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Q: Mormon asks: I have never been baptized before... but am getting baptized soon. My boyfriend and I have gone back and forth discussing this. He says if you get baptized in the "wrong" church/denomination, you can go to Hell for worshipping a false idol. Is there any scriptural evidence for this?   A: He is right in a way.  First I will note that all humans are already hellbound because we are sinners. The Law & Gospel further explain this as it points to God's perfection, and the just wages of man's sin is death and eternal wrath.  So if you are an idolator [following a false god, false jesus, false gospel, false word of God, and in a false religiin masqurading as Christian] then it along with your other sins is why you would end up in Hell. Scripture explains by your sin your wages would be given to you. "The wages of sin is death" Rom 3:23, and Heb 9:27 further explains "After death isconly judgment". So your sins are the issue, and need t...

Q: I know a gal who is all into the LGBT stuff and that is more important to her than Jesus. Despite the fact that I found something written by her years ago when she was 12 that was a declaration of her faith. We were talking/texting on faith matters , and she replied: "And that is why I am not a Christian. If my choices are 'I am a Supreme being who made you and knows everything about you but also all you are is wrong and you're going to hell because of it unless you become a perfect little automaton and do exactly what I say in this vague book that contradicts itself and was written by other humans,' then I guess I'm going to hell. Because dictating exactly how someone should live their life isn't love. That's megalomania." A: She doesn't want God because she isn't Christian, was never genuinely saved; wasn't born again by God. She loves sin and is chained by it, trapped in it, and so she has no desire to live in righteousness. She like...

A: It is simply because God gave man dominion over the earth, and this is what we have done with it. Was it fair that God had to give His only Son for you and I and all those who love Him? Our journey with Christ gives us hope for a bright eternal future but He never said that in THIS sin filled life, we would not have trouble. Remember in the Garden in Genesis 3, where they were told to not partake of the tree of knowledge and good and evil? Well, that's what we're enduring, them turning against Love and opting for sin. By their sin, Evil entered into existence. That's what this world is, what they brought on us - Evil & Suffering. And the thing about evil? Not the least bit fair, nor does it care.  This is what God is rescuing us from. And we praise God it is only temporary.  Each person is different and has their own unique situation. Suffering we go through is a lesson God teaches, and produces much good and good fruit in the end. So just continue to keep your fai...