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Jesus ... invited only freely given belief and love.
It would seem the Christian "deal" runs something like: "You have the free choice between believing in Jesus and going to heaven or not believing, and spending eternity in torment. Choose any old way you want, and no pressure."
Now, I understand that it's not docrinaire to put it that way, but it certainly seems to amount to that often. I would feel the choice was more "free" if there was no mention of reward or punishment in the Bible, and the soul presumably found out about their happy reward (or terrible punishment) at death. It's suspicious, no?
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Sure sounds like coersion to me, even if it is smothered in apologetics, and topped off with a bright, red appeal to faith. As an old poet once said, "Coersion by any other name would still seem as pavlovian."
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