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Disturbing trends!

Some Catholics and mainline Protestants say you don't need faith in God to go to Heaven

There are a lot of disturbing trends starting to play out before our eyes now, such as this new wave of saying that you can go to heaven through any religious organization, as we wrote about last month. Now there's this story of some Catholics and Protestants that say you don't need faith in God or even believe in God to go to Heaven. Scripture is very clear, as it says unless we have faith, it is impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6 says, "But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

This is completely wrong from what the Bible clearly teaches us. Data for this study, which was done back in September of this year, was collected from 6,485 adults in the United States.

Pew Researchers made a decision to ask some questions, for instance; the meaning of life? The purpose of suffering and why bad things happen to good people? This national study was released during some life threatening times for everyone worldwide.

When talking about American views about the eternity, this study revealed that the majority of adults in the United States believe in Heaven and hell, but more believe in Heaven than they do in hell. Of the people that were polled, 73% of them believe in Heaven, in contrast to the 62% that believe in hell.

Also, 39% of American adults believe that anyone who doesn't believe in God will all go to Heaven, 68% of Catholics and 56% of Protestant Christians were also found to believe everyone will go to Heaven.

When people were asked about suffering in the world today, few of the people blamed God, although some did. Most of them did agree that suffering happens because of people's actions. A lot of evangelical Christians believe that satan has his hands into human suffering.

Now 86% of adults believe that people's suffering is due to random choices that are made.

Even though people have a wide range of beliefs on suffering, most of the people did not view suffering as something that is negative, because 68% believe "everything happens for a reason" and that suffering exists " to provide and opportunity for people to come out of it stronger."

Many people that were polled in this study show the way they see suffering as being connected to the way they see God.

Eighty percent of the people in this group said that suffering in this world comes from people, not God. Also, 70% of the same group believe that it's okay to go against God's plans.

Around 69% of the people from the historical black churches blame satan for most of the suffering in the world, but less than half of Protestant Christians and Catholics blame satan for the suffering.

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Vaccine Microchips

Some people are getting Vaccine Passport Microchips placed into their hands

According to all the new COVID restrictions in Sweden, many of the people who live there have decided to have a microchip implanted with their vaccine passport into their hand.

Since December 1st, Sweden started new regulations that would have people have a vaccine passport to all activities with more than 100 people attending. Karin Tegmark Wisell, who is with the Swedish Public Health Agency, said, "Vaccine passes are a measure that we see as necessary. We cannot just kick back and hope for the best."

A Swedish newspaper called the Aftonbladet has reported that since the regulations were put into place, the number of people who have come forward to receive a microchip in their hand in place of having to carry a passport have rapidly increased.

One person that had it inserted in his hand is Hannes Sjoblad. He told the Aftonbladet he had the microchip with all his vaccine passport inserted into his hand. Now when he scans his hand, all of his COVID information shows up on his cell phone.

There are around 6,000 people in Sweden that have the microchip inserted into their hand since 2014. They use the microchip for things such as train tickets and their identification cards.

Alot of people are calling this "Internet of bodies." Others are calling it medical injections; it's all devices that are going into the human body and connects to the internet.

Mary Lee, a RAND (Research and Development) said, "It's a bunch of devices that are connected to the internet that contain software and that either collect personal health data about you or can alter the body's function. We think of this 'internet of bodies' as a collection of all devices as well as all the data."

They are calling it a "health tool." It is predicted that the microchip will become more popular as time goes on.

Haley Weiss said back in 2018, "As with most technologies, the tipping point for implantable chips will come when they become so useful they'll be hard to refuse. It could happen sooner than you think."

Also, several of the European countries have now reestablished restrictions since the rising of the Omicron variant, which is now popping up in many countries around the world.

Austria has now installed a full lockdown. Germany is getting closer to what will be a countrywide vaccine mandate after they have stopped the unvaccinated from public places such as restaurants and more. Also, the Netherlands has now mandated businesses to start closing earlier.

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced some new plans to fight COVID-19 all through the winter months, which will include testing that will be stricter for people entering the United States.

The President said, "It doesn't involve shutdowns or more lockdowns, but widespread vaccinations and boosters and testing and a lot more."