It's more like everyone has some light (understanding of the truth of God's existence) given to them by God. In our sinful condition we don't want to face the reality of a God who has authority over us and we also are repulsed by the thought that there is such purity in God that we appear very vile and worthy of judgment. So, people reject the knowledge they have and that is worldwide. God seeks out, but people reject Him, whether or not there is the gospel message. All have sinned, all are under God's judgment. God is not obligated to save or be kind to anyone. God decided one way to call people to repentance would be to use people who have already repented and walk by faith in Him....and that is true from the time of Adam through present day. That is God's decision. He can send people with the message to anyone, anywhere, in the world. I personally met someone who said her muslim husband came to faith in Jesus after having a dream about Jesus and she seemed to be saying that no Christians ever shared with him about Jesus, but there was a little bit a language barrier and I didn't want to ask too many questions, so I'm not sure I understood her on that. However, she was emphatic that He only came to faith in Jesus because of his dream, and then later she became a Christian too. The point is that God isn't restricted to using people, He can reveal Himself to whoever He wants, but there is only one way to be reconciled to God and that is through Jesus, because Jesus is the God-Man who died in our place, SO THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO COME UNDER GOD'S JUDGMENT, if only we will repent and personally trust in Jesus for Him to make us reconciled to God.This is christianity......
ANY PERSON, but just for clarity let's use a native in South America......
A christian missionary visits and says; "If you don't accept my message, when you die, my loving God who created you, will cast you into a burning lake of fire in hell for eternity where you experience eternal pain and anguish".
"The choice offered is simple, accept my word, accept that you need to conform to me, accept you need to change your culture, accept you need to believe me, accept you need to become dependant on a church, either that or you are doomed for eternity, this is our message of hope for you."
So the christians are right and everyone else is wrong.
Hell is more real than you think! THE PROOF that God exists.
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An insane person doesn't know they are insane.
Yes, I think that often, not only that I am wrong, but I am also lacking self-control.
I am still mostly demo trading, but doing pretty good, and it's all because I've been super committed to not only having clear rules, but also submitting to those rules. I see what I think will happen, and instead of trading what I think, I have to follow my indicators and most of the time that means waiting because it's not quite lined up right. I'm not a pilot, but I know that there are times a pilot will trade just using instruments and I kind of feel like that describes my current trading style. I wait until the indicators say go, then go and move with the indicators. Indicators are lagging, I know, but when trading, I have to let them lead and it's kind of hard to do that. "Lead" means leads me in making my decision of what is going on in the chart. Just thought I'd share what I'm working on with trading. I think I broke through a mental barrier this week.
Where in the world did you ever get that idea? I do not know of a single Christian that thinks like that.
Convinced, dogmatic, sure of themselves, dug into their position, unmoved, resolute.
But cultism more than anything, the inability to stand on own two feet, rather they follow doctrines fed by their masters.
When the master says it's true, then it's true.
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Actually, my experience has been that Christians find it easy to admit they are wrong and also say they are sorry to others. I think it's because we are in the habit of messing up and telling God we are sorry, on pretty much an almost daily basis.
If there is one thing that we are very sure of, it is of God's truth!!!!
That's a result of your masters conditioning you the believe you are guilty.Actually, my experience has been that Christians find it easy to admit they are wrong and also say they are sorry to others. I think it's because we are in the habit of messing up and telling God we are sorry, on pretty much an almost daily basis.
We are born imperfect, nothing we can do will make us perfect, yet christians strive in vain to be perfect.
Striving to be perfect always leads to failure, failure in christians leads to guilty feelings, but your masters want you to feel guilty, its in the doctrine to be this way.
And the surer you are, the more wrong you are.
Lets imagine for a moment there is a God.
He is so vast, diverse, magnificent, evolving, beyond our wildest imaginations, stretching out billions upon billion of light years, forever expanding, I would assume.
But christians claim to have a handle on God via a rickety book called the bible, just preposterously laughable.
I think guilt is a healthy thing, if it's experienced in the right way. Guilt is what helps me feel sad when I've said something hurtful to someone else. Guilt helps me own up to my failure. Guilt without forgiveness would be heartbreaking, because then there is only judgment (whether we are judging ourselves, or God's judgment). But mercy with guilt is very good, because mercy and forgiveness allows for acknowledging and turning from error and then knowing the joy of reconciliation and peace, and that goes for people to people relationships as well as God and people relationships.
I think I can liken this to trading. The market knows no mercy, it is like a judge. In a sense, it follows the letter of the law, and the law is that whatever price does, it does. If someone loses their account and then wants mercy, there is NONE. No mercy.
The only way to get along decently with the market is to find it's usual behavior and carefully follow it's behavior, hoping that tendencies the market had in the past will continue in the future. Demo trading is more like a dear friend...always forgiving and replenishing a bankrupt account. Only demo trading is not real and I'm not sure how to make a comparison with trading and mercy in the real world. Oh dear. @themickey- no Christians think we have a handle on God. Christians are happy that God has revealed Himself to us in the Bible!!! God is beyond our wildest imaginations, yet He has shown some of His character to us.