[gcruse]

Quite frankly, salvation doesn't mean a whole lot when
the person "saving" you is the same person who's threatening you!

Who knew the Stockholm Syndrome was the ground
of being for theology??

[keithtoo]

God doesn't threaten anyone with eternal damnation genius. Even an elementary knowledge of Christianity would inform you of that. Man, left entirely to his own self, would will independence from God. Damnation is not a result of any perditious action, it is a result of inaction, of not according God His due office. God doesn't send anyone to Hell, which is nothing but separation from God and his divine grace. He merely gives those that seek to ignore Him, their wish.

The bottom line is that God is a 'gentelmen', He doesn't go where He is not invited. If you wish to exist separate from Him, you can have your wish. If you like anarchy and evil without any force to stop it, you can and will have it.

As for me, I will trust Christ to have paid for my sins, past and present. I look forward to spending eternity with someone who loves me with a love supassing my own understanding and who wishes nothing but to give me what a loving Father would give his own.