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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6061737" data-attributes="member: 24302">I&#039;ll go further than that.&nbsp; Mentioned this before.&nbsp; I was taught growing up that not only would non Christians end up in Hell but that most that claimed Christianity weren&#039;t true Christians and would lose their souls.&nbsp; That even many in the one true church, the Church of Christ, would fail to reach heaven.Something occurred to me at the start of the pandemic.&nbsp; Was reading about the previous really big pandemic, the Spanish Flu, that killed at least 50 million people in 1918 thereabouts.&nbsp; The world&#039;s population was 1.5 billion then.&nbsp; In just over 100 years we now stand at over 8 billion people.&nbsp; There are literally more people alive today than had lived and died throughout history.&nbsp; We consider God to be omniscient, all knowing.&nbsp; God would&#039;ve known so many would soon be alive that by our teaching would never make it Heaven.&nbsp; Why not have Jesus come back, have the Day of Judgement, before so many lost souls would come into the world?&nbsp; Sending most, almost all, to Hell with no chance of eternity in Heaven is not the work of a just God.&nbsp; There are certainly aspects of Church of Christ teaching that I believe.&nbsp; And doctrines taught by many denominations that I don&#039;t think jibe with the Bible.&nbsp; At this point I don&#039;t know what to believe.&nbsp; I certainly think the Earth is much older than fundamentalist Christians believe it is.&nbsp; I wonder about the true nature of God.&nbsp; I certainly don&#039;t want to be an influence on anyone&#039;s faith in a negative way.&nbsp; But I have questions.&nbsp; Questions that would&#039;ve gotten me killed in previous centuries.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 6061737, member: 24302"] I'll go further than that. Mentioned this before. I was taught growing up that not only would non Christians end up in Hell but that most that claimed Christianity weren't true Christians and would lose their souls. That even many in the one true church, the Church of Christ, would fail to reach heaven. Something occurred to me at the start of the pandemic. Was reading about the previous really big pandemic, the Spanish Flu, that killed at least 50 million people in 1918 thereabouts. The world's population was 1.5 billion then. In just over 100 years we now stand at over 8 billion people. There are literally more people alive today than had lived and died throughout history. We consider God to be omniscient, all knowing. God would've known so many would soon be alive that by our teaching would never make it Heaven. Why not have Jesus come back, have the Day of Judgement, before so many lost souls would come into the world? Sending most, almost all, to Hell with no chance of eternity in Heaven is not the work of a just God. There are certainly aspects of Church of Christ teaching that I believe. And doctrines taught by many denominations that I don't think jibe with the Bible. At this point I don't know what to believe. I certainly think the Earth is much older than fundamentalist Christians believe it is. I wonder about the true nature of God. I certainly don't want to be an influence on anyone's faith in a negative way. But I have questions. Questions that would've gotten me killed in previous centuries. [/QUOTE]

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