I'm just gonna cut straight to the point of all this: can a person be saved even if they're not Christian? (I don't mean if they don't know, because if they don't know then they can't be punished for not knowing. I mean a person, who in my case, has researched this and other religions, has a strange nervous-excited that is not peaceful and is actually more worrying feeling anytime this subject is brought up and is even here as I'm writing this message and is unsure of whether or not it's God talking to them, has broken down crying due to being that worried about this, etc.) Also, I want to acknolwedge that Jesus of Nazareth was a real person, but as similar people such as Muhammad and Buddha/Siddhartha Gautama also exist, this is one of the many reasons I doubt this as much as I do.

If you've seen any of my posts, you'll know I've been debating this for a couple of years now, because quite frankly, I am worried about going to Hell. I strive every day to be a good person (and by good, I mean moral, intelligent, genuinely kind, not hypocritical, just, introspective, treat others as I want to be treated and the best me I can be even if that me is not and will not be perfect) and more than the physical torture of Hell, the main reason I am genuinely terrified of Hell is because of the notion that I have failed this goal of mine. It also means that my friends and family have failed this goal too, and more than I don't want them to go to Hell I don't want them to go to Hell, and I'd happily go to Hell if it meant I could ensure they didn't.

I should probably clarify my beliefs: I'm an agnostic theist and am open to he concept of Christian agnosticism as I am now assuming I can be persuaded through logic and reasoning to do so. As an agnostic theist, I believe in the idea that a something which can be called a god or gods (This doesn't necessarily have to be a deity, just something which exists beyond our reality. It could be a deity, but, it could also be a rock from somewhere outside our reality, for example), but, believe it is nearly impossible to identify the entity. If someone could identify the entity which they call God and confirm its identity, I would absolutely worship it without question as its existence is thus a fact. My belief in the existence of something which we cannot call a god comes from science, as if this being created the universe and everything in it, science is how they did it. For example: God did create all animals, but, did not do so through spontaneous generation, but did so through evolution.

The reason why I've refrained from believing for so long is the fact that I want more proof of certain things than beyond what the Bible offers, and more than that, a physical experience with God through some type of vision or miracle (which He seems to be able to do with little problem in the Bible) to confirm its existence and identity. I don't just want to believe, I want to physically know, study, and understand God to the best of my abilities. If anyone has responded to my previous posts, you'll see the types of proof I'm looking for scattered about in the posts, as well as questions I've had and debates. I want personal experiences, things that I can look at an instantly recognize as God's work at its finest, things like nature, math, and science for example.

Also, there's something that caught my attention: "Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them" or Romans 2:14. There's probably more context to this verse than I know, and if I'm wrong, please correct me. Also, in some modern translations, it's written as this: "Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it." or "Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law." I've interpreted this to mean something: It is possible to be moral without believing/knowing in God.

I have so many questions and worries and doubts. This isn't even mentioning anything about my stance on homosexuality not being a sin, which I'd still say even if I was Christian, but I honestly can't write anymore than this right now because I have too many thoughts in my head at once.

Hi! I recently wrote a poem I titled Soliloquy to an Almighty Eidolon which is based on my personal fears, questions, prayers, and thoughts on God, the Devil, and religious metaphysics as a whole. I’m really curious to see what a religious person’s opinion on such a poem would be, and so, here’s the poem, hope you like it!

I am scared to live; I am scared to die

I am scared to fail; I am scared to try

I avoid the sky for I fear I’ll die

Knowing I'm caught in the gaze of God’s eye

Each day and night; I start to cry

At how often people lie to both you and I

Regarding both Heaven and Hell alike

And the will of that beyond space and time

I wish to drag God’s angels from Heaven

I wish to raise the Devil’s daemons from Hell

And to bring Lady Death from wherever she’d dwell

So that from them, I shall hear of both the well and unwell

But alas, it seems that my prayers to the three

Fall deaf and dead, where only mysteries be

And so, I sit, in my room yet again, once more

Dreadfully awaiting what fate has in store

How often my reveries all seem to be littered,

How often my mind is thoroughly scattered,

And how often my thoughts do rapidly race

Through my now utterly hollow place

The answers I seek, no book can provide

No sacred pastor or friend of mine

For the knowledge I gather is beyond time

Beyond all reason and beyond all rhyme

Somewhere in the cosmos, in this boundless expanse

Lays a being far beyond both you and I

And there, in its eye, all that is and was

All that should be, does be, and will be

All that moves, does not move, and will move,

All that stops, does not stop, and will stop,

All that creates, does not create, and will create,

All that destroys, does not destroy, and will destroy,

All that exists, does not exist, and will exist

All that will cease, does not cease, and will cease

All this and more, in its gaze alone

As it watches calmly from its unknown abode

Its thoughts alone paint stars in the sky

While its dreams bring the world to people far and wide;

Its movements scatter the winds just as far

While its voice gently calls for the rain to fall from afar

Pitter-patter are the lyrics to the ominous dirge

That promises torture to those much like I

But to others, it seems a more cheerful anthem

That promises fortune to those unlike I

However though, a contract, eternally binding, is formed

From the very moment its cryptic notes are heard

To a master, it is, we all must serve;

An eternity that we seem to very much deserve

I wonder why things are in such a way

Only to be sent much further astray

To the depths of madness that some may call holy

But that I find to be wholly unholy

For what kind of god, either one or many

Who feels all things with its ever-feeling hands,

Who sees all things with its ever-seeing eyes,

And who hears all things with its ever-hearing ears;

Cannot seem to answer my most earnest request?

A meeting with it is all that I ask,

Regardless of the shape or form it may take,

So that I may no longer fear what is to be at stake

For some type of sign, from either above or below

Or wherever it is that God calls its abode

For some great sea dividing or some verdant bush burning

So that my stomach may finally cease its churning

But still, I find, there is no hope in sight

As I languish here in my anguish and plight

Thus to you, dear God, I address this soliloquy

In hopes that, one day, you’ll finally hear me.

I am looking for a christian wiki in which people admit LGBTQ is a sin and at least some people are not scared of this modern world.

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A bit of forewarning: this post is going to take a bit to read, so grab some popcorn, you’ll be here for awhile. Also, everything in here is my personal belief, and isn’t fact. Everyone’s entitled to their own beliefs, and I’m not here to force anything on you, I’m just sharing my thoughts and questions. Also, these questions all assume that the god from Christianity is real unless they’re intentionally general. For example: “Is a human more powerful than a god, since assuming a god does not exist, humans would have invented the concept of ‘god’ in the first place?”

Now without further ado, let’s start. I’m an agnostic theist, and if you son’s know what that means, it means that while I believe in the idea of some type of higher power, I’m not necessarily going to try to identify it. The reason for this is that to me, trying to identify with 100% verity a being capable of creating concepts that shatter our minds such as time and space is impossible. This, however, does not mean that I don’t want to learn about the higher being, assuming that there is one. As a matter of fact, the reason why I believe in the exist of one at all is due to science and mythology, and through the course of my learning about the world and other stuff, I’ve learned a lot of things.

For example, mythology and Christianity share a lot of overlap, and I believe that to a certain extent, many people saw the same things, but overtime, stories just became changed as details were lost and modified through the passage of time. The best example I can think of is the story of Manu and Matsyu from Hinduism, which follows the exact plot of Noah and the ark, with the only major difference that instead of animals, Manu is asked by Matsyu to collect all of the grains in the world. As for the science bit, I have also realized that denying science, as well as saying that “everything is a massive coincidence,” are both equally wrong; as evolution, the quantum realm, time, space, energy, and all of this other stuff is too intricate to just be random.

Perhaps the most important thing I’ve realized though, is that whatever this main thing is, it wants two things: to be found, and to be learned about. I’ve never once had a premonition or anything like that, and most of all of this is just my thoughts, but I think that there are clues throughout nature and history that hint to the existence of more, and always have. The what and the why though, are things I don’t ever expect to be able to truly understand, but despite this, I still want to learn and ask as much as I can. That’s why I want to present some of my personal questions to you about Christianity, because being realistic, this religion probably has the biggest chance of being real.

1. The afterlife

Let’s start off with the fun part first and get right into question #1.

• If a person can choose which afterlife they get into, what if they neither want to go to Hell nor Heaven?

I ask this question because I personally don’t want either. I don’t want to go to Hell for the obvious part of not wanting to be tortured for eternity, so I’ll talk more about why I don’t want to go to Heaven. To me, Heaven has always been described as this place of utmost good, where everything is perfect and you can life for eternity. Am I the only one who finds this to be boring? This mainly stems from my animosity towards the concept of immortality, as in my eyes, living for eternity robs life of meaning. I say this because to me, the existence of death cutting everything short is the fuel to live, as it reminds me that I don’t have as much time to experience life, and should do as much as possible in the short time I have. Immortality in any way removes that, as without death, there is no time limit, you can do whatever whenever.

Another problem I have with Heaven is that everything is good. As much as people may disagree with the following statement, I honestly think that evil is necessary in order to make good, well, good. To explain to you what I mean, let’s give the example of a baby receiving candy versus being stolen. When the baby is given candy, it’s good, because it makes the baby happy and is a kind thing to do, and on the flip side, taking the candy is bad because it takes away the baby’s happiness. Now, what happens if we remove the stealing? Can you still call the action “good?” I don’t know how you could, as there’s no longer anything to differentiate the two, and thus “good” loses its value, it just becomes something that happens. The same can be said about Hell: if all the evils are put together, are they truly “evil,” or is it just the way they exist? Essentially, since there is neither to counter the other, the other loses value because there is nothing to balance it out.

• Do people truly deserve eternal damnation simply because they don’t believe in Christianity?

I’m by no means the utmost virtue of good, and I’ve made mistakes I’m nor proud of. Nobody has. As Christians, you all know this, and I’m not saying you don’t. What I am saying, however, is whether or not a person deserves to suffer for eternity just because they don’t repent to God for those mistakes. To be fair, I’m not saying certain people should go unpunished for crimes, and while I am overall against the idea of Hell, I’m not going to lie and say that I wouldn’t be happy knowing a murderer wasn’t getting what they had coming to them in life. I do, however, think it’s a bit unfair to group average people who made average mistakes in with them and the other scums of the world simply because they don’t believe in Christianity. The main reason I think it’s unfair is because I renders salvation nigh impossible because it segregates it to only a small group of people, even if these people don’t necessarily deserve it.

2. Him

Whichever name you want to use, these are questions about the man himself.

• Why is God, in the Bible, somewhat depicted as selfish?

From an outsider’s perspective, it seems that God in the Bible is somewhat selfish. Now, I understand that by saying this, I’m committing the unforgivable sin of “blasphemy against the Spirit,” but that honestly goes to further my question. I honestly have always found it hard to understand that above genocide, enslavement, rape, torture, and all these other things, the singular thing that God chooses not to forgive is, and pardon me for being crude here, having his ego hurt. Furthermore, returning to an old point, the sole way to get into Heaven is to believe in Him fully. If the entirety of one’s life must revolve around someone’s self, is that not the epitome of selfishness?

Another thing I want to mention is something that happened to me. I once asked a pastor the following question: “If a sin is committed in the name of God, will God excuse it?” I then brought up the example of people who were converted to Christianity through war, which combines several sins (including wrath) into one massive sin, and he said yes. I find this to be a bit hypocritical.

I plan to add more questions, but at the time of writing, it’s 12:49 AM where I am and I’m sleepy. Thanks for reading this far and let me know your answers and replies in the comments!

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Green: Peacefully spread/willingly converted

Yellow-Green: Mostly spread peacefully, although some little conflict between European pagans and the converted Christians

Yellow: Spread through war or spread peacefully

Red: Spread through war

Ive been a cristian all my life and always felt weird cuz kids were making fun of me for it-so i wanna meet some new people who are into the same things :>

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I’m Katie, I’m a young woman of god, and joining to connect with fellow Christians. 💕

So i struggled with sin alot but then one day i decided to repent after repenting i felt a tingle has jesus forgiven me

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