Posted by Lou Pilder on October 3, 2015, at 18:57:12
In reply to How does one accept Jesus as Christ - Ask a priest » Lou Pilder, posted by SLS on October 3, 2015, at 17:06:32
> > > Okay, then.
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> > > Let us be clear and not jump to conclusions.
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> > > Lou: Can one reach the paradise that you speak of by accepting Jesus as the Christ, Lord and Savior?
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> > how does one accept Jesus as Christ
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> That's not my problem.
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> Go see Christian clergy if you would like that question answered.
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> Okay. Let's try again. Maybe we can get you to answer a yes-or-no question without obfuscation.
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> Yes or No:
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> Can one reach Paradise through the path offered by Christianity?
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> h
> - ScottScott,
There is not one path but many that Christiandom offers. This is what causes the divisions in Christiandom. The Roman Catholic path diverts from the reformed groups and then there are subsets of divisions in those groups. The paths are divers due to disagreements as to what words mean, such as atonement, sanctification, righteousness, justification, grace, faith and many others. We could have limited atonement, universal atonement, atonement by baptism, atonement by repentance, sacraments, and others. A lot of the disagreements involve the period of the second temple period between 100 BCE and 70 CE and then the next 40 years or so.
Now each group contends that they have the truth concerning such, so that one could be right and all the others wrong, or they could all be wrong or there could be some agreement between some of the divisions in Christiandom.
Christandom's Jesus' could be different in various divisions. So your question as to if one can reach Paradise through the path offered by Christianity would depend on which path is being considered by what division as to which Jesus is being presented.
Lou
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