[Lazamataz]

We posted simultaneously. The Muslim with a strong faith in God as told to him in the Koran, (not the same) can never be in heaven then, right?

This smug self-importance is one of the main turnoffs of Christianity.

[maranatha]

Your displeasure is with what God of the Bible says, not with me. I am assured by His word, that I know Him, that I am His child, that I am forgiven, I know my future with Him, and put my total faith and trust in Him and His word. I don't have to guess about some secret game plan God has up his sleeve when I die, and that it will be something different than what He says. Yes, I am totally sure. Smug is your nasty little word.

It's amazing. A person can say, look in the Bible and read this chapter or type it on the screen, and a person like you gets all bent out of shape because he doesn't agree with what God says because through his own brilliant reasoning of what he thinks God should be like he doesn't agree with it (although God says it) and thinks the person who showed it to him is all screwed up. Amazing.

[parsifal]

"This smug self-importance is one of the main turnoffs of Christianity"

How true. Christians would convert a lot more people if they simply lived in accordance with some their beliefs and left off the attempts at theology. It does not help that so many of their "teachers" and "learned" reverends, particularly the Baptists [whereof I know much of what I speaketh], wallow and revel in ignorance and anti-intellectualism as if God's love were inversely proportional to IQ.

[Joshua]

"This smug self-importance is one of the main turnoffs of Christianity. "

If God is just, as the bible states, I think he'll honor your request. I can't see him forcing you to spend eternity in heaven with a bunch of smug christians..:)