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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the eyes of god, a Christian is always better.[/quote]

Your proof?  How about a [b]bad Christian vs a good Jew[/b]? Does your god still pick the bad Christian?[/quote]

A valid question.

I would like to believe that  a good person regardless of religion or lack of is better then bad person regardless of religion or lack thereof.
If God is good and just then it would be logical that he puts good over bad. 
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God IS good and just. That's why ALL of us need a savior for our sins, which we all have. And He provided one in Himself, the LORD Jesus Christ. He doesn't care about labels, and His forgiveness is available to everyone in the world. [b]If you refuse to believe in Him, that's your prerogative[/b], but the LORD won't be blamed at the Judgment.[/quote]

And HE - the good and just God -- will send you to hell for eternity.  Why?  Because you didn't believe in Him!  Sounds like a scam to me.  Yet some people believe it.  Why?  perhaps it makes them feel superior - or like they caught a lucky break.[/quote]

Of course you don’t get it. You aren’t a believer. None of it makes sense to you and it never will. You’ll never find wisdom or peace or answers or comfort from religion, because you don’t believe. It’s not a mystery. Those of us that do believe do find those things. It’s understandable you think religion is a scam because you chose to call it false and say God is false. People who believe believe. It’s simple.[/quote]

How would you explain it to someone who was sincerely interested in becoming a Christian, but was having dificulty accepting the idea of  God sending people to hell for eternity for not believing in him?[/quote]

“Just because God is loving, does not mean that he loves everything—there are some things that God doesn’t love, that in fact he hates. So he doesn’t love murder, or abuse, or selfishness, or pride. Actually, if he is loving, then he will hate these things. It wouldn’t be very loving of God to look at something like child abuse and say: “Well, I’m not really that bothered.”

So God is loving—and yet he doesn’t love everything.

And because this loving God hates bad things, he does something about it. And this is good news. We all have a kind of a sense of justice—so it’s good news that people who mistreat others are not allowed into God’s perfect kingdom, but are shut out—that is, they’re sent to hell.

And it’s not something that Jesus says flippantly or lightly, without caring. He doesn’t say it just to scare us. But he does say it to warn us—and to help us see how amazing it is that he offers us a way out.

Because this is the amazing news—that even though we all deserve punishment, even though we deserve to go to hell, Jesus—God himself—has provided a way out for us. He doesn’t do this by leaving things unpunished, and so forgetting about justice. He does it by himself taking our place; in his death taking our punishment and himself experiencing hell so that we don’t have to.

It seems to me as if this is a truly loving God. He loves the world enough to punish wrongdoing, and he loves people enough to take the punishment himself.

He loves us enough to give us a choice: we can to ask him to be part of our lives now, and so avoid hell and look forward to enjoying his perfect eternal kingdom.“

https://www.christianityexplored.org/Articles/469280/CE_ORG/Tough_Questions/Transcripts/07_How_can_a_loving.aspx

If you reject God but also believe he exists, I don’t know what to tell you. Agnostic and Atheists don’t believe in God and thus I don’t know why they would care what a God they don’t believe in does. 
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And the thing God hates the most is someone who doesn't believe in him.  You can do  all the good things mentioned above, but if you don't believe in God, then he sends you to hell, no matter what.

Atheists and agnostics don't believe it, but in the end, it won't matter, because, if there truly is a god, they will still end up in hell.  But at least they spend their short lives here on earth not fearing it.

God even sacrificed his own son as a way of showing his love for us.   If anyone else did anything like that, they be sent straight to prison, or maybe the psychiatric ward.  But God did it out of his love for us and Christians understand that.[/quote]

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