Co-founder of the South African Satanic Church, Riaan Swiegelaar, has resigned from the church after he was shown unconditional love and had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ....
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Jesus will love you unconditionally but he won't accept you unconditionally.
Jesus is very clear on this in scripture. He says the path to heaven is a narrow one few will enter in.
There are actual "Christians" who deny the existence of hell because 'Jesus loves me too much for that bro' yeah sorry, no. You actually need to follow His teachings in order for Him to accept you. He loves you no matter what.
Churches are their own worst enemy half the time but the idea that you don't need to do anything different to be saved and Christian contradicts scripture.
The scriptures are part of the Bible which is a product of the religion. That's the whole point. It seems he's saying from his experiences with Jesus, what's written in the scriptures isn't completely true; that there is no "hell" to fear, etc. That Jesus will both love and accept you unconditionally. I've also heard this same type of story from both religious and non-religious people that claimed to have met or experienced god/jesus in near death experiences.
This is his story, not mine. I'm not religious and based on my research, this is more believable to me than scriptures.
The scriptures were written by dozens of different people in different times and places. They predate the Bible, which is simply a compilation of the scriptures.
If the scriptures aren't true, as they the most comprehensive account of Jesus's life (especially Luke's gospel), there's no reason to believe Jesus did anything miraculous at all.
That's what faith is all about, isn't it? You need to choose to believe or not. I believe those scriptures have kernels of truth in them, but they supposedly were written down from memories passed over generations, then translated and re-translated many times. The stories of what are supposed to be the same event are told quite differently in the books. I personally put more stock into people's personal accounts that are living today vs. uncertain words we're told were written thousands of years ago. But that's just my opinion, you believe what you think is true, I'm not trying to tell anyone what to believe.