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Originally Posted by Independent Christian

Infinite Thoughts--ah, to the contrary, a "Christian" shouldn't be believing merely in some man made system but in Jesus Christ himself.

And I'll even cut to the chase by saying that faith in Christ is all for naught if he did not rise from the dead. While we cannot prove this 100% beyond any doubt (none of us were there, for one thing), we can use our minds to discern the evidence and see how it stands.

If someone determines in advance "that's impossible, we've never seen it," then he/she has already decided and chosen to ignore the evidence.

Pavlina went on an anti-Christian/religious rant in late May--a column that caught my attention for the overly broad brushed stroking it was. All believers are minions and all leaders are evil deceivers, according to his article. I find his take to be just as absurd in that extremity. Rather, I agree with him there is immense hypocricy in the name of Christianity--as with any religion.

However, to dismiss it all on those grounds is both simplistic and insincere. Since those are the very things Pavlina supposedly stands against, I have to believe or hope he has deeper determinations for his anti-religious rant.

Instead, I would just ask those who espouse many of his viewpoints to do the very thing he regularly insists--use your own brain, independent of others' dictates, his included.

Using the brain and reasoning, I can find no reason to believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to avoid hell. There is no reasonable proof of even the existence of hell.