abaya

There is no justice in it. That's one of the reasons Christianity stopped making sense to me, personally. I would ask all these questions about this case and that case (children dying before accepting Christ, people living in the Amazon who had not heard of Christ, people who had heard of him but still rejected him, etc)... and the only answer I would get were that "It's a mystery. Leave it to God's will and have faith. MEANWHILE--get out there and keep witnessing, funding missionaries, saving the lost, etc. And yeah, sorry to tell you this, but anyone who does not pray the salvation prayer and ask Jesus into their life, is gonna go to hell. Including your devout Thai Buddhist grandma who has lived a better Christian life than most people you know... sorry, it's a harsh truth.."

In the end, I could see that there were no two ways around it. I either believed in hell, or I didn't. I either believed that I needed to accept Jesus' death and resurrection as a necessity for me to be saved, or I didn't. I either believed that everyone else around me who had NOT prayed the salvation prayer was going to hell, or they weren't. I chose to stop believing in all those things. This was not the kind of faith system I wanted to be a part of anymore.

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran