Does fundamentalist Christianity advocate the destruction of non believers, many people talk of a book of life
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I'm not sure Hell is a place where you get actually burned, but is a place without the presence of God. Hope you end up in the same place as me.
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The problem might not be with you, but all non-believers have had quotes tossed at them and when I attempt to discus quotes with quotes, the discussion always boils down to me being told that I'm taking the Bible out of context and I'm wrong, of context my argument, some Christians will shut it down.  \n\nI don't know if you are one of these people or one of the Christians that honestly enters into a discussion.
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when non-believers die they go to Judgement, and are judged on their life's works.
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To every one of us, who is religious, our holy book is a miracle. And it should be. For Muslims, the quran (not quarn) is the ultimate miracle, a revealation that came strating from God to his chosen messenger, mohammed.\n\nThe christians are equally passionate about their bible. What is important for humanity is that we learn to recognize each others miracles and treat them as such and respect each other's views. \n\nIt is very disheartening to see that in places like south africa, ppl are actually fighting over whose book is "right".
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I have seen the phenomenon you're describing, but I don't think it's using the term "Christian" in a different way so much as having an incorrect notion of who is and is not a Christian.\n\nIn any religion you are going to find a small subset of people who believe they and they alone possess the truth and anyone slightly outside their group is completely wrong.  Some fundamentalist Christians fall into this trap and believe that anyone disagreeing with any part of their beliefs is not a Christian.\n\nI consider myself a fundamentalist Christian.  When I was young I believed silly things like Catholics weren't real Christians.  As I grew in my relationship with God I realized that was dead wrong.
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There are certainly enough cults that claim to be Christian, including all of fundamentalism in my opinion.  \n\nI think we are far too shy about using the word "cult" when its appropriate.  For a group of people to consider themselves Christians when they accept the verbal inspiration of the Bible is a joke, whether they are Jehovah's Witnesses or Southern Baptists.  The book speaks for itself and clearly establishes itself as a book of myths, lies, and fairy tales.  \n\nChristianity relates to the worship of Jesus Christ as the son-of-god and Saviour -- not to biblio-idolatry.\n\nThank you for pointing it out, whether or not inadvertently.\n\nRegards,\n\nReynolds C. Jones\nSchenectady, NY\nhttp://www.rebuff.org\nbelieveinyou24@yahoo.com
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Yes but  They like so many others have other books and other prophets.  Joseph Smith for instance, was not a prophet of God, but they would say yes.  There are many things they do that the Bible says not to do.  Not bashing, just telling the truth and I can back it up with a lot of scriptures and Mormon statements if you would like.
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To the Mainstream Christians, Jesus the Christ sacrificed Himself for the sake of removing the Original Sin off humanity, and in so doing Jesus the Christ opened a pathway to Eternal Life by His Salvation for humanity.  This is, of course, the view point of the Christians in general.\n\nTo the Gnositic Christians, such as the Cainites and Sethians, the Death of Jesus is viewed in ways very different from the Mainstream Christians; many of these gnostical views are termed as heretical and blasphemous even as far as to consider them satanic by many Mainstream Christians.\n\nThe view of the Gnostic Christians on the Crucifixion of Jesus is that, Jesus of Nazareth chose Death in order to release the Spirit within; in other words, he died for the sake of showing there is an Eternal Life by following his methods (of spiritual practices, not in the attempt on death), and not as an offering to the Eternal Life: "Pick up YOUR cross, and Follow me."\n\nOf these two very different, and might even opposing, views; each individual is entitled to select which to believe by his or her own choice.  The Scriptures, after all, can be read in more than one way -- let the Holy Spirit guide you or let the Divine Grace bestow you, the choice is always a personal one.\n\nPax et Amore Christi vobiscum,\nLux Mithrai ex Tenebras Crucis.
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Many do not believe that,because they don't believe in God. Many of them also say they know the Bible better than the believers,and thus they will also be held accountable for all the knowledge they have gotten from God's Word and still remained unbelievers.
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Your non faith has just as big a question mark to me as my faith does to you...and...I am not selfish.  Why are non believers so radical and a lot of times mean?
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Actually I worked with a very cruel woman who was a minister in the the No Name Church.  She justified mistreating those in her way as necessary in the world at this time.  (I don't think it was their belief, I just think the wrong person in their religion was given some power.)  I witnessed many manipulative cruel schemes in the work place to help her gain a position of power.   I grew up in a fundamentalist hotbed of religion and thought I had seen and heard everything up to that point.  People like Ted Haggard may do damage on a phenomenal scale, but I have never seen evil masked as Christianity as I did with this woman.  It was truly a eye opening experience as I listened to how other members had to come to her for council and her advice . . . such as advising one man to divorce his wife.  Part of her rationalization was the marriage ceremony was not printed in the Bible so it was a man-made contract not supported by the Church.
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Yikes!  Oh, yes, the bible thumpers are SUCH a peaceful bunch, aren't they?  I think they forgot about the Holy Crusades.  Anyone who adheres to an organized religion must automatically surrender brain cells at the door, otherwise they would realize that killing someone is not going to save them from hell or anything else.  Problem is, most of these people were born and raised in their faith and will never consider that any other way to live is possible.  They were brainwashed from such an early age that they become enraged when their 'faith' is challenged.
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First of all, I don't know what you mean by "believer".  Anyone who believes anything is a believer.  Avoid letting fundamentalists box you into their label.  That gives them power.  If you're something other than a "believer", than it makes it sound like you're just stubborn or something.  You may well believe in all sorts of values, such as an objective quest for facts and trying to be good just to make the world a better place.  Instead of calling them "believers", if you're talking about fundamentalists, call them fundamentalists or fanatics.  Be aware, however, that there are lots of religious people who are opposed to the whole notion that the only way to be good is literally following a book.\n\nThe whole point of America (I'm assuming you're American, but I realize that that may be a false assumption) is that we all have the right to believe whatever we believe.  If some people believe that the Great Kumquat is God, that's their right.\n\nSecondly, if I understand what you're saying correctly, you're asking if it's better to be good just because you think you'll get into Heaven and avoid Hell or whether you think it's better to just be good for good's sake.  That begs the question: what does it mean to be good.  With all due respect to those who follow holy books, I'd like to state my opinion about ethics.  I'm sorry if it offends anyone, but that's my opinion and we're hopefully all here to communicate.  So, any holy book devotees have now been fairly warned that they might not like what I have to say. :-)  (I still respect you guys as human beings, I simply disagree with a lot of you.)\n\nIt seems absurd and even dangerous to me to base one's ethics on literal belief in a book.  I think that ethics REQUIRES thought and reason.  We have to be able to understand how our actions affect others before we can truly be ethical people.  If we blindly follow some book or other and believe that that book is a literal communication from the Divine without any evidence that it is, and that book rationalizes doing terrible things to others, we'll do terrible things to others.  In the years of the Inquisition and the Witch Craze, the Church did exactly that!  So, I'm sick and tired of people who can use their book to rationalize torturing people to death telling me how to be a good person.\n\nHere are several reasons to be good that are totally separate from any concept of the Divine, Heaven or Hell:\n\n1. The world would be better off if we were nice to others and avoiding harm to others.  It would be worse off if we hurt others.\n2. Actions have natural consequences.  If you punch someone in the face, they're likely to punch you back, or worse, go to the police and report you for assault.  Conversely, if you're friendly and nice to others, they'll be more likely to be nice to you.  Therefore, we should be nice and avoid harming people.\n3. If one thinks literal belief in an afterlife is absurd because of lack of proof (literal belief in God, Heaven and Hell are to many of us as absurd as believing in Santa Claus and his toy shop in the North Pole), one must conclude that we only have this life to live.  If we believe that, than our only acts in life that really matter after we die are those acts that outlast us.  If we leave a legacy of pain and sorrow, then we left the world worse off for having been here.  If, on the other hand, we leave the world a better place for having been here, our life has lasting meaning.  Every person we help and every person we're kind to is a legacy.\n\nThrough a combination of empathy and logic, we can be good people, but, in my opinion, we're only really good when we liberate ourselves from blind faith in books and arbitrary rules, because, blind faith in books makes us ignorant as to what truly helps others and what truly hurts others.  On the other hand, reason and em
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I'm sure that there are some who wanted "fire insurance", if you will. They see the big picture of the interplay of good vs evil. Then see the whole of creation, either the immense universe, or the simple design of the flower everyday. They realize that they have committed "sin", at least disobeyed one of the ten commandments. They begin to think there might possibly be something to this "God" thing, and if so, maybe they ought to do something about it. \n\nThing is, that simple step of faith becomes something more than ever thought. It introduces them to a person. Jesus. He then introduces them to the living God. The fear of death or hell is no longer an issue. It is not because they believe it, but because of a real, dynamic relationship with a loving God allows them to know it for certain.
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Christians never take the time to explain such a basic question.  When written, the writers were talking about the people living at that time, of course.  If Rangedog is right,  there will never come a time when even the people who cannot read get the message, so it will never happen.  That is convenient for the believers. They can claim forever that the end is coming.
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Christian fundamentalists think that they're right and that everyone else is wrong. Also, they believe that the Bible calls on them to save everyone else from eternal damnation, so they'll use any means possible, no matter how intrusive it may be, to achieve this. If anything, though, their efforts usually seem to have the opposite effect.
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There are many scriptures on the subject of non-believers not being saved.  Since so many people seem to think that only the words of Jesus are true, lets look at what he said...\nMark 6:15  And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. \nMark 16:16  He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.\n\nJohn 3:36  (again Jesus speacking)  He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. \n\nJohn 3:18 (again Jesus speaking)  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.