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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Christians are the highest contributors to charity and community volunteering. Life would a lot different without them.[/quote]

Without Christians giving to Charities, we'd just have good people giving to charities which would hopefully include the former Christians. Could be, though, that Christians only would give to and volunteer for CHRISTIAN causes, thus helping them get into heaven, which is every Christian's goal.[/quote]

Are you genuinely uninformed or just make up stuff like this for fun?  Are you the Santa fairy person too?  Tinkerbell died because you didn't clap.  Mary Martin was very sad. [/quote]

Are you suggesting that getting into heaven is NOT every Christian's goal?  Granted, some people are just plain good.   However, if they are also Christian, they believe that their good works will get them into heaven when they die.   Somehow, they think they're different from other living things, like their precious pets that they "put to sleep" when they're old and sick.[/quote]DP

You are incorrect concerning the true fundamentals of Christianity:

[i]For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
[b]Not of works, [/b]lest any man should boast.[/i] (Ephesians 2:8)

Nobody is “just plain good”.

[i]…there is none good but one, that is, God.[/i] (Mark 10:18)

And we are different from animals (which we did not evolve from):

[i]All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.[/i] (1 Corinthians 15:39)

God sees is as more valuable than animals because we are made in the image of God.

[i]Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.[/i] (Matthew 10:31)

The other religions are the ones that depend upon a person’s good works, not grace.

Hinduism: heaven (svarga) is achieved through performing good deeds.

Buddhism: Nirvana is achieved by doing good deeds and practicing compassion.

Islam: Jannah is achieved by faith in Allah and doing good deeds.

Reformed Judaism: there is no heaven.

Orthodox Judaism: One gets to heaven by good works (mitzvahs).

There are not multiple paths to heaven, only one:

[i]Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.[/i] (John 14:6)[/quote]

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