Ministry to a girl facing execution

Hi, good luck with the debate.Despite picking CON bearski seems to be representing the PRO position in the question of "Did the pastor advise the girl correctly". Therefore despite being PRO, I will take the position that the pastor did not advise the girl correctly. I support this on 3 basis, which in order of importance are:1 Belief in the supernaturalThe pastor puts forward a position that contains several supernatural aspects such as Jesus dying to gift eternal life and the ability to recieve this gift and be wiped away of sin by repenting.These are religious beliefs that are not based on observable or testable reality. While people may personally have individual faith, no such process has ever been shown to exist.The Pastor therefore advised her incorrectly because she will not get eternal life for reprenting because such a process (as far as we know) does not exist. If bearski wishes to assert that this process does exist, the burden of proof is on him as he is the one claiming an unobservable undocumented process exists.2 Repenting is not enough to be gifted with eternal lifeEven if bearski proves issue 1, another problem is that the Pastor is not describing the process that takes place in mainstream denominations of Christianity.Repenting of sins is a common place part of reaching heaven, but not the only requirement. Another key aspect common across almsost all denominations is that you have to accept Jesus as the son of god and your saviour. This is supported by numerous biblical verses. For instance:Ephesians 2:8-9 'For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.'Matthew 10:32 '“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.'Romans 10:9 'If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.'John 14:6 'Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."'Due to this, almost every Christian denomination considers acceptance of Jesus as a prerequisite for eternal life."We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith" - Anglican Church[1]"Justification is God's gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ." - Southern Baptist [2]"Our churches by common consent...teach that men cannot be justified before God by their own strength, merits, or works, but are freely justified for Christ's sake, through faith, when they believe that they are received into favor, and that their sins are forgiven for Christ's sake, who, by His death, has made satisfaction for our sins. This faith God imputes for righteousness in His sight." - Lutheran [3] The Pastor's advice is therefore almost certainly incorrect unless he happens to believe a very minor sect and as per point 1 the beliefs of that very minor sect happen to be right rather than those of all the other major sects or of observable reality.Indeed if we knew more about the Pastor's denomination it may have been possible to find even more ways that he was incorrect. In Catholicism for instance a mortal sin such as murder requires either the Sacrament of Penance (Confession, which must be done with a Priest or Bishop) which the pastor would not be capable of giving or a very specific form of penance which the girl may not acheive and the pastor does not explani; perfect contrition:"Perfect contrition. Sorrow for sin arising from perfect love. In perfect contrition the sinner detests sin more than any other evil, because it offends God, who is supremely good and deserving of all human love. Its motive is founded on God's own goodness and not merely his goodness to the sinner or to humanity. This motive, and not the intensity of the act, less still the feelings experienced, is what essentially constitutes perfect sorrow.[4]"It is a very specific form of contrition which you cannot choose to feel, you either do or you don't and is very hard to acheive.This is one example of how the pastor may have been even further from the truth depending on the sect in question.3 She would not be killed tomorrowThe USA is currently the only country in the world that uses the gas chamber to execute people as is referenced in the story.[5] The USA does not kill minors.[6] Hence it is impossible that a little girl held in a womens prison would be due to be executed the next day. Additionally there are various legal mechanisms where even if she was somehow due to be executed she might not end up being executed, such as being receiving a pardon or having her sentence commuted.The pastor has therefore advised incorrectly when he states she will die at sunrise and that she must be punished.[1] http://www.eskimo.com...[2] http://www.sbc.net...[3] https://en.wikisource.org...[4] http://www.ewtn.com...[5] https://en.wikipedia.org... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org...