Now I've run across some people who have had near death experience3s and visited "heaven" who claim to be genuine Christians, or claim to have become a Christian as a result of the experience. The4y sound quite convincing too, they talk like Christians, they quote the bible, they love Jesus, they love church. And yet even with these I find myself waiting and waiting and waiting for them to say something really clear about salvation, the gospel. They may yuse the term gospel but then it seems to amount to little more than the idea that Jesus teaches us to love people and be kind ot people. Eventually if I listen long enough something pretty clear that destroys the whole Christian framework shows up. Something like how it's not about Jesus Himself but about the way of life that Jesus taught, so that even people who don't believing in Jesus can be saved. After all the convincing sounding evangelical talk this usually reduces me to tears.
They may even talk about Hell, but Hell is where you go if you aren't kind to others. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE ONLYH SIN IN THIS FRAME OF REFERENCES. aND OF COURSE THE WORD SIN IS NEVER USED, AT LEAST SO FAR AS i HAVE HEARD IT HASN'T BEEN USED. i WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR hELL MENTIONED AT ALL BUTG IT'S AMAZING THAT JUST ABOUT ALL cHRISTIAN CONCEPTS CAN BE USED AND YET TURN OUT NOT TO MEAN WHAT THEY MEAN IN GENUINE cHRISTIANITY. oNE MAN WHO HAD BECOME A PASTOR AS A RESULT OF HIS nde, WHO HAD BEEN AN ATHEIST UNTIL THAT POINT AND BECAME A STRONG bIBLE BELIEVER AFTERWARD, EVEN SAYS HE IS A FOLLOWER OF TH3E rEFORMERS lUTHER AND zWINGLI, AND YHET HE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT JUSTIFICATION BY FIATH AND HE SAYS HE LOVES THE cATHOLIC cHURCH. hUH?
hE WORRIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE BGOING TO hELL BUT i'M WORRIED ABOURT HIM BECAUSE i DON'T THINK HE KNOWS HE IS NOT SAVED. i KNOW HE DOESN'T KNOW IT. hE HAS NO CLUE ABOUT jESUS DYING FOR HIS SINS AS FAR AS i CAN TELL, AND THAT HE HAS TO BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER TO BE SAVED, AND THAT BELIEVING THAT IS HOW WE ARE REGENERATED OR BORN AGAIN AND MADE FIT FOR THE kINGDOME OF gOD. nOT A HINT OF ANYTINGN OF THAT SORT, IT'S ALL A RELIGION OF GOOD DEEDS AND SPECIFICALLY THE GOOD DEEED OF BEING KIND OT OTHERS. aND YET HE SEEMS TO LOVE THE bIBLE, ALTHOUGH THE bIBLE TEACHES THAT WE ARE NOT SAVED BY OUR GOOD DEEDS, SAYS THAT OVER AND OVER VERY CLEARLY.
tHESE ndeS TEACH A FALSE AFTERLIFE AND A FALSE GOSPEL. tHEY MAY PROVE THAT THERE IS AN AFTERLIFE, IN FACT THAT IS WHAT THEY ACCOMPLISH FOR THOSE WHO ARE INVOVLED IN STUDYING THEM. tHEY ANSWER THE MATERIALIST BIAS AND PROVE THAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT JUST A FUNCTION OF BRAIN, WE ARE MORE THAN OUR PHYISCLA BEING. a chRITSIAN KNOWS THAT BY FAITH BECAUSE THE bIBLE TEACHES IT, BUT ATHEIST MATERIALISTS NEED THE JOLT OF A STRONG EXPERIENCE LIKE AN nde TO CONVINCE THEM. aND OF COURSE THE DOCTRINE THAT COMES ALONG WITH IT IS NOT REQUIRED TO CONVFORM TO cHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. iN FACT THEY SEEM TO BE MAKING UP A NEW RELIGION ALTOGETHER. sPECIFICALLY THESE EXPERIENCES TEND TO CONTRADICT cHRISTIAN DOCTRINE. tHEERE IS NO JUDGMENT THEY SAY, JUST LOVE, JUST LOTS AND LOTS OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND gOD MAKES NO DISTINCTIONS, IT'S FOR EVRYBODY. dIABOLICAL DECEPTION AND IT'S SADDEST WHEN SOMEONE COMES AS CLOSE TO THE TRUTH AS THE MAN i'VE MENTIONED ABOVE AND HAS NO IDEA THAT HE'S ONLY ON A chRISTIANISH PATH TO hELL. i'M PRAYING FOR HIM TO WAKE UP.
