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[garyd]

Upon the shores of the Sea of Sin, where in mankind and its teeming billions cavort about scarcely aware that they are slowly drowning, stands God almighty. In His mighty hand He holds a lasso which he hurls into the foaming sea with some frequency catching up those he has chosen and dragging them to shore always against their will. Once there they are cleaned up their blind eyes opened and about them is fastened a preserver that will bring them inescapably back to shore and those who now at last can see go immediately back into the Sea of Sin for they have loved ones there for whose safety they now fear.

These, now servants of God plead with the others in the sea begging them to just reach out and grab God's lasso as it passes by but they will not for the here and now means more to them than the hereafter and at long last they sink down into the sea and die. Those with the preservers about them die as well for that is the nature of the sea of sin but the preservers God placed about them carry them back to shore where they are restored and sent off to the golden city where they no more are troubled by the sea of sin or any of those in it rather in perfect happiness they serve God and each other and all take pleasure in each others company and have companionship with God.


Is it God's fault that he does not save everyone? Is it God's fault that the the rope passes within inches of them and they will not grasp it and be pulled upon the blessed shore? The rope would support the weight of the entirety of humanity but humanity will not touch it save only those few whom God ensnares within it's coils. The rope is not hard and has no thorns in it. It is soft to the touch and not hard to see. Yet still they will not grasp it for they think themselves good, and they are infatuated with the entertainments the sea offers even as it kills them.

[curisz]

and then there are those who firmly grip other lassos thrown from other shores much closer to them, and those who are really good swimmers and don't need the lasso, and those who would like to make the sea a better place...

[garyd]

Those who throw the other lassos only drag others deeper into the see with them. Of course they could swim to the shore but they won't for the same reason they will not grab the rope. And those who would like to make the sea a better place have in most of history suceeded only in making it worse though they often didn't realize and what service do you perform by making a death trap more appealing?

[curisz]

There are many paths to the shore, there are peaceful seas as well as turbulent ones, and sometimes its just a beautiful swim that is well worth taking. If you can't look around and see that you need to unfog your goggles!

[garyd]

It is the sea of sin. Appearances are always deceptive and all to often we prefer the deception to the reality.

There is but one path to the true shore, but one door into heaven, all others are illusions that magnify man at the expense of God and lead only to and ultimately to destruction for all save those whom God chooses to rescue and none of whom deserve it.

[curisz]

Well, like I've said in the past, if your allegory is true, and every peaceful, hard working Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan and atheist who works to make the world a better place, loves their family and does no harm is condemned to eternal torment by God for not worshipping .him the right way, I will gladly join them. A God like that is not the good guy, and heaven would not be somewhere I would want to go under those circumstances

But thats not the way it is. That's just the way some preachers down the line manipulated the interpretation to try and get a monopoly on salvation. Don't be their latest dupe.