Salvation?

My invite to this blog as a writer mentioned copy-pasting as acceptable (why wouldn't it be in the first place??? But anyway...) so here comes my first copy-paste...hope you enjoy the read.

What exactly are Christians being saved from?

Question: If Christians are saved from hell, who is banishing sinners to hell? Isn't it God the one who promises eternal fire and brimstone for the unrepentant? Aren't people being saved from God himself by God himself?

• Christians are indeed being saved from God (according to Christianity) since first and foremost, God is the originator of sin (for he created everything) and in himself not being able to forgive Lucifer for fulfilling his purpose; what God created him for, is itself a testament to the Christian's God's cruelty. Another thing, this issue of hell....why would God want to punish a sinner's soul for all eternity? Isn't that cruelty to the extreme? If he wanted to punish wouldn't it have been easier to simply destroy that soul completely?
  



• Secondly, Christianity also does give us this hope that hell doesn't exist. This hope however resides mostly in theologians otherwise most Christians would have given up Christianity for the bottle long ago. Most theologians indeed believe that there is no hell for God cannot create us to burn in hell. He is, after all, merciful isn't he? Indeed, a handful of priests have already been excommunicated from the Christianity due to their perpetuating of this rather radical teaching to their flock.
  

• Most of all, Christians are not really saved from hell but rather from sin. Yes, ultimately the wages of sin IS death but think of it this way, taking sin as a virus and God as white blood cells, the white blood cells cannot co-exist with the virus and must obliterate it whether or not the outcome of said obliteration is the human being getting better. I'm sure there's a point in there somewhere.

Just a lost mind, doing what it does best...

So....yah! No am not an atheist but that doesn't really matter, what matters is being able to question every belief one takes for granted as truth set in stone and being able to reason for oneself instead of using that age old excuse: we cannot understand God.