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Why don't the Christians save all the morally good Non-believers?

Matthew 16:19

"I will give you the keys to the kingdom from heaven. Whatever you prohibit on earth will have been prohibited in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will have been permitted in heaven."

This pretty much means that Christians have the right to rewrite any parts of the bible, without limitation. So why not change the laws governing which people get into heaven.

Or do you want to see people burn merely for non-belief?

Update:

Richard the Lion, the verse I quoted stated explicitly that humanity can dictate the laws that govern Heaven and Earth.

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  • 8 years ago

    Are you an aspiering sorcerer that wants to change God's inflawable word? We don't know which parts were dictated by God and which weren't (though "common" sense would tell us that), so we really *can't* do that, not if we want to stay in mainstream religion. I've been saying for years that the Bible needs to be edited, but no one wants to help me (the religious folk say to leave it alone and the athiests say to just throw it out). It appears that the only way to get that editing done is to be branded as a heretic (Jesus was a heretic). You'd have to start a new religion outside of fundamentalism. I would write it myself, but I had a massive stroke back in '98 where I lost 68% of my Cerebellum, 38% of my Mid-brain and 45% of my Brain-stem according to news reports, as a result my hand-writing is pretty slow and I now have something like Dyslexia, it would take me forever to do such a work. It happened after the dawn of the internet (I remember looking-up porn on my Mom's dial-up just before my stroke), but apparently it occured before news and medical agencies put everything on the web. I was in Florida on vacation at the time and admitted to Telehassie(sp?) Regional Memorial Hospital (where I went into a coma) later transferred to Syracuse University Hospital in central New York while still in a coma. After I think six months I came out of that coma, but was largely unaware of myself (the lights were on but nobody was home, the engine was ideling) untill 2000 or 2001. My short-term memory is pretty shot, but if something is re=enforced enough it some-how gets imprinted into my long-term memory, that's a different part of the brain (that was pointed out in the movie "50 First Dates" starring Adam Sandler). I still can't walk. So it'd be difficult (to say the least) for me to pen such a book now, but that doesn't mean you can't. Be prepared to be ostracized by *almost* everyone else though.

  • 8 years ago

    Those words don't apply to Christians in general, they were spoken to St Peter, and apply only to the Popes, who are successors to St Peter. Catholics understand them to mean that the Pope has authority to place obligations and to lift obligations and to make binding declarations where there is a matter of dispute. They don't give the Pope the authority to completely contradict an established part of God's law.

    But the Catholic church, unlike the majority of Protestants, does hold out some hope for the virtuous non-believers. It teaches that where someone was in blameless ignorance of the Christian faith, and did not recieve baptism, God may save them through some extraordinary act of grace (extraordinary, in the context, means 'outside of the ordinary').

    The following two quotes are from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (link below)

    "Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.

    "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."

    http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a9p3.htm

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    That has nothing to do with Christians who can even save themselves let alone other people. CHRISTIANS didn't write the scriptures the word is only mentioned twice in the whole bible and even then as an insult.

  • 8 years ago

    I am a Christian but God told me not to meddle and try to change anyone. Leave them alone because they have their deal with Him and He does not want me sticking my nose in His business. It must be because I don't really know enough to be of any real help when it comes to suggesting or guiding other people in or out of or around in their own space. Seems God does not want me getting in their way between them and Him. Probably because I am a pretty heavy backslider myself. it would be like the blind leading the blind.

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  • 8 years ago

    christians do not save people god does

    we tell people how to be saved

    Mark 16:15-16

    King James Version (KJV)

    15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

    16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

    no that verse you used does not say we can rewrite the words of god

  • 8 years ago

    What you quoted is what Jesus said to Peter when he made Peter the first Pope.

  • 8 years ago

    Indifference or ambivalence. Most of them aren't forcing you to believe at the edge of a sword these days like they did during the Dark Ages. Perhaps they just don't care as much as they used to about converting people to their religious cult.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    You are quite right. As I understand it they save fallen women. I should like them to save one for me.

  • 8 years ago

    It is NOT up to us......God said believe in Him.......what about that do you NOT understand?

  • 8 years ago

    If one is morally good then one doesn't need saving.

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