Hi Chakrabortty,

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you [Linked Image] to The Highway Discussion Board and hope that you might find your time here profitable. You have raised some interesting concerns to which Pilgrim provided an excellent response. I'm glad you feel comfortable exploring further some of these ideas and hope that you will consider what we have to say in response to you.

Regarding your last post, I must suggest that these ideas are not new at all and in fact they were prevalent while Jesus walked this earth and so I will use His words in response to what you have said:

Matthew 7:12–15 "All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets. Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves."

This is how Jesus responded. Jesus did not teach that people should have a "broad" mind at all rather He gave warning that anyone teach otherwise was a "false prophet" and a ravening wolf. Would you contradict Jesus by having us be broad minded? Was Jesus "extreme" in His teaching? If so, I would prefer to follow Him and be "extreme" as you put it. Is it "modesty" that saves a man's soul? Not at all! Hear the Word of God pertaining to this matter. There is only one way to find salvation and that is through faith in Jesus Christ (the Jesus Christ that we know through the Bible). John 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me."

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Finally, we should only wait for the day when everything will be proved that who is right and who is wrong!

Beware of what lies ahead for those who do not have faith in Christ! This day that you speak of is the day of judgement when all men will stand before a thrice holy God and receive justice for their deeds. Pray for your own soul that you might be given eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to believe on Christ alone for mercy on this day. The way is not broad as you would suggest. Not broad at all. Salvation is by faith in Christ alone Chakrabortty and without it, you will not find salvation.

Matthew 12:36, 37 “And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

Romans 14:10,12 “…for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of od. For it is written,
As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow,
And every tongue shall confess to God. So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.”

II Corinthians 5:10 “For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.“

John 12:46-48 “I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness. And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.”

Revelation 20:11-13 “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.”

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