Try using that logic when you stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
What you seem to be misunderstanding is that it is the same logic that you claim to have used, we just came to different conclusions.
God has hung your eternal salvation on a cross 2000 years ago.
I was not there so I must trust those who were there that they documented everything as it went down. Yet the scriptures don't agree on many accounts and the translations have changed many of the original texts, actually, the original texts don't exist.
So, I must read and interpret the texts that have been left behind. That is my only way to God. By reading 2000 year old scriptures. God has hung my salvation on my ability to interpret these old texts, and, if I get it wrong, I suffer for eternity.
But interpretating the full spiritual message of God's love letter Bible is reserved for His children who have been born into His family.
Ok, now you are not making sense. If it is reserved for His children then a non-believer can NEVER become a believer because he will never interpret it right. There are people who have never read the Bible but would like to become believers. However, if they pick up the Bible to read it they can't interpret it properly because they are not part of the club yet, but, they can't become part of the club until they read the Bible and see if it is the true word of God or just another one of the many mythological stories we have.
Your almost say that you have to believe God exists first, which is fine, but why does it have to be the God of the Christians? Thats where the Bible would steps in to further explain things, right? But there's a problem, you can't read it properly until you believe it whole heartedly. This is circular bullshit.
At least admit that you belive what is written in the Bible, not because you have read it and determined it to be true, but simply because you believe in the Christian God and would accept anything that the Bible says regardless of how false it may be.
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