Then what determines if people go to hell? "If they've been exposed to the knowledge of God and reject it?" Well, despite that contradicting the bible (which in turn contradicts itself....)** Well, if that is your argument, *how exposed*? If a person simply hears, "God is great." once, and that's it, and don't believe? What if someone talks to them for 2 minutes? Half an hours? A week? A year? What about people who have enough of a learning difficulty that they have difficulty comprehending things, but can comprehend to some extent? Are they hellbound if they don't accept? In short, where is the line? And where in the bible to they give this sort of exception to the rule? Or are you just assuming it because God is loving? Read Deuteronomy to learn how God is described. Described as a devouring flame, an angry god. A God who whole-heartedly endoses pillage, a God who says to show no mercy and to kill everyone that is encountered (which would, btw, include women and children). I could go on for a long, long time...
**Works alone, Faith with works, Faith alone?
James 2:20-22
Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by the works.
James 2:24
See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone
James 2:26
For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Eph 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast.
Rom 3:28
A man is justified by faith without works.
Jam 2:17
Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead
Jam 2:24
"A man is justified by works and not by faith only
Rom 4:2
"For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory?
Acts 16:30-31
"Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
(I could go on for a long time...)
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