See that's the thing, so this Christian church's list is a little shorter than that one's. For example, I was raised Mormon (no longer though). They thought that in order to "accept" the gift of salvation they had to:

1. Have faith in Christ

2. Repent (that really just means "truly desire to follow his will and commit to trying even though they know they'll suck at it)

3. Get baptized by someone in their clergy the same way Jesus did (under water)

4. Have someone in their clergy put their hands on your head and perform a ceremony wherein you accept the Holy Ghost

None of those are big things. Certainly nothing to "boast" about. But that's THEIR checklist. Yours is just shorter. But you both agree you do have to DO something to earn/accept/receive/whatever salvation.

I don't know. I guess I just don't get why Christians think this is such a unique aspect of their religion and seem to accuse everyone else of blasphemy for trying to earn salvation (no matter how much the insist they don't believe that). Nobody who reads the Bible thinks they can build a tower to get to heaven.

See that's the thing, so this Christian church's list is a little shorter than that one's. For example, I was raised Mormon (no longer though). They thought that in order to "accept" the gift of salvation they had to:

1. Have faith in Christ

2. Repent (that really just means "truly desire to follow his will and commit to trying even though they know they'll suck at it)

3. Get baptized by someone in their clergy the same way Jesus did (under water)

4. Have someone in their clergy put their hands on your head and perform a ceremony wherein you accept the Holy Ghost

None of those are big things. Certainly nothing to "boast" about. But that's THEIR checklist. Yours is just shorter. But you both agree you do have to DO something to earn/accept/receive/whatever salvation.

I don't know. I guess I just don't get why Christians think this is such a unique aspect of their religion. Nobody who reads the Bible thinks they can build a tower to get to heaven.

See that's the thing, so this Christian church's list is a little shorter than that one's. For example, I was raised Mormon (no longer though). They thought that in order to "accept" the gift of salvation they had to:

1. Have faith in Christ

2. Repent (that really just means "truly desire to follow his will and commit to trying even though they know they'll suck at it)

3. Get baptized the same way Jesus did (under water)

4. Have someone in their clergy put their hands on your head and perform a ceremony wherein you accept the Holy Ghost

None of those are big things. Certainly nothing to "boast" about. But that's THEIR checklist. Yours is just shorter. But you both agree you do have to DO something to earn/accept/receive/whatever salvation.

I don't know. I guess I just don't get why Christians think this is such a unique aspect of their religion. Nobody who reads the Bible thinks they can build a tower to get to heaven.