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Isn't Christianity based on saying we are born sinners and must be saved or be damned to hell?
| No.
Try reading the Bible without looking for evidence to prove your prejudices. |
Hmm... what does the bible say then about Jesus saves us? Why do we need to be "saved"?
If the stove is hot and my mother tells me not to touch it - do I know that it's hot for myself? I need to experience the heat and danger of that stove for myself or I really never really know it's hot - I'll just think it is and I'll be carrying a belief that is really someone esle's (even though it may be a true belief).
Telling me I need to believe in Jesus to not go to hell - well why is it only through Jesus? It's a warning message to believe something or else we suffer in the afterlife? And the warning is what? To believe Jesus saved our souls for us as long as we believe something the Jesus is the only way to connect to God? Or that without Jesus specifically we go to hell?