Getting to Heaven

[Rosie]

Do you think you got to be in a church to go to Heaven?  Do you got to believe in God to get there?
My dad is agnositc person and sometimes that scares me cause what if he dies and don't believe? Will he get in Heaven? It would be awful for me if  he don't.  
Like he isn't sure about stuff after death but he says he believes there is a creator person but he thinks man has goofed him up cause they put human ways like anger in him. I don't know. I know people who say they are Christians only they are mean and judging all the time and even bearing false witness and my dad don't do none of that stuff so why should they get in Heaven if my dad don't when he acts more like Jesus then they do? Do you know how I mean?

Its scary to think about what happens after dying. I used to be scared I was going to Hell cause that's what Scarlette told me about not being baptized.  That lady troll person who become a man and is now my imaginary friend   once told me all you got to do is accept Jesus you know but then she turned out to not even be a real christian person so probably maybe even that is a lie. But you know my mom got me baptized when I tried to kill myself cause they wasn't sure if I was going to live so she took care of that part. But what about my dad?

[charity]

Pray for your dad.

1 CORINTHIANS 7:16  Wife, for all you know, you might save your husband. Husband, for all you know, you might save your wife.

If the prayers and example of a wife could save a husband I think it can be true for a daughter and her father.  Show your dad how much joy and peace your faith brings to you.

[Tatiana]

Rosie you worry too much.  If your father is a good man I think he'll get into Heaven.  I think we all will.  I don't believe in Hell.

[Libby]

No-one can say who will or will not go to Heaven.  Only God knows what is in our hearts so only He can determine who will go to Heaven.  Taking up space in a church does not get someone a key to Heaven.  We need to trust that God will handle us and our loved ones as a loving and just father handles and cares for his child.  Talk to God and hand it over to him.
As for baptism and not going to Heaven.  That is not a teaching that I am familiar with.  What I have been taught is we aren't sure what happens.  Think of all the little babies who die hours after being born.  There is Baptism by desire and I don't think I've ever met someone who wanted to be baptised as badly as you did.  I am pleased your mum had you baptised so you can stop worrying about it.  Trust in God.

[Kim]

I don't think God is so egotistical and petty that he is going to damn people simply for having doubts.  I would worry more about those who portray holiness while harming others in private.

[Addy]

I believe that "lady troll person who become a man and is now my imaginary friend" will have a harder time getting into Heaven than your dad will.

[Rosie]

Only if he got something wrong in his head I think God will understand that and besides I don't want for any person to go to Hell except for people like Hitler.

Today I learned something that I already sort of kind of knew but not like I know how not to leave towels on the bathroom floor. Our tongue is what causes us to bear false witness and that is one of the ten laws you know. Like if my mom says whose mess is this and I say Ruby when it is mostly mine then I beared false witness. That is a serious sin cause of being one of the ten you know.  
Something to about forums that I figured out to is you got to be careful about saying somebody is a fake or a troll or something like that cause if there not then you beared false witness against that person. I hope I never did that without even knowing I did it. That would stink to get to Heaven and have God say to you I want you to meet whoever and she was real right?  There will be some who are going to get to Heaven and God will be saying I want for you to meet Roseanna Elizabeth Kimberly because she is the girl who was real but you hurt her by saying she was a fake.  I won't be mad at them but I hope God might be just a little bit mad for me. 
Something else that I got to change is using my tongue for gossip. I can't talk about people or I am a gossip. I really am a gossip cause I talk about kids at school and stuff. That is a bad thing about me.

[charity]

I think God will take care of those people who accuse someone of something without knowing the absolute truth.  It's in scripture that he will wipe the tears from your face.  Believe in him and trust him.  God is a forgiving God but he is also a just God.  You're his kid and if somebody messes with his kid, they're going to have to answer to him.  I wouldn't want to be the one answering to God for that.
I will pray for your dad.  Salvation is a gift but your dad needs to accept that gift and the only way to do that is to claim Jesus Christ to be his savior.

[scarlette]

While you all reach your final destination of Heaven or Hell, I'll be waving at you because I'm coming back.

[Tatiana]

You're coming back to THIS world?  THIS planet?  You'll probably need a gas mask to breath and those high boots for all the water from glaciers that melted.  And there will probably be huge bugs.

[Rosie]

God will let Scarlette come back only he is going to send her back as a lizard just as a joke on her. 

[Trudy]

My biggest issue with most organized religion is the emphasis on punishment.  When you threaten the fires of Hell on someone the intent is to scare the Hell out of you so you comply with whatever rules they come up with.
No child should ever have to worry about her parent going to Hell.  

[charity]

I don't think there is an emphasis on punishment.  God is our father and he rewards us for doing good and he punishes us for doing bad.  When we break the rules of our earthly parents we are punished so why would it be different with our heavenly parent?

[Tatiana]

The difference is they don't punish us for all of eternity and God does.  What kind of a parent does that?

[Rosie]

Hell is confusing sort of like the death penalty is cause who all are you trying to punish right?