





[color="Indigo"]Okay, where to start? I really don't know how to explain this but I'll try my best.
I wrote something in a thread on another website concerning salvation. I was trying to lie low but I couldn't help but say something. . .
This is the post that started the conversation (not mine, another person): [/color]
"Hello there!
While I know that questioning the many flaws in Christian faith will supposedly cause me to be damned to Hell for being correct, I'd still like to point this out":
http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb98/gardyfunkle/Christianity.jpg
So I said:
[color="DarkRed"]"If you're worried about being damned to Hell why don't you assure your place in Heaven? Just in case, right?"[/color]
And someone else said:
"then it'd be faith by fear."
Then someone else said:
"faith by fear isn't a bad thing! We are supposed to fear God and what He could do to us! So I think that "faith by fear" is perfectly ok, as long as it grows later. I mean, I know plenty of really Godly people who came to Christ because they were afraid of going to hell."
So I said:
[color="DarkRed"]"Right on. Also, fear means respect."[/color]
Then someone said this concerning my earlier comment:
"Why not try to reach Nirvana. Just in case, right?
Hell, why not live life to the fullest, just in case it's your only one?
This is not an answer, it's an excuse. "
[color="Indigo"]I really need help to straighten up what I said since I can't take the words back.
Please try to understand what I meant to say first. I meant to be a bit sarcastic and humorous and laid-back about it. It made sense to me in my head and since I was rushing to put something down, I screwed up big time and didn't expect it to be taken the way it was. . . although I should have.
I have Skype so if anyone wants to talk about it that way I'd appreciate it soooo much.
Please send me any comments through this thread or PM's or Skype.[/color]