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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh I'll count on one of the religions that gives me salvation after death   There are a few of those right?[/quote]

Christianity gives you salvation after death, as long as you believed in God and Jesus during your life.  Even if you accept Christ at the very last moment before you die, you can still go to heaven, no matter how sinful your life has been.  God in his mercy  gives all his children this last chance.

[b]However, if you die suddenly, with no warning, and have not yet accepted Christ, then you cannot get into heaven.[/b][/quote]

I love this part.

An atheist who works with Doctors Without Borders who dies of a heart attack won't enter heaven.

b/c your god is a loving god[/quote]

Why would he [i]want[/i] to enter heaven if he denies Christ?  You really can't have it both ways.[/quote]

He doesn't deny Christ -- just doesn't believe in him.  Why doesn't Christ want a good person in his eternal kingdom?  Because "good" isn't the main criterion -- faith is.

Do you believe in a god like this?  Fine.  I suspect the doctors without borders don't want anything to do such a character - and so don't believe in him.[/quote]

Not believing in Him is denying Him.  That's such a strange argument.

So again, why would this doctor [i]want [/i]to go to heaven?

I am personally glad that "good" isn't the sole criteria (I say sole to avoid arguments from the faith without works camp).  Quite simply, we can never measure up.  We can never be good enough.  Thankfully, we don't have to be.[/quote]

I feel similarly. If the doctor thinks God is no more than a story and has already settled on the idea that all awareness ends with life on earth, then what's the problem? That doctor just ends and he doesn't have to go on.[/quote]

But if the doctor is wrong and there really is a god and a heaven (and hell) he doesn't "just end"  Instead, God, according to his own rules, is obliged to  send the doctor who did so much good while alive, to hell. [/quote]

Ah hah!!!  So this described do-gooder doctor/ atheist DOES have doubts about his beliefs, or non-beliefs as the case is here. I knew it.[/quote]

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