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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re essentially asking why I, as a believing person, don’t worry God is wrong and exercising poor judgment. [/quote]

This.

Also, my religion doesn’t teach people who aren’t our religion go to hell. It teaches that people who sin certain horrible sins and refuse to repent go to hell. That can include people in our religion. I could proselytize 24/7 and win converts, but I can’t make someone be a good person. [/quote]

Does God make them bad (in the same way, for instance, that he creates them poor or sick), then give them (some of them, at least, depending on where they live) the opportunity to be converted to Christianity and become good?[/quote]

Why are you obsessed with the idea that converting to Christianity is going to make someone good? If anything, some denominations teach that once you convert, you do not have an excuse for sinful behavior and are actually held to a higher standard. [b]In some communities, people wait until they are very old or on their deathbed to be baptized so that a lifetime of sin is washed away.[/b]

Anyway, my particular denomination emphasizes free well. God makes people neither good nor bad. People choose their actions. They can also choose whether or not to repent. [/quote]

Does this work?  That is, does God accept these late-life conversions knowing that the motive is to allow for a lifetime of sin?[/quote]

Your heart must believe it. It must be an honest and true choice. It’s not something you can do superficially, and not mean it authentically. [b]
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Anyone? Do you have to believe in Jesus Christ?[/quote]

In Christianity, yes.[/quote]

well that's not really the answer because you (or some pp) said, and I quote, "Anyone at any time can receive the gift of salvation." So do you have to believe in Jesus or can anyone receive the gift of salvation???

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