason for this is: all people are at a great disadvantage because all people actually know very little, so then HOW can you expect to dumb out an accurrate answers to problems that are profound, that actually mean the difference between everlasting death and everlasting life??
The only place you can receive information about life is from the ONE WHO is the SOURCE of life, who created all things in heaven and earth, Ps 36:9, Isa, 45:18, Rev 4:11.
As far as I have ever heard, NO other god except the God of the Bible has claimed to be the one who created everything. There is NOTHING that is worse to God than false religion, which is actually: Worship of nonexisting gods, Ps 115:1-8. The God of the Bible claims to be the one who created all things, therefore He is the one who has the right to make laws. He is making these laws for our own good, not just because He has the power, Deut 10:13,Ps 32:8,9, Isa 46:9,10, 48:17,18. God says that if you put your trust in Him, He will make your way right, Prov 3:5,6, Ps 119:105.
The most important point in all this is: The God of the Bible says tht He is going to anninilate all these gods that did not create the heavens and the earth, Jere 10:11,14,15. It behooves everyone on earth to learn about the God of the Bible, who promises to make this earth a Paradise, and to resurrect billions of the dead to enjoy everlasting life on earth as was God's original purpose, Gen 1:26-28, Isa 45:18, John 5:28,28, Acts 24:15. No other god can promise these things.
Your mother might believe what she says about HELL, but she has been deceived by false teachers. The world is ruled over now by Satan the devil,and his teachers want people to believe anything that is wrong, that makes The God of the Bible look wicked. The FACT is: The term hell is a curruption of the Greek word hades, and means only the common grave of mankind. This can easily be seen by a comparison of Ps 16:10, and Acts 2:27,31. Jesus was also in hades, and He was a perfect man, never did he sin, 1Pet 2:22, Heb 4:15. Jesus was also God's onlybegotten son, John 1:18. God would never have let His son go to a place of torment, as false teachers today teach about hades.
Ask your mother to look up hades in Bible dictionaries to find the truth. Ask her also to reason on another point: Is it really JUST to punish a person for ETERNITY for sins that he committed for just a few years?? Even mankind would not do such a thing!!! Notice that God is JUST in all His dealings, Deut 32:4, Ps 86:5,15, Job 34:10,12.
Another point for your mother is this: The wages sin pays is DEATH, Rom 6:23, which means that when a person dies he has paid for his sins, in fact he as paid the ultimate price, his life. Therefore he is even with God, nothing is owed to either party. This is recorded very plainly at Rom 6:7, where we are told that a person who has died is ACQUITTED from his sins. By undeserved kindnessor Grace God is going to resurrect billions of dead people, on the basis of Jesus's ransom sacrifice, Matt 20:28, John 1:29, Eph 1:7 , Heb 10:11-18.
We are very near to the time when Jesus said that he would return, in fact this generation will not pass away before God's Kingdom will take over this earth, the Kingdom we pray for recorded at Matt 6:9,10, Matt 24:33-35.
