Oh I agree, that's exactly the kind of line you'll get out of Evangelicals. "Join our religion, do X, Y and Z and you'll enjoy an agreeable afterlife".
And I fully appreciate this is not your position on what the correct interpretation of the bible is.
But as you say, this is precisely what Evangelicals (and the religious leaders of many other common demoninations) often tell potential new and existing adherents. Which was basically the original point being made.
It may not be the strictly accurate interpretation of the bible, but it is very frequently heard. I personally have been to Christian religious meetings a grand total of 4 times in my life, plus 1 mandatory pre-marriage counselling session, which happened to be with my wife's minister, and each time I heard exactly this notion being put to adherents more or less explicitly and addressed to me as a non-Christian in particular.
I'm already quite certain that there's no reason to expect any kind of continuance of consciousness after death, so it's not really a concern for me personally, but it is a concern that these ministers of various religions don't feel any compunction about using the lure of heaven to draw in people who don't know any better.
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And I fully appreciate this is not your position on what the correct interpretation of the bible is.
But as you say, this is precisely what Evangelicals (and the religious leaders of many other common demoninations) often tell potential new and existing adherents. Which was basically the original point being made.
It may not be the strictly accurate interpretation of the bible, but it is very frequently heard. I personally have been to Christian religious meetings a grand total of 4 times in my life, plus 1 mandatory pre-marriage counselling session, which happened to be with my wife's minister, and each time I heard exactly this notion being put to adherents more or less explicitly and addressed to me as a non-Christian in particular.
I'm already quite certain that there's no reason to expect any kind of continuance of consciousness after death, so it's not really a concern for me personally, but it is a concern that these ministers of various religions don't feel any compunction about using the lure of heaven to draw in people who don't know any better.