I'll bet it's not in the book of fiction anywhere
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.God allegedly "blesses the righteous and confounds the wicked".
"Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the realm of the dead, for evil finds lodging among them. As for me, I call to God, and the LORD saves me." (Ps 55:15-16). If that's not a statement that a Good Person is unambiguously protected and the earth doesn't open up and swallow everyone else, I don't know what is.
This lavish and very specific and repeated claim throughout scripture that "those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13) was one of the big sources of cognitive dissonance for me. I called upon the name of the Lord and was NOT saved, repeatedly, from many things, not least the mental illness of my first wife and the death of my 2nd wife. Worse, of course was that the people I loved were not saved. This kind of thing gets Really Old beyond a certain point.
That was a proximal motivation to question the veracity of scripture, but of course once I got past that, I found far better reasons to reject it all as hogwash.
mordant
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Dec 7, 2018
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According to Catholic doctrine only human souls go to heaven, thus any non humans, even if able to understand the book of bibly and find it to their liking (intelligent and bibly believer is an oxymoron) can never go to heaven
Beowulfsfriend
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Dec 6, 2018
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Makes me wonder, how or if parents tell their children that tha family dog or cat will not go to heaven when it dies.
From which we can deduce that the bible/catholic doctrine was not written by a dog
@LenHazell53 maybe a dyslexic dog
@RobertMartin When my kids were growing up we used the story of The Rainbow Bridge. Yes, my kids were raised in the church, they are now adults. Two are atheists, one is flying under the radar for the time being.
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