There's evidence that Jesus travelled to India and Tibet in his younger years, there where the bible says he was a carpenter during those years. There's many video's on this subject. Here are just two:
7min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjERTNVXgfg
30 min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEvomvO8cb0
This is important to know because it helps us to understand what Jesus really meant with that you have to go through him to enter the Kingdom of God. What this really means is that you have to become ego-less (like Jesus) to enter the Kingdom of God.
In Eastern traditions this is often referred to as ego-death or Enlightenment. And to achieve ego-death we need to go within. "Know Thyself" and "The Kingdom of God is Within" is what Jesus said.
Praying really hard to God and Jesus and accepting Jesus as your saviour will not get you out of the reincarnation process. And yes, there is evidence that Jesus originally spoke about reincarnation as well. But obviously the TPTB did not want to empower the people and therefore they would have had enough motivation to scrap reincarnation from the bible.
If you don't achieve ego-death, like Jesus, in this lifetime you don't have to worry. As long as you did not live your life in a completely selfish manner, you will go back to that place called heaven and then after a while you decide to reincarnate again. Even if you do end up in hell (which will feel like an eternity) you will get a chance again to redeem yourself. Even our brothers and sisters from the darkside were created by God.
Don't let dogmatic believers convince you that you only have one chance. People saying you only have one chance should have a good hard look at themselves. Instilling people with fear is not a good thing and is not what God and Jesus are about.
I feel like you are trying to bait me into arguing, which I won't do. If you are interested,or curious, though, I would suggest looking into what it meant in Genesis when it says Noah was perfect in his generations. It's a rabbit hole :).
But I will still say, YES, God is kind, loving, merciful and graceful towards us. 1000% YES, He is absolutely good.
One perfect bloodline and the rest be damned. So good! Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt leave that to me. I do the killing around here! Not bait, I would call it a powerful retort to your claim of god's goodness using your own beliefs to highlight the supreme hypocrisy of it all.
If a murderer gets sentenced to life in prison, does that make the judge “mean”?
If the judge decides to let the guilty go free in spite of clear evidence of guilt, and no sense of remorse in the murderer, would that make the judge “good” in your eyes?
Do you have kids? Do you punish your kids when they do wrong? Or do you let them do as they please, so that they will think you are a “good” dad?
You have the mindset of a petulant child, angry at his parents for daring to create boundaries on his behavior.
You are welcome to hate God as much as you want, but don’t think for a second that a spoiled, wicked, evil, sinful, prideful, fallen human like you gets to demand the Creator of the Universe act as you see fit.
How narcissistic can you be?
Why would I hate something I don't believe in? I dislike masses of people filling this world with stupefying bullshit. A child is naturally far wiser than someone like you who believes this crap and judges people based on it.
If you really didn’t believe God existed, you’d just roll your eyes at us idiots, and go about your day.
This was a thread of Christ-believers having a discussion about the nature of Christ and salvation.
But for some reason you felt the need to insert your two cents. Why is that?
Why are you emotionally incapable of just scrolling past? Why the overwhelming need to make sure we all know you’re an atheist, and we are wrong?
Is it for our benefit? Or is it for your own?
I hope you do some serious soul searching. The so-called Christians that hurt you when you were a child is not our fault, and not God’s fault.