Howdy, Imagine you are allowed to ask Jesus one question, what would it be? Me, I'd ask : What took you so long? How about you?
It would seem that just meeting Jesus, being face to face with the real, living person, would answer all questions. Anything further would be totally superfluous.
According to the fairy tale, the last person you should ever want to meet is the Jesus character. When he returns he will torture everyone, kill all life, and blow-up the planet. He is not a nice guy.
Obviously liberals will make fun of the question but they really shouldn't, it's a way for a believer to analyze a part of their life. For me there would only be one question, "what more do I need to do to get into Heaven"?
In concert with other posters here, I'd ask him for the capacity to fully repent, that I might have his forgiveness, the restoration of my soul and his friendship.
Why didn't an omnipotent god know that people would be fighting and killing over the interpretation of a book for centuries?
The thing is that a magic number of people MUST be killed for their faith before the Jesus character returns. He insists on it. Since people claim that they want Jesus to return, they should be eager to be killed for their faith, especially if they could be killed while in church. That is why it is silly for people to want to pack guns in churches. They should be happy to be lucky enough to get killed while worshiping because their souls will be kept under the altar. As it says in Revelation 6:9-11 (CEV) = "9 When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of everyone who had been killed for speaking God’s message and telling about their faith. 10 They shouted, “Master, you are holy and faithful! How long will it be before you judge and punish the people of this earth who killed us?” 11 Then each of those who had been killed was given a white robe and told to rest for a little while. They had to wait until the complete number of the Lord’s other servants and followers would be killed."
Just WOW. Does your religion really mean no more than US partisan politics? So, there are more Democrats than Republicans in the USA AND more self identify as Christians in the USA. Let me help with what that shows. Not only are there plenty of people who are politically progressive while also being Christians, but JESUS was a liberal. If you want more on what Jesus says to do, I'd propose: - read Matthew 25:30 on. There, Jesus specifies a mistake Christians can make that would exclude them from Heaven. - notice what Jesus says about rich folks and heaven. It's a pretty good clue concerning the narcisists and self agrandizers we "pray" to in our politics today. - follow the example of the liberal you claim as the son of your God when it comes to discrimination as well as treatment of those who don't conform to our various individual behavior preferences. If we all did that, America would be a better place.
You can't be a liberal and a Christian. If someone claims they then they are lying about one or the other.
Two questions 1) Your religion has survived, thrived and prospered for the past 2000 years. How do you feel knowing that the only way it accomplished that was by ignoring Your messages to "Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets" and "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"? 2) Will Your Kingdom be established on Earth as soon as every elected office in America is held by Bible Thumping Republicans?
Well, millions of Americans are Christians and liberals - as I pointed out. And, there is NO question that Jesus was a liberal. He stood for everything liberals stand for today.
Jesus never had any women in his life aside from his mother and a prostitute and instead preferred to hang around with a bunch of sailors one of whom he referred to specifically as his "beloved". And YES Jesus DID support abortion because he advocated for every single word of the OT as being the word of your imaginary god which INCLUDES both an abortion procedure and the amount that an aborted fetus is worth. Jesus was definitely a liberal.
And this is what liberal "Christians" do, they twist the Bible to fit their ideology. Jesus spoke about marriage and even said female and male so because He didn't specifically mention gays you'd think He would have included it in his statement. Jesus also never condemned having sex with a goat but doesn't mean He approves of it. If God didn't want men and women to form a union He would have made us all the Same sex. How come He gave Adam a female instead of a hairy guy called Buster?
Oh the IRONY given that this is EXACTLY what FUNDAMENTALIST evangelical Christians do on a DAILY basis. The bovine excrement allegations against gays were NEFARIOUSLY edited into your bible in 1947. Prior to that your OT only condemned pederasty, not homosexuality. Jesus was allegedly a descendent of that well known gay King David himself who had an affair with Johnathon.