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Originally posted by Stingy Jack
Orangestar, yes. Not believing in god is a one-way ticket to hell, despite how good a person you are. It seems that god is more interested in gratifying his own power-trip by requiring his followers to believe and worship him, than he is in how decent people are to each other.
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Stingy, God is NOT on a power trip. He created us as faithful followers, but allowed us to fall, so that we could HAVE the choice to follow him, and yes you're right, he is a VERY jealious God. He only wants us to worship HIM, not other gods or material items (ie: money).
Also in God's eye/mind (which I'll never understand myself) there is no such thing as a decent person. To God, a person who tells a little white lie is just as evil as a murderer. His judgement scale is far different than ours. The only way to get into heaven is to be PERFECT. Of which I am certainly not. God provided me away to get there, by providing his son, Jesus (who was both man and God, and there by the ONLY PERFECT human) to pay the punishment for our sins -'for the wages of sin is death'