grasping the after wind
That's grasping after the wind
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This is where I was going with this. Now in Dante's Inferno there is a Purgatory, people who lived good lives but did not know Jesus, a temporary place. Cause many Christians claim that the truth reaches everyone person on Earth, all 7 Billion people while they are still alive. I have a hard time believing that the truth will reach all 7 Billion people on this Earth before they die, now whether or not they accept the truth is a different story.
Also people said he reveals through creation and conscience. I see two things wrong with that. If you never knew about Jesus, you might believe in God through creation, but you might not believe in only one God. You also don't know what/who God is, since you have no Bible. Second, conscience is not something everyone has, some people are scientifically proven to be sociopaths, as scientists did brain scans of all mass murders and other highly skilled criminals and they are all the same. A very small percentage, like 1 to 3 percent is that way. They can learn right from wrong, but they don't have an innate right from wrong. They might not even know why it is wrong, just that they were told it is wrong.
Edit: John: 6:44. This sounds like Predestination to me. Cause if Predestination, is true, then I feel like me trying is useless, cause I had a dream that I went to Hell when I was eight, and that I would go there when I died, like I could never reach God and he could never reach me. It wasn't the Hell people described, it was a dream, not that my actual soul went there, so it was watered down a lot versus people's souls that have been in the place and came back. And because Joseph could tell people what your dreams mean, I wonder if my dream meant exactly that. I was also told in CCD/Church that you choose to be with or turn away from God.
AFAIK people do not live good lives, God did not say living a good life has any relevance to one's salvation and Jesus is the sole path to salvation. Now with that in mind, how can someone that is completely ignorant of Jesus be saved? Not become saved,, because one cannot earn of find or acquire salvation by any means available to them but how can such a one be saved? Jesus was asked if, as he had said, that entering the Kingdom was like a camel passing through the eye of a needle "how can anyone be saved?". The person they were discussing that prompted this exchange between Jesus and the apostles claimed to have lived not only a good life but a perfect one having kept all the commandments from birth. I believe His response to that question is the only hope any of us, ignorant or wise, has of being saved.
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