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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] "Well, considering that it leaves out a bunch of people who would otherwise deserve to be there..." Again, NO ONE deserves to go to heaven. We're allowed because God has forgiven us. If someone does something to you and is never sorry they did it, are you going to assume that they're still a good person and won't do it again? "What you're saying is that someone could be the most moral person in the world, could have done great things and benefited humanity throughout his/her life, but who dies without being "Christianized" (asking and believeing etc.), is, essentially, worse than the serial killer who "finds God" in jail, and repents as they're taking him to the chair." There is no "better" or "worse". Compaired to God, we're all dirt. No one is perfect. No matter how good you are, you'll still sin sometime. Again, if someone, say, lies to you once and is never really sorry that they did, you'd never assume that they're not going to lie to you again. God will do whatever it takes to get you to Him, but you still have to take one step on your own. Just one. He'll forgive you, no matter what you've done, but first you have to ask. "If you really aren't deserving, but you believe you'll be saved anyway... isn't that unparallelled egotism?" No. It would be unparallelled egotism if I believed that only Christians deserved to go to Heaven. We don't deserve it, either. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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