How others chose my faith

[Karadeniz]

3. True, but there's always the exceptions. If one has a well-developed soul, one can "feel"that

Intolerance, exclusivity as just not right. My mother was raised staunch Southern Baptist. However, when she lived in Japan in the mid 50's and came to love the Japanese, she had to reject her church's teachings that only Christians could go to heaven. She realized that a God of love would love them, too, and not reject them.

Similarly, some Christians will notice that in scripture, the members of the movement freely discuss reincarnation as if it were an understood fact. I read that 25% of Christians believe in reincarnation, which goes against all the churchy PR that faith, grace, forgiveness, whatever is what Jesus taught. As it turns out, Jesus's parables teach reincarnation and karma, so that 25% felt the right way, despite dogma.