This was why, as a kid, I couldn't sign on to my Christian upbringing -- if I didn't believe the creeds it was like nothing else mattered. I could be the best person ever (not that I am, but just saying), and if I didn't believe certain things I was going to hell. I could not reconcile that view with a just God.
"I could not reconcile that view with a just God."
As a Christian, despite my having been taught Jesus is the one way to salvation, I have trouble reconciling that too. Then again, within Christianity -- mostly between different sects -- we have the salvation-though-faith vs salvation-through-works argument, suggesting that even if the language used doesn't quite exhibit it, the priority of orthopraxy exists in some denominations.
(I had big problems with the doctrine / concept of "original sin" as well, but I settled on a possibly-heretical interpretation of that that I'm comfortable with.)
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"I could not reconcile that view with a just God."
As a Christian, despite my having been taught Jesus is the one way to salvation, I have trouble reconciling that too. Then again, within Christianity -- mostly between different sects -- we have the salvation-though-faith vs salvation-through-works argument, suggesting that even if the language used doesn't quite exhibit it, the priority of orthopraxy exists in some denominations.
(I had big problems with the doctrine / concept of "original sin" as well, but I settled on a possibly-heretical interpretation of that that I'm comfortable with.)