How do you tell a friend . . .

Do you ever struggle with telling a friend that they are going to hell? Maybe they're an atheist or maybe they just go to the First Southern Baptist Church instead of the Second Southern Baptist Church.

How do you tell them without losing their friendship? Do you just lie and tell them, "Yes, you are going to heaven," when they ask you, even when you know in your heart of hearts that you're lying? You are one of the select few in history to know the real god, and as his representative aren't you obliged to always speak the truth?

Originally posted by telerion
Do you ever struggle with telling a friend that they are going to hell? Maybe they're an atheist or maybe they just go to the First Southern Baptist Church instead of the Second Southern Baptist Church.

How do you tell them without losing their friendship? Do you just lie and tell them, "Yes, you are going to heaven," when they ask you, even when ...[text shortened]... y to know the real god, and as his representative aren't you obliged to always speak the truth?

Originally posted by telerion
Do you ever struggle with telling a friend that they are going to hell? Maybe they're an atheist or maybe they just go to the First Southern Baptist Church instead of the Second Southern Baptist Church.

How do you tell them without losing their friendship? Do you just lie and tell them, "Yes, you are going to heaven," when they ask you, even when ...[text shortened]... y to know the real god, and as his representative aren't you obliged to always speak the truth?

Originally posted by telerion
Do you ever struggle with telling a friend that they are going to hell? Maybe they're an atheist or maybe they just go to the First Southern Baptist Church instead of the Second Southern Baptist Church.

How do you tell them without ...[text shortened]... his representative aren't you obliged to always speak the truth?

Originally posted by Phlabibit
This is a lot like bowling.

You see... Someone might be having a great game going, but you start to notice they are not keeping their sliding foot straight, or perhaps there shoulders are not staying level. You might notice the ball hits heavier each time, but you hope they can get through it.

If you decide to say something, you will probably break ...[text shortened]... as I do, and I will admit there are others that bowl much better than I ever will.

Mr. 700

In my grade school days, a friend asked me point-blank, "Do you [Christians] think we [Jews] go to Hell?"

It was a really uncomfortable moment for me, but I felt I had to tell the truth as I saw it then: "Well, um, the Bible does say that the only way to the Father is through his son."

My friend was not a happy camper over that answer.

Larry King (of Jewish ancestry) had an evangelical preacher as a guest a few years back. I am 90 percent sure it was Jim Bakker. King asked the guest what happened to the souls of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis in concentration camps. The guest paused for a couple of seconds, and then said, "I think they went straight to heaven."

No doubt it was the answer King wanted to hear. But strictly speaking, it has no New Testament basis as far as I can tell.

Originally posted by Phlabibit
This is a lot like bowling.

You see... Someone might be having a great game going, but you start to notice they are not keeping their sliding foot straight, or perhaps there shoulders are not staying level. You might notice the ball hits heavier each time, but you hope they can get through it.

If you decide to say something, you will probably break ...[text shortened]... as I do, and I will admit there are others that bowl much better than I ever will.

Mr. 700

Originally posted by Paul Dirac
King asked the guest what happened to the souls of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis in concentration camps. The guest paused for a couple of seconds, and then said, "I think they went straight to heaven."

No doubt it was the answer King wanted to hear. But strictly speaking, it has no New Testament basis as far as I can tell.

Originally posted by Nemesio
How does one (Christian) explain this?

As far as I know, the Roman Catholics are the only one with a dogmatic
statement on this sort of 'exception salvation.' I discussed it with
Lucifershammer (who is RC, I believe) some months ba ...[text shortened]... hands of the Nazis went to
hell along with the Nazis?

Nemesio

Originally posted by Paul Dirac
In my grade school days, a friend asked me point-blank, "Do you [Christians] think we [Jews] go to Hell?"

It was a really uncomfortable moment for me, but I felt I had to tell the truth as I saw it then: "Well, um, the Bible does say that the only way to the Father is through his son."

My friend was not a happy camper over that answer.

Larry ...[text shortened]... King wanted to hear. But strictly speaking, it has no New Testament basis as far as I can tell.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Nemesio: "As far as I know, the Roman Catholics are the only one with a dogmatic
statement on this sort of 'exception salvation.'


Find it and show it , Mr Innuendo.

Originally posted by vistesd
[b]But strictly speaking, it has no New Testament basis as far as I can tell.

Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, "Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob."

[/b]

Originally posted by Nemesio
Naturally, vistesd, the Cult of Literalism necessarily 'interprets' the word
'Israel' not to mean the physical state of Israel nor its people (the Jews),
but a metaphorical 'New Israel' comprising 'True' Christians.

Otherwise, there would be a contradiction in the Bible (OH NO!).

Nemesio

Originally posted by vistesd
Yeah, I know. That was a "quick & dirty" citation. As you know from some of my other posts, I think a much more exhaustive case can be made from the NT, but I'm too tired to make it just now. And there are counter-texts to argue from. Besides, I don't think the Jews (including my Jewish ancestors) need us to tell them that they're saved.

Originally posted by thesonofsaul
Or not saved, as the case may be.