This is a question that comes up frequently with me, while I'm talking to Christians and other religious followers from around the world. We can go on and on, with questions and answers about why I choose not to believe in most organized religions and they can go on and on trying to convince me, why I should join them, but it's a waste of time for both of us.
Muslims and Christians are always trying to convert nonbelievers to their faith. Most of the time it's out of fear, these people care about you and have a genuine interest in your afterlife. If they can convert you to believe in their religion, they have just saved someone from burning and suffering, in the afterlife.
Now get this, if you're a Christian and you have been faithful, honest, pure at heart and have worshiped God on a regular basis, you just might get to go to heaven. If there is a room of course, only 144,000 people who have lived on the entire planet get to go to heaven. I'm sure that there are still plenty of room in heaven though for you. Maybe not your entire family or all of your Christian friends, but there's probably enough room for one more person. If there are 8 billion people on the planet today, that would be one out of every 55,000 people who are alive today, I didn't add in, all the people who have ever lived, throughout our history. That would probably be about one in 100,000 people.
Most Christians don't want to be bothered by numbers like these anyway and can often come up with excuses like, there's going to be more than 144,000 people in heaven, that's not what it really means, when you read the book of revelations or how about this one, the Bible tells me, that if I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I will never die or thirst again. This sounds pretty good to most people.
Well now for the bad news for those who are non-believing Christians. Revelation 21:8 says "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
The un-beleiving, non-followers of Christianity are going to be put in the same category as murderers, sexually immoral, people who practice magic arts, liars and idolaters. Now I want you to think about this for a second, if I knew someone who was more giving, loving, compassionate and they're only sin in life was that they stole an apple from the store once and has never had an evil thought in their entire life, but chooses not to believe in Christianity, because of the contradictions within the Bible.
Does this make sense? Well it does to most Christians, and as a matter of fact it makes sense to other religions throughout the world. I'll tell you one person that it doesn't make sense to, ME.
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