Religion

By Luke Parrish

I am a Bible-believing Christian. I am not afraid nor ashamed to admit that I believe that there is only one way to Heaven, that all have sinned, and that the one way to recieve eternal life is through the blood of Jesus. When we confess our sins (and all have sinned) and change our hearts to be truly sorry for them, we will be forgiven of them.

Furthermore, I am not ashamed nor afraid to admit to believing that such practices as adultery, induced abortion, and idolatry are all abominations which could be justly punished by death and damnation. However, it must quickly be pointed out that the saving power of Jesus Christ can and will deliver us from these sins and their eternal consequences when we repent of them.

I think that Christians would do well to be more diplomatic in their approach to nonbelievers. While it is important to take a stand, it is also possible, and very easy to be over-zealous. Such statements as "If you do that you're going to Hell!" often do more harm than good. Many, many people who are currently living a filthy life will eventually turn around and follow Jesus. And many will not turn around simply because they were made mad at Christ, largely because of well-meaning persons telling them that they were going to Hell. In either case, I would not want to prophesy their eternal destiny as being damnation.

So, by way of a summary, we have all sinned, but God will save you if you repent of your sin, and the saved mustn't stand in judgement over the as-yet unsaved, because you never know.

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