Not really. In the religious sense it's a supernatural gift granted by god to humans (and I think the Catholics will tell you to angels as well) for their eternal salvation, if they meet certain conditions. Those are the conditions that are impossible to meet, essentially because they require us to deny our humanity, repeatedly.
Properly defined, as you've done, I agree entirely. But what herald's talking about, and the attitude he displays (or she I suppose, though that seems unlikely) in this thread and others I think is delusional and alarmingly judgmental. He's condemned most of us who disagree with him to the lake of fire, directly or indirectly, and I'm convinced that if he had the power to do so, he'd cheerfully drop us all in personally, believing he was doing god's work.
"There but for the grace of God go I." - Attributed to John Bradfordhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradford who was an English reformer imprisoned for his faith as he watched another criminal on his way to be executed for his crimes.
You are a broken record that no one wants to hear. You can repeat that nonsense until the cows come home but no matter what you think, the bible is a work of fiction and you are sounding more and more like raving psycho.
Why don't you go and spread your message of hope to all the junkies down on East Hastings? Maybe some of them want to hear your BS.
I remember that part.
I don't remember that part.
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He's twisting Revelation 20:15 to mean what he wants. It says "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire" after The Beast and all his followers, and Hell, and Death, got tossed in. He thinks Revelation is about our future, not the Roman persecution of Christians that was going on when it was written. There's no indication that "written in the book of life" means you had to have been "born again" in the sense herald means. These people just make stuff up to frighten children.
