On the one hand you can't get to heaven if you don't follow His rules (dictator). On the other hand He wants us to be nice to the downtrodden (gay).
I can never decide. Anyone have any guidance?
Ok this is laughably ignorant.
Brutal dictator is way too tame a description of the way Christ will seem to those who reject Gods grace and mercy at their appointed time. The bible describes kings trying to bury themselves under the ground to avoid the awful anger of God. But they fail. Noone can escape his eye, his judgment and his punishment. He can kill with a word , he can commit a person to eternal damnation. He is not a mere King who can hurt or kill a person in this life only. His judgment is forever. He is the King of all Kings and if you mess with Him you are going down. Through Him all things were made and all things are sustained so where can you hide from Him?
In your case the fear of Him could be the beginning of wisdom. Why would you even take the risk of being wrong on this? The stakes are way too high.
So you vote brutal dictator.
No i vote for Jesus as Lord, Saviour and friend. Because i have not rejected His grace and mercy.
My Imaginary Friend Just Told Me His Name is Jesus!
In last Sunday's sermon, Pastor Deacon Fred recalled a conversation he had with an unsaved cashier at a Safeway in Des Moines. "This feller was just yapping to himself, and mumbling," said Pastor. "So I asked him, who are you talking to? To which he replied, 'My 2,000 year old invisible flying friend.' I told him, as an adult, he really needed to let go of such childish things. Part of being an adult is living in the real world and not clinging to made-up stories and imaginary friends, no matter how comforting. Then, he happened to mention that his friend was called "Jesus." I told him, "Well, why didn't you say so? That's different kettle of fish entirely, my friend!"
Landover Baptist Creation Scientist,
Dr. Jonathan Edwards gives candid advice to True Christians® who have unsaved family members with invisible or so-called, "imaginary" friends. "When does a friend stop becoming imaginary?" asks Dr. Edwards, "Well, most Christian Psychologists believe it is when your imaginary friend tells you his name is Jesus. And I believe that to be true in almost every case. You see," says Edwards, "when a person finally becomes a True Christian®, all imagination ceases to exist. So if a person is saying that their imaginary friend, just told him or her that its name is Jesus, it is reasonable that the friend is no longer imaginary. To put it in simple terms, their friend is the living Son of God who sits on a throne in Heaven and hears and watches everything that every single person on Earth does, each and every day
Christian Psychologists teach us that an unsaved person's mind is very susceptible to imagination. It is only when an unsaved person gets saved that their imagination is replaced with reality. And that reality is the True Christian® reality - that we are living in a world where invisible demons and angels are fighting an unseen, but very real war over human souls. The harvesting of souls for the Devil's consumption and the Lord's delight, we know to be real, because no unsaved person could ever imagine such a thing. It is only when their minds and bodies are transformed by the born again experience that all imagination ceases to exist. What replaces their silly world of mental fiction, transforms a previously distorted view of the world into a vivid and clear reality. That reality includes the resurrection of the dead, the communion of saints, the fellowship of angels, and the everlasting torture of eternal hellfire for all those who never heard about Jesus.