So, in a nutshell, you can't prove sh!t to me, I can't prove sh!t to you, and in this pointless thread, no one wins.
Actually, those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior win, and sadly, everyone else is dammned to hell.
So how do you know WHICH 'bible' to have faith in?
The true, Divinely Inspired Word of God, and I think you and everyone else here knows that I meant the Holy Bible. It is the onlky one that is divinely inspired from God.
Oh, it MUST be the Holy Bible, because thats what you grew up on, and thats what you know about, right?
God Bless ym parents for giving me a sound Biblical foundation, but I still have had to decide for myself whether to believe or not. We cannot "inherit" salvation, we have to believe for ourselves. There was a time when I wasn't a believer. I was looking to get away from it all, but, the Lord brought me to him and I truely accepted Christ as my Personal Lord and Savior.
I am a good person. I try really hard to be a good person in my life. One doesn't need religion to be a good person. And I don't think, if there is a God and a heaven, that good people who don't believe in God wouldn't get into heaven, while people who are less good would get in merely on the basis that they believe in God.
And I have the following verses for you:
John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am
the way
the truth and
the life; no man cometh unto the Father
but by me." Jesus is the only way to get to the Father (which is in heaven)!!!
Galatians 2:15 "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. " Works won't save you. Your being a "good person" can't save you.
Only Faith through Jesus Christ can save you.
Ephesians 2:8-9For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast." Again, same thing. Works can't save you from your sins, and you will die if you still have your sins.....
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of
sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord!!!"
I ask you, where do you base your beliefs about heaven? Are they based on anything except personal opinion? What about what God has said in the Bible? I will be praying for you.
Then how do you explain the contradictions in the bible? If God is love, why does God kill or order people to kill thousands and thousands of people (including children) in the bible?
They aren't contradictions, but rather they compliment each other. God does love man, but he cannot look upon sin, and bad things that happen, he uses to bring people to him.