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Disappointed Christians say God is delaying the Rapture until Epstein Files are released
(www.dailystar.co.uk)
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Although everything is like that. Some people have different political, scientific, philosophical theories about a load of things. It's not that big of a deal.
Nobody thinks you're going to hell for having a new idea about quantum gravity. Nobody has set up car bombs over whether or not plucked chickens are human. Political differences do have a very different history with violence, of course.
But when there is a large number of people who are happy to make me feel profoundly wrong for not accepting their deity, or thinking the wrong day is the day God wants us to rest, or who think plenary indulgences are or aren't a good idea, or if Jesus abolished or fulfilled the old law, or if God thinks we should kill all trans people... we have hit a different territory.
These are not the same thing, and sometimes it is a VERY big deal. Literally life and death.
Nobody is going to hell for believing in Calvinism/Arminianism. Nobody is going to hell for believing in Memorialism or Real Presence. You go to hell for your sin.
These aren't necessarily salvation issues, although some beliefs may be signs of someone being unsaved (for example thinking they can buy their way into heaven or wanting to kill trans people- both show examples of someone who hasn't been regenerated by the Holy Spirit)
Well, Ortodox Cristians for example, do as a matter of fact, believe you go to hell for believing in heretic shit.
And this is my point - it's not about what any one person on Lemmy thinks is what gets you to hell, it's just what some folks with certain views end up thinking, and sometimes yelling.
Most of those things aren't heresies.