Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
My first response to this is simple

If organised religion through bibles and churches and missionaries......to be a Christian is to be a missionary my mother always said ......

Cannot get through to those that need to be given the chance to accept your God.....then if God is all powerful then he should let these people .....billions of them .... into his kingdom

Everything regarding God and religion fails basic tests every time ....and if it fails holy people have another story or saying or reading ......or excuse
Sludge - I don't think there is anything more I can say to you to try to answer your questions. At the end of the day it's all about faith, a single step of faith. I wasn't born a Christian. I didn't become one until my late 30's having been a skeptic from my teenage years on. All I know is now I would not go back to my old way of life, I have a new life in Christ. It's not a life of ease, far from it, as Jesus has warned: "I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation". (John 16:33). I have that peace but obviously being human I am clinging on by my fingertips sometimes!

Jesus has shown the way but you and the rest of mankind are free to do what you want, believe what you want, so let's leave it there eh. Maybe one day there will be that light-bulb moment for you too - I pray there will be.