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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist
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I believe much of salvation by grace and the idea of works ( Ephesians 2:8-10) is a simple hope for the salvation of others. The Lord’s Prayer ( Matthew 6:9-13) is as much for ourselves as well as others. Jesus Christ tells us to pray for evangelists and evangelism ( Matthew 9:36-38). Paul tells us the purpose of this in 1 Timothy 2:1-6.
I am not speaking as some kind of pseudo sublime guy; I often feel frustrated in daily life. Hell is unfortunately real but not inevitable to anyone. This is why I so strongly believe in the golden rule ( Matthew 7:1-12) & that anyone is judged by the light given them ( Romans 2:1-16). This is where the Lord’s commandments ( Matthew 22:36-40, Romans 13:8-10, etc.) click in for me for prayer, whatever charity I can practice ( Matthew 6:1-4). I drive a 12 year old car & do general warehouse labor.
There is a wrong way to think of ourselves in failing to truly live by faith & the Lord shows us this in Luke 18:9-14. I have often found what Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 helpful in summing up living by faith.
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