But if as a Christian one reads the New Covenant then it is indeed hard to rationalize away that those who reject Christ can reach his side after death even if they did all sorts of good works.
Good works is new aged philosophy espoused by many new so called Christians who eschew literalism and moral conduct and preach relativism and a Peace Corps mentality.
However I hope God has a place for decent non believers but I sure cannot say that with certainty just wishfulness.
I do though think God will not suffer well those who rejected him when given a chance.....a chance many in history never had...that would be lapsed folks like Hitchens and rejectionist Pharisee types...etc
I hope Hitchens found some accord with God those final minutes of twilight between earth and beyond.
For his sake.
Thinking someone is confined to darkness and the grasp of Satan for eternity is down right scary and just not something I wish on fairly benign damaged souls like poor Hitchens. I'm just not like that.
It's just sad how anyone could not see the love and beauty of life in children, the earth's majesty, the human spirit and valour and glory and sacrifice, the incredible God created beauty of the female form and the life that springs so literally from that...the creativity of man...and so forth
all that and deny there is a higher power...hell, just ponder the skies at night
it takes arrogance to deny God...forget Christendom..just denying God is a leap of hubris denying logic of empirical observance of the wonders that surround us.
must be a sad existence to think this is all there is and it was some billion year accident
and that man is the top of the food chain in the Universe...no way
anthropocentric humanism...the amniotic fluid of messianic liberalism is a lonely death
“good works”
I believe that good works, so to speak, are the result of someone being a good and loving Christian, and not the other way around. IOW, good works don’t get one into heaven.
“I do though think God will not suffer well those who rejected him when given a chance...”
That’s what the Good Book says.
“...it takes arrogance to deny God...”
Amen!
I love your colorful posts, and this is one of your better ones. You are a compassionate man. You understand God, and don’t presume to speak for Him. I am so thankful for that.