Reply #63: Regarding Christians on other Christians

[Brentos]

One of the hardest (and easiest) tenant of the faith is what gets many Christians into trouble.

Super-short-non-explanatory version: To be saved one only has to believe that Christ is the savior (or, my reading of the text, on has to only not deny Christ after knowing him) to be saved. This really pisses many people off, because they want to be able to control their destiny. They want to earn credits to Heaven, convert heathens and make the creator happy, they want to do good works to help them get a better spot on the Heaven-train. Jesus' parable of the day-laborer (wrong name, I think) shows that no matter how much effort/time we put into it, we all get the same wages. So, regarding Hitler and shrub-boy, yeah, they could both be Christians and be saved if they truly believed or didn't actively dis-believe. Painful, we may not like it, but that is what the text shows. Maybe this is why I am tolerant of other beliefes (unlike Dobsons, et al) is that I don't judge any one else, I just want to learn, explore, and share my wisdom and knowledge, as then I can learn, explore, and gather wisdom and knowledge from others, as there is no way that I have more of any of those gifts then those around me.