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In order to accept the love offered to us by Christ, it is in no way necessary to accept all of the contradictory dogma that the various chuches have invented over the last twenty centuries. That would be impossible, as you have noted in your article. Remember that the Bible is an anthology assembled and fixed around the third century. Its various authors, I'm sure, had no idea that people would still be reading them and arguing about them two millenia later. And there are, indeed, passages that are difficult, not to say impossible, to reconcile because, I suppose,the authors came with varying backgrounds. I conclude from that fact that these disharmonies don't matter. For my salvation I need only do what the thief on the cross did. He confessed his sins and asked that Christ save him, nothing else did he do. And Christ promised him to do exactly that.

-DM-

Thank you for your feedback regarding <a href="http://www.secweb.org/asset.asp?AssetID=192" target="_blank">Christian Salvation?</a> by Thomas Doubting.

Keep in mind that this article pertains to Christian salvation and specifically to the requirements for salvation according to Christian doctrine. The article does NOT pertain to what is necessary in order to accept the love which is allegedly offered to us by Jesus. The point of the article is that with regard to salvation . . .
With regard to the subject of your feedback, namely the accepting of the love allegedly offered to us by Jesus (who was not, so far as I am concerned, the Christ), my personal opinions follow.
1) If we take into consideration the biblical "disharmonies" as to what Jesus is alleged to have said and done, it can be seen that he not only offered love but that he also offered indifference and even hate, depending on the circumstances.
2) Disharmonies do matter. They matter immensely when it comes to something as important as "salvation."
3) Given the disharmonies in the Bible, there is no reasonable means by which to determine what should be believed in what the Bible purports to tell us about what Jesus is alleged to have said and done.
4) A perfect and omnipotent "God" could have, should have, and would necessarily have done a better job of it were the Bible his "Word."
5) A perfect and omnipotent "God" could have, should have, and would necessarily have done a better job of it were "He" concerned with our "salvation." Anything less than a clear explanation of what is required would be morally reprehensible.

--Don--