Kindred,
I can predict what you are thinking.
How?
To be honest, by the level of grooming.
People want and need (desperate at times) to believe in salvation and forgiveness.
Because we are fallible, we want to be forgiven for our mistakes, sins and even our faults, so that we can have salvation; therefore, we are easy targets for wolves and snakes in shepherd's clothing and false prophets.
Manipulators who will take advantage of our desires, fears, wishful thinking and goodwill for power and greed.
When the truth is told, the good, the bad and the ugly, it becomes hard to swallow.
How can someone who has been told all their lives that (s)he has been saved and will be saved, not be?
After all Jesus Christ, as he hung on the cross with his dying words asked the Lord to forgive them, the unholy abusers of power; therefore, how could those unholies not be forgiven?
If it was just a question of forgiveness by the victim, then heaven would be open to all sorts of unholies and Satan's minions.
But is it?
Heaven is a place of pure goodness and light.
Those that are incompatible will not be able to see Heaven's Gate, let alone enter it (and if tried, the burning from the incompatibility will be unbearable to the unholy ones - like what you would see in an exorcist).
Therefore, to enter heaven we must also be compatible in our hearts, minds and souls; our character must be good enough to pass the Lord's Judgement.
Again, reflect upon your character.
Have you passed each test of character?
If not, what areas do you need to work on?
Do you know?
Did you pass your tests of character?
