(The original question is about how Christians could believe that loving people like Gandhi are going to hell)
god is love
so if you do not know god you do no understand love
you may have tasted you may have touched it but you do not understand it
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Strange love, which orders entire towns killed (or destroys them with its own hand), an entire planet flooded (with almost all humans as well as animals killed), orders humans killed, for example because they touch a sacred relic with the intention to prevent it from falling from a cart, orders married women stoned who get raped within a city or orders them to get married to their rapist if they weren´t married and so on (see OT)
Sounds to me as if it is more worth to adhere to Gandhis understanding of love than to gods (and his fundamentalists) understanding of the same thing
"Know god" here is to be translated as accepting god's any action as an expression of his love. It does not matter what the nature of that action may be. The viciously circular nature of this line of thought seems never to occur to the holders to this kind of blind faith. The motivation to believe this line of reasoning is derived from the fact that the believer comes out smelling like a rose. Yet in fact they are covered in the slimy shit of eminently selfish, self-centered believe. I've go mine. It must be a good thing. Ditto: bullshit. Yet bullshit that is never detected by the shitter.
you may have tasted you may have touched it but you do not understand it
Hey! Check this out. We can apply this analogy to other things as well.
For example, I have tasted pussy, I have touched pussy, but I do not understand women.
Looks like craps, smells like crap, tastes like crap.
It is crap! Good thing I didn't step in it.
So voice of Logic, since you are not, or ever have been, an atheist, how can YOU possibly understand.
I think not, since your style of ignorance is the deepest of all.
If gos were real, I would prefer to be in hell with Gandi, the Buddahs, and Siddartha than with Bundy, Hitler and all the Serial Killers.
Love: another word, like good, and evil, that is essentially according to Christians when used from a human perspective.
You're right, I do not understand what your god's idea of love is. I also doubt that you understand what normal, healthy human love is. Hint: it does not involve threatening someone with eternal suffering just because they think your god is a festering boil on a camel's ass. Get over yourself. Gandhi managed to be the type of man that good and reasonable people could admire. The fact that he didn't carry on like a douchebag about deserving holy approbation, makes him even better by my book.
afaceless, the Bible tells us that whoever rejects Jesus Christ and does not come to Him for salvation will spend eternity in hell. Gandhi rejected Christ and failed to trust Christ for salvation. Gandhi chose to put his faith in Hinduism (pagan religion) and in humanism (good works). Based on what God's Word tells me, I can say with reasonable confidence that Gandhi is burning in hell as we speak, *unless* he put his trust in Jesus and repented of his sins before he died. The latter is always possible and only God knows for sure.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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