Let me first say what I think your comment tells about your belief or lack thereof. You seem to have a wrong view on Christianity. I have never heard someone getting punished for not praying/reading the Bible/attending church etc...If it was the case I would be punished a lot then, and so will the rest of humanity.
I see you are from France. American Christians (both C and P) seem to have a problem with non-attendees. It's almost like a curse hanging over your head (literally, in a church-going family and speculatively in a non...we get it from our "friends").
It really is weird to not be able to answer the question "what church do you go to?" Because it was asked so often when I was a kid.
And it is even weirder to go to a church and then hear all kinds of shite flinging from other "Christians."
You should read the New Testament (it's quite a short read but a lot to ponder about) to have a better understanding of who Jesus was and what he said, because in the end He is the ultimate reference on God the Father. Jesus did perform miracles, like walking on water. Maybe you can call on a physical coincidence, but you can't blame people to call it a miracle since obviously walking on water is physically impossible, as far as we know
Well..I have read the NT. I can't say that Jesus did anything. I heard some guys liked what he said. I can't say that anyone who knew him recorded anything accurately. The miracles are all second hand and, frankly speaking, my life is, well, human, and full of comedies and tragedies and soap-operatic dramas and bottom of the barrel horrors and full of mothers who love me and friends who betray me and women who love me and brothers who will speak well of me and get my message out even after they die.
It's not like the re-uniting of my parents, but at least God answered my prayers, and he must have worked my mother's heart out (she's the one that left) or something like that, I don't know. But then it's not fundamental to me whether or not it's a miracle. The greatest miracle to me was the change of my heart.
I don't deny your change of heart. But how do you know it was the God of the Bible?
Especially when you say this:
The God from the Bible doesn't necessarily rewards or punish, this would be a faith based on works, which Christianity is not.
And then you say this:
He will punish those who have disobeyed his commands and who will persist disobeying, and who will not acknowledge him as the Creator God.
What commands are people disobeying? Just the one...to have faith? Who are you to say? Can you judge?
A lot of people know that God exist, but don't want to worship Him, instead they prefer Lucifer (who is according to the Bible the ruler of this world).
How do you know the difference?
Are there "works/actions" which disqualify people from salvation?
"You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong--to his own satisfaction. You are anarchists in the realm of thought. And you are mad cosmos-makers. Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live, and your thinking has no place in the real world except in so far as it is phenomena of mental aberration." -
The Iron Heel by Jack London
"Hazards exist that are not marked" - some bar in Chelsea
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