[joesnuffy]

Better for everyone that we live as if there really is one creator God to whom we owe everything including our final destination in the hereafter...(of course you'd better live according to the 'correct one and only God' and not 'the wrong one and only god' as they each have vastly different ends and means by which life must be lived)

There after all only two choices

Even if we never really believe unto salvation....but have a sort of religiosity/godliness but denying the power thereof...the end is exactly the same as if we made all the other wrong choices..even though we made our space and time here more comfortable for others...

Which is a still good thing... even though the will to do such good things did not originate in us at all...but came down to us from the the creator and provider of all good things.. the one true God.

And so...is it really better to miss the mark completely by an evilly wide margin than to miss by only a a hairs-width...and call it good?

Only God can give the correct answer to that one....and all decisions are final.

Of course the whole notion of a 'purgatory' adds a whole new dimension I suppose..I dont put any faith in that...though YMMV :)

imo

[HOTTIEBOY]

That was a good point that you made.
If people live their entire lives in the name of Christ but behave in a way that only marginally misses righteousness in the eyes of God, they may as well have raped and murdered their whole lives because they are meeting the same fate.

It is Ok for a Hindu to eat a ham sandwich but he will be damned to hell for eating that hamburger.
The funny thing is, if this same person were Jewish, it would be the other way around. Is either one any less a believer that he is not allowed into the kingdom?