braces_for_impact
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What, are you God, like The God? There are almost no "de facto Christian" ideas. You seem to confuse/conflate your personal interpretation of scripture, for the totality of all self described Christian thought.That's paradoxical.
I would have thought that it takes autonomous free will to reflect upon whether or not we have the free will to reflect upon our own free will. But maybe I'm pre-programmed to think that by my Creator who freely decided to create me as a robot.
I don't think that. If one Christian thinks "x" and another thinks "y" does that suggest not all Christians have free will?
... If [you don't] then you get to go to hell and burn for all eternity.
That does not seem to be free will to me.
Doesn't the creator/owner of this forum have the right to say ...obey the rules or get banned?
The consequences of ones actions don't undermine the freedom we have to make good or bad decisions.
...Also, I really have a lot of hostility towards the ideas of simply unbelieving is no different than commtting horrible crimes against ten year old children.
Except that's not a biblical idea.
The bible says - in several places - that we are judged proportionately to our deeds and the motives for those deeds. (See Proverbs 16:2 for example.) The good and the bad deeds "weighed" in the balance like on a set of scales. (See Revelation 2:23)
...I have an exceptionally hard time fathoming that mentality.
Fathom this.
A missionary travels to a remote village and tells everyone about Jesus. He tells them, “If you do not accept Jesus, you will burn in hell for all eternity.” Before the missionary leaves, the tribal elder asks, “If we had never heard about this Jesus, would God have sent us all to hell?” The missionary replies, “No, I don’t suppose God would condemn you due to your ignorance,” to which the elder replied “Then why did you tell us about him!?”
No, it very much is the defacto Christian idea. There are more than a few verse in the Bible that condemn unbelief. Those that do not believe are condemned already.
Then you really don't know anything about Christianity and are just revealing your own biases as what you think are facts. You also do not seem to understand the irony of your own assertion.
Chiao bella.
so then there is only one correct form of Christianity? which one? do tell. people have been in-fighting for thousands of years about this... that you have the final answer is simply amazing.
Why do I get the feeling that you are starting off with, "it's easy, I know exactly how to do Christianity"
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and then headed to a, "No one knew how hard a universal definition of Christianity would be"
No. Those are simply your own cognitive biases revealing yourself. Your hatred and bigotry are showing.
This seems to be a reoccurring theme. It seems whenever someone has different ideas than yourself and presents them in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, you endow their comments with malice, seemingly, so you can more easily dismiss what they have to say as the product of bigotry, hatred, or bias.
I'm sure this post feels like undue criticism to you, but I have to say, you seem to have a constant chip on your shoulder, and you seem to have a lot off bad ideological baggage you're carrying around with you and projecting onto others. We all have our flaws, mind you. Yet, by and large the people on this board are quite easy to get along with. They may critique your ideas at every turn, but that's kinda what we do here, and we all learn and grow from it. I suggest you try to consider it a learning experience and stop trying to interpret it as a personal attack on you.