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Originally Posted by hambone
Really, there are guidelines for living and sins and all that. But behavior is not the thing sending someone to hell, if looking at this from a purely Bible based Christianity. It is a belief of Christ as a savior that gets you to heaven so that when your morals do go to crap and you commit a sin, it alright.
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Well, I wasn't so much projecting that question onto other Christians... it was a reflection more on me and the way *I* thought as a Christian. (My apologies if you took that personally; it was unintended.)
I was taught that people would go to hell if they did not accept Christ. To me, that was all tied up with moral issues as well. It wasn't so much about doing A, B, and C wrong... but about rejecting Christ as savior and being unrepentant for their sins, which meant eternal separation from God (hell). That was my understanding.
And over time, I found I could not maintain that kind of superiority... not because I was doing all the right A, B, and C things, but because I had chosen Christ. Which somehow gave me a ticket to heaven, while everyone else got screwed no matter what the various circumstances of their lives were. It was not the kind of justice (or grace) I was interested in, no matter which way I looked at it.
/hereby ending a complete and total threadjack...