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It's not trivial. God is only asking you to believe. You don't have to anything else. He took the punishment for you. That's quite different than asking you to give up your own life or that of a loved one.
How about prior to the supposed lifetime of Jesus?
How about prior to the supposed lifetime of Jesus?
"Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness." The timing of Jesus's redemptive work doesn't matter. What matters is whether you believe God.
The difference is trivial. The fact is, you believe that some kind of human/god sacrifice is needed to appease God's wrath. It's superstitious nonsense, on par with people throwing their children into volcanoes to appease local deities.
If you're saying that God needed to sacrifice himself to appease his own wrath, well, that's even creepier and even more bizarre.
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Exactly.
Like cutting off his nose to spite his face.
For the life of me, I can't understand why people still believe such inanity.
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"Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man." -- Francis Xavier
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What about adults who choose to become Christians?
Superstition, ignorance, and fear. The same things that make adults throw their own children into volcanoes.
It's not trivial. God is only asking you to believe. You don't have to anything else. He took the punishment for you. That's quite different than asking you to give up your own life or that of a loved one.
Sadly, people who are not simple-minded cannot believe something as patently ridiculous as a super being pretending to kill part of himself in order to "save" those whom he afflicted in the first place.
Superstition, ignorance, and fear. The same things that make adults throw their own children into volcanoes.
Ridiculous. I often see adults give their life to Christ and experience forgiveness, peace and reconciliation. No children are harmed. As a matter of fact, they get a better mom or dad in return.
Ridiculous. I often see adults give their life to Christ and experience forgiveness, peace and reconciliation. No children are harmed. As a matter of fact, they get a better mom or dad in return.
People around the world are converting to religions you would consider to be false: Islam, Mormonism, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Scientology, and so forth. And yet you do not see those conversions as evidence for the validity of those religions. Why not?
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