I've said it befor and I'll keep saying it again. Religion is not God's doing.
Religion is an Idea created by man to be closer to God. Christ was Flesh and blood created by God to be closer to man.
At least that's my view. I sarted to go to church again after I found a really good non-denominational church. Its a festive place that makes me feel good about myself when I leave there. Too many people today mourn their faith rather than embrace it. I think the same proves true on the other side of the spectrum.
Unfortunately, to a lot of "true believers" what you're saying here is heresy. It's a human judgement intervening in the divine ways of God - you're not allowed to do that.
The Church and its form of faith is the only way to reach to god, and it is what God has created himself they say. The Bible are all his doing(and strangely they seem to hate the thought of the guys who actually wrote those words, may not actually have been 'perfect'). They also say there is only one way to salvation, and no other path - all other religions might hold a certain reflection of the light, but ultimately will avail naught when it comes to salvation.
Why? Why is that?
Well, apparently I'm not supposed to ask questions, either, or seek "reasonable" answers - as "reason" is a human thing, and God doesn't contact people that way(at least, according to 'them'). They say one just 'knows' when one confronts God. The inner intuitions are how he commands people, and thus one must obey to it, rather than ask questions.
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But then again, those people are also the same people who say the rest of the world, about 75% of the population who were all outside the Mediterranean world, thousands of years ago before missionaries, are all burning in hell because they never had the chance to accept Jesus into themselves.
I guess you can't really take those guys seriously - they're obviously out of their minds.
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Sorry for the cynical twist, but the day my sister turned fanatic, I called it quits with organized religion. If that's how somebody is "saved" then I'd rather not be saved at all.
