Thread: Repent or Perish! Ads

Lol, time for me to go on a long off-topic post again... Asphodel Terrarium said I second KaitouKids' thought. Relogion should not threaten or use scare tactics in advertisement... It just doesn't feel right. Click to expand... Ostensibly, the motivation to be a good person should be that you want to, that you feel compassion for your fellow humans, and a love for God. But somewhere along the way, yeah, the hellfire and brimstone thing got popular. Rudolph Quin said From what I know of Christianity, the story goes Jesus and Lucifer were on opposite sides when we were all just spirits in Heaven. Jesus came up with the plan for us to come down here on Earth so we could forget our life as spirits and be tested so we could choose to follow and love God even when presented with other options and desires. Lucifer came up with a plan too. He wanted everyone to go down to Earth but to automatically get a clean check Earth life would be a glorification of God but just in human bodies. We wouldn't get a choice, because it wouldn't be fair that some of us wouldn't choose God because we didn't know any better. We would all be allowed to reach the ultimate prize of Heaven life at the end by being forced to choose God. And Lucifer lost the election and was cast out with all of his campaign managers, and those who fought for him even when he lost, which ended up being a 13 of the host of Heaven. Click to expand... What you said sounds like the Latter-Day Saint doctrine though I'm not 100 familiar with that one. With evangelical protestants, it varies a bit, due to the fact that the Bible says some stuff, and popular Christian tradition says some other stuff. For instance, 1. The name Lucifer is Greek translation of a Hebrew term that only appears once, in Isaiah, and refers to an earthly king. of Babylon. 2. The serpent in the garden of Eden is not explicitly identified with Satan, such an identification is due to a verse in Revelation referring to Satan as that serpent of old. 3. Satan's appearance in the book of Job seems to indicate Satan is still allowed into heaven and it seems more like he is a servant of God who tests people's resolve, rather than tries to lead them astray as its own end. Revelation on the whole seems to be the main establishment that Satan is a specific entity who fought with God, was cast out, is now trying to corrupt the earth and bring about Armageddon. So that's just observation purely from the text of the standardized protestant bible. Stuff like... concepts from theologians, popular folklore, Jewish views on the originally hebrew scriptures, and more... all inevitably vary. As far as I'm concerned, Christians who support the idea of using fear tactics, or using government to proselytize, are Satan's emissaries. Making abortion or gay marriage illegal takes away people's ability to choose for themselves things like that make God's will the law of the land, punishable if it's not obeyed. Who's plan does that sound like? Not Christ's. Especially with things that affect nobody else but those who choose to do those things. Just my personal opinion and something I've always felt was wrong about advertisements like that and in particular laws and government being used to strong arm people into a faith they don't support. Click to expand... My theory it's not really about Christianity, it's about maintaining the values of their culture, of which Christianity is only a partial foundation. This due to the fact that Christianity became a dominant force, and as people are wont to do, they started wanting to protect that dominance. Which is why they ignore many parts of scripture, their supposed sole source for truth and moral guidance, which would suggest a different course of action.