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Some Christians take their religion at it's word because they were brought up in the faith. The term hard wiring would apply here.
They don't question because they were told it is the truth of God and is not to be questioned.
Indeed, at one time in the early church histories, questioning the Bible was a death penalty offense. And for the lower classes to even possess a Bible was too.
During the "Dark Ages" 500-1500 A.D. The Church of Rome burned Bibles and their owners. Because during that time most people, especially those in the so called peasant class, were illiterate. So what would they need possess a Bible or any book for, when they were incapable of reading it?
Thus, the word of God was only to be trusted by those anointed by God to dispense it.
Some people see the Bible as historic fiction. Some as allegory. Some as the absolute irrefutable perfect word of God.
And those who argue not believing in any or all of it, taking measure to judge others who do not, as going to hell violate the words of God that commanded they judge not lest they be judged. And they're also exhibiting the sin of pride.
But then again, they're human.
One of the greatest hurdles to overcome in human behavior is ego.
So to hold faith in any religion that, from it's platform proclaims itself as the one and only truth, and all others are false and damnable according to the writings of said religion, are what is known as an exclusivist doctrine.
To speak and say God created all. But he likes us best! And only when all others become like us, shall they see God,from whence they sprang as souls, again...as souls.
It's a great way to feel smugly superior. To think that God has a favorite.
When really, only man thinks that way.
When something is first believed to create all that is from itself and then sets up rules for finding his favor, by overcoming the human nature God bore us to have, is arguably elitist human ego insulting infinite omnigenesis with it's own smug superiority.
It is not blasphemy to witness God in your mirror when God says in the Bible that describes the Genesis of us all, that we are made in his image and likeness, and so too did Jesus in Luke 17:20-21.
“Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
If we all saw the word of God written on the heart and in the face of those we meet, be they of any faith or none at all, because we all were born from the same source, we'd live the true message of Christ and we wouldn't witness even the infighting that occurs through sectarianism.
Because Jesus message was Love. Anything less than that for any one, is not the message.
One which began as an oral tradition.
So that todays new testament was written by those who, if we accept Jesus was born in the year 1, can not be proven to have known him. Nor to be the apostles for which the names on the Gospels are attributed.
It's like a game of telephone.
Have a large collection of people in a room and begin a story with the first person and have them repeat that to the one nearest them and so on. By the time that story arrives at the last person and they repeat what they were told aloud, it is never the exact same story as began with the first person.
However, in Jesus time there were literate people. And as such there would have been accounts of Jesus far beyond that of the oral kind, were he to have done all that he did in his lifetime.
So, in short to answer your question, it's two part.
That answer for why do (some) mainstream Christians believe that anyone who disagrees with them is doomed?
First, the Bible say so. Indeed, if someone claims to be a fundamentalist Christian, they would not deem to talk to anyone not Christian.
2 John 1:10-11 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
Quite unlike what Jesus exampled, isn't it?!
Secondly, it may be observed it's because those type Christians enjoy being right, in the face of adversity, because to question their faith, being humans are egoists, is to question their intellect in electing to hold that faith.
So they take it personally. And for some, there's a smug satisfaction in thinking all those who don't agree with them will find out they were wrong for eternity, while roasting in the Hell God created to prove it.
However, the Bible says even there those who are damned will not be without God.
Psalm 139:8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
That is the blessing omnipresence (everywhere infinitely) affords the believer.
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DATE AND AUTHENTICITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT In the early twentieth century, most scholars dated the New Testament documents as follows:
Matthew, A.D. 851
Mark, A.D. 60-652
Luke, A.D. 80-853
John, A.D. 90-954
Pauline Epistles, A.D. 48-645
(Continues @ Source - Christian Evidences)
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