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Hi Pia, nice to meet you, too! I never knew that there was supposed to be any kind of retribution from God himself, be it hell or death. I thought that it was rather passive, like if you were good you go to heaven, if bad then to hell. I had no idea why it was important and why it happened that...

QUOTE (Denver @ May 4 2009, 05:33 PM) Well, go back to Leviticus. There were differences for the type of offering that was done after a sin. Aspects of sin were distinguished such as committing a sin in ignorance only to later realize it was versus a full blown sin known at the time. This...

QUOTE (Dan @ May 4 2009, 09:26 AM) Thanks for the input Violet. Personally, I kind of look at life on this earth as a delicate, gold watch. I don't think of God as being up in Heaven waiting for me to sin so that He can inflict the appropriate punishment. More... He set the fine parts of the...

Dan,As I understand it, we don't pay for our sins at all in life. There's nothing like active buddhist karma, we simply live out our fate as envisioned by God. And time to be accountable for our sins comes after death. That is, if we haven't repented we can't go to Heaven and are stuck for a...

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Hello I'm glad that you've found a way out of your confusion.It's hard to say if you come back here, though, as your goal seems to be to put your fervent post into as many places as possible, and that's the only post you have here.But I'd still like to comment in my own way. Trying to help...

Thank you Vickie, and I wish you good luck on your path But what do you think of monasteries? You didn't say it. The problem is that if people who go there have better chances, then why aren't we all encouraged to go there?It seems strange to me that there are people who live normal lives and...

I couldn't ever understand the following:There are us, we need to stop sinning, otherwise we'll die. We repent, and we expect to avoid the lake of fire.But there are some of us who abandon worldly life and go to monasteries. They pray for hours, they work harder than us at getting rid of sinful...

Creating a hi post from a new member,I'm interested in getting to understand Christianity better since my recent discovery that I actually thought very wrong things about it all my life I don't know why, but I completely misinterpreted the "goal" of this religion and was blissfully unaware.Not...