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Originally Posted by donb9006
There are Christians, they believe THEY are the ONLY way to heavenly bliss, everyone else is wrong and "will see" when judgement comes.
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I don't really like getting into these kinds of discussions, but there is one statement you made that I couldn't resist commenting on. Before I do though, I want to state that what I'll be stating is in no way my saying that you are right or wrong in what you state, but just my personal experience about what I've quoted.
I had 13 years of religious classes in the Catholic Schools I attended. At no time during those years did I once hear anything that indicated that "everyone else is wrong"
and would not go to heaven. Nor did I even sense that thought was being implied. What we were taught is that if someone, anyone other than a Catholic lived by the principles they truly believed in and lived by, that they would receive their "Heavenly bliss."
I've always remembered one thing that we were told about this. It's a little on the far out side, but never-the-less made the point the teacher was trying to convey. Paraphrased it went something like this... If Joe Blow from a neighboring cannibal tribe truly believed in and engaged in his tribes custom of boiling other human beings then consuming them, they would go to heaven, no how disgusting we believed that act would be, and deserved it just as much as we would. True story!
Now that I got that off my chest, it's time for me to get the caldron going for dinner. Don't want to eat too late and get indigestion during the night!
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