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Originally Posted by Concrete Girl
Yet, when I was faithfully going to Church the only thing I ever felt was that I was pressured to believe all that the bible states, or I would not be able to enter Heaven. That is how I feel as a Christian, not at all comfortable, but unaccepted and pressured. Not the need to become a Christian, but the need to escape from being a Christian, if that makes any sense.
I don't believe in Hell, or the devil, yet that is clearly stated in the Bible that there is a Hell. I also don't believe that if there WERE a Hell, that God would send ANYONE no matter what kind of sins they had committed, to suffer so much as they would in Hell. That would simply make him evil, and far from perfect, don't you think?
I would truly love to be a follower of God as I always have been, but without all of the extra crap that goes along with being a Christian, and going to church as a Christian.
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The thing about Christianity is you cannot pick and chose what and what not to believe. It's either all true or none of it is true. You either believe God, or you believe He is a liar. I can tell you I believe God, because for me there is to much evidence of His existence to call Him a liar, when the book is the WORD of God. So to eliminate any part of the Bible is eliminating what God Himself said.
God is perfect. Hell is what we deserve, when you become Saved or come to the realization for you need of a Savior it because evident that this is what we deserve. God created the world to have a relationship with Him. Because He gave man a free will, man chose to sin against Him, and therefore we separated ourselves eternally from God, and He calls us to be reconciled back to Him, which is why He came down to earth in the form of a human so that we could have a one time sacrifice to be reconciled back to Him and share the relationship with God that we were supposed to have. A lot of people say "oh well if God sends us to hell then He doesn't love us, He is not perfect". This is because you are choosing to love darkness, you don't realize everything wrong that you have done. You have committed a capital crime against your creator. In life when you commit a crime, are we not punished? Hell is our punishment for our Sins.
Just because you chose to not believe in Hell, because you aren't as smart as God (not to sound rude, but you aren't) and can't understand His divine plan and why precisely God would send anyone tell Hell, doesn't mean that Hell doesn't exist. I may choose not to believe in gravity, yet if I were to tell you I am going to go jump off a cliff you would try and warn me because you know gravity does exist and I would die if I were to jump off. The Bible is God's warning to us, in the end you will either chose to believe in God's warning or you will go into an eternal death.
I am not trying to argue with you, I am sharing with you what I believe, and what the Bible says. I am not going to force any of this on you because ultimately it's between you and God if you chose to become saved or not. All I can do is let you hear what He has to say about the questions you were curious about.
It is good to be analytical about the bible yet trying to understand the bible completely and intellectually will never happen, because it is written by someone who is greater than us. If you are genuienly interested in God's word I can tell you with certainty that God is trying to open your heart to Him because the Bible says, that no one seeks after God, but that God seeks after him/her and whoever hears Him, and opens his door for God, that Jesus will accept Him into His eternal Kingdom. So I hope if you are hearing God tug at your heart that you will answer Him, and not harden yourself, because nothing but Jesus can save you, and eternity is a long time to spend in hell eternally separated from God.