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I naturally assume that all humans are evil and I believe that justly so. All humans have the evil and capability in their hearts to commit the greatest atrocities, it is only a matter of the environment we're raised in and what our personal experiences are. No matter what your personality is, depending on certain conditions, you could be Mother Theresa or Adolf Hitler. I believe that from birth, such evil is inside of us.

However, my issue is this: God's forgiveness must have a limit. We all are evil, we all sin, but how far can you go before God clips you away and casts you into the fire? There is no difference between sins. Murderer, rapist, fornicator or theif, you could go to hell for all of it. I question this daily. It is impossible to live sin-free, and time after time, you sin over and over again...how can you not believe you are not going to hell? I mean if you think about it, God doesn't HAVE to take us all. He could take fourteen of us. There could be people all across the world much better than anyone of us, who sin rarely, who try harder than us. Imagine that. We've loosened our standards so much that we bend the Bible and the word of God so it is lenient to OUR life-style and beliefs. So many people refuse this as well... It draws the line between a Good Christian and those who are just convicted and stubborn. If God told you that you were going to hell, what would you say? Would you try and argue? What if he showed you all those people so much better than you are? God's word is as written, and requires no speculation. God asks you to believe EVERYTHING about him and love him regardless of any conditions in your life.

So what would you do, if you spent your entirely life, believing as you do, only to find out, in the end, you were wrong, and all that you did wasn't enough? Would you trust in God's judgement to let you burn for an enternity? Feeling only the pain of death, but never dying... God's mercy is great, and his love is great, but what if all you're doing is not enough, and because of years of bending his worlds to our life-style now a days, you're going to hell for it?

I think this is about it...

And if you are planning on coming up for some clever way for insulting me or trying to aggravate me, you'll be sadly disappointed. I don't actually care about what you are saying, I am only asking for your opinion and observing it but, if you want to veil your ignorance and arrogance behind your own self-righteuous insult, go ahead and make a fool of yourself child. If your reply actually contains intellectual content, I will take it to heart and sincerely thank you for it. I'll truly appreciate such unprompted kindness.

Oh, and by the way, I'm a Christian as I have been all my life. However, I've used Buddhism in my life as a way to think upon and study God's word in a calm, meditative standing. I worship God and Jesus only, not Buddha, not Siddhartha Gautama. He was a scholar and philospher, nothing more. God and Jesus are my only lord and saviour.

The issue is we are to bend to His will, not our own.

How can we put a limit on the unfathomable, unalterable, unending, uncreated glory, power and person of God?

The point of the cross is that we aren't responsible for our salvation. We cannot ever EVER be good enough to be saved by our own merit, by our own actions. Jesus died FOR US, that we might be saved. He is "the way, the truth, and the life", the fulfillment of the law -- which is love. Perfect love.

Think of it this way: You are a peasant, wearing tattered, filthy rags, stained by all the grossest things you can imagine. You reek. I mean, really, you smell bad. Along comes this guy you don't even know, and he is super clean, super shiny, and his clothes are all super new. Super. He walks over to you and starts taking off his clothes, then holds them out to you -- no he begins to put them on you. All of a sudden, you are perfectly clean. This doesn't mean that anything you have done, or will do, will change, but it means that God sees you as he sees Jesus. Clean. (mind you, this is NOT the best version of this analogy you could be getting, and it is very vague).

This does not mean that we won't die, we are sinners by nature, we will sin. It is our responsibility, however, in recognition of the fact that Jesus died for us, to repent and love, even though we are sinners.
There is no limit to God's forgiveness -- He wants us to love him, because he love us. He wants us to be with him. If we absolutely refuse to recognize him, or if we do acknowledge him but do not act accordingly, then we are "destined" for hell.

Now, that is a WAY shortened, vague version of what should be said to you, but I encourage you to go talk to a preacher about it. Please.

Although perhaps a bit excessive the picture does drive the point the poster was trying to make

and although to say all humans are evil may be a stretch it seems we all must wrestle with our inner demons and our own capacity to do "wrong"

and it is this constant inner struggle however slight that frightens me most

are you sure God has no limits

once God takes on any sort of definiton God then takes on limitation
this is partly due to our understanding of what is by what is not
artificial or self-imposed
limits are limits

also
isn't there some rules about how God and sin don't mix

That picture is awesome.