While We Were Still Enemies, Jesus Died for Us

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    All of humanity mattered to Him. All are worth saving to Him. He did it. It’s up to each individual to make a choice to accept it or not to.
     
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    That happened while I was sleeping then. That was not communicated to me by those in charge, they told me it was considered advertising and didn’t meet thread creation standards. It was not an advertisement. It was news about the stance a Christian business took on the Christmas season as reported by Christian and conservatives news sources as linked.
     
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    ~ Yes , if one actually spends time they likely come to accept the Jewish faith — the original Torah — as the most logical. Christianity has too many interpretations of the same writings. "Religion of convenience " is always there .
     
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    yeah, I would guess that was a bigger part of it then it being an advertisement, just a guess based on what I saw, it was locked for a while before it went poof
     
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    No, he’s not. It is Satan who rebelled against Him and tried to overthrow Him who is evil. There was a war in Heaven and Lucifer and angels taking his side lost and were expelled from Heaven. The rest of Gods creation in the universe had to chose sides. This planet is with people created in His image was the one that chose the wrong side and the great conflict between good and evil is taking place here as the universe watches. Jesus dying on the cross and His resurrection won the war but the battle for individuals continue on. The evil one knows he had lost and is doomed and is simply trying to take as many of us with him as he can. He is the evil one.
     
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    I can imagine that an openly pro Christian hard news current events article proclaiming the true reason for the season caused some of the most militant and dogmatic among the atheists among us here to throw a big enough fit over it to make it go away. Squeaky wheel so to speak.
     
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    it was a Christian actually (or one playing one for PF, as we never really know) that was the squeaky wheel in this case, I had not seen anything like it before
     
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    I can understand the desire of the people back then for a part two that had less stoning and such in it
     
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    Sorry but if gods omnipotent he's allowing satan do what he does. Not to mention putting people in hell that don't belong there.
     
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    ~ Sadly the self-loathing, intolerant and immature have a real problem with others of faith. It bothers them. They have no self-respect so naturally they cannot respect others.
    Ironically these are the very individuals who will bow to human Masters — totalitarian government. People of faith will pray for them.
     
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    yep, like worshiping the golden cow <-- we pray for them

    people are free to believe or not believe in whatever they want, the other side is not infidels, they just believe differently - and believing differently is ok, it's not blasphemy
     
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    Like people of faith.
     
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    I can’t argue the point since I went back to bed after posting it and it was gone when I got up out in the pacific time zone.
     
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    " We merited death"

    Who is we?
    "abortion providers. ....…It’s the same with people who are practicing Muslims. Or staunch atheists. Or people with what we deem to be destructive political ideologies. (For all conservative readers, just think “Democrats.”)"

    So worship
    Jesus or merit death
    Blame one of your fellow Christians who was against free speech and stated he was going to report every person on the thread that did not agree with you
     
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    Well you brought politics right into it in your OP. I would be a lot more comfortable with Christianity if they dropped the "only through Christ" bit and the obsession with sin. It would ill behove an enlightened man (such as Jesus is purported to be) to speak like that.
     
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    In the New Testament, hell is just temporary and everyone makes bail of Judgment Day. Just because you have been in (a metaphor for being buried in the ground), it doesn't mean that you won't get into the gaudy golden cube called New Jerusalem. You could be tossed into the lake of fire if your name isn't written in the book of life. But you will never go back to hell because it is tossed into the lake of fire.

    People are always getting their hells mixed up. More people believe in the Islamic version of hell than in the biblical version. In the Islamic version when you die, you stay dead until Judgment Day when you are resurrected. If you are a good guy you get your own paradise with a couple of 90-foot-tall translucent women creatures, a harem of regular women, a herd of cute boys, and an eternal erection. Most of the people in hell are women. If you end-up in the Islamic hell you will be tortured for eternity.

    Know your hells because they are all different.
     
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    You had it through the bold part, then you ran off the rails with Evangelical baloney.

    Unconditional means ... unconditional.

    Only evangelical arrogance could add conditions to ... UNCONDITIONAL.:roll:
     
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    No one is in Hell yet. All who are consumed by it will be fully deserving of it as all humanity was before the cross. God could not simply destroy Satan for challenging him as that would have caused doubt as to whether he had a point and fear in all of creation that would then robotically worship out of fear not love. God was wide obviously and let Satan’s rebellion play out before the universe. Satan killing Jesus on the cross settled all doubt for the rest of the universe and ended any
    the whole point of Christianity is Christ and His saving the world from sin by doing what He did that began with what today is all about and ended with what Easter is all about.
     
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    This sounds reasonable enough. I feel like a more nuanced arguement would be to say that Jesus was trying to save mankind from suffering. However I think he was limited as a teacher because his is a unique path. Do as I do rings a bit hollow when you're not Jesus. This is why I feel that we need spiritual guidance from multiple angles - including, and especially, from outside religion itself.
     
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    So your god created this ultimate Evil, satan, that he knew would cause war and ultimately lead to the mass suffering of Gods creation, causing most of them to be condemned to hell — your god chose this

    Your god is evil
     
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    In what way ?

    To me, if someone matters to me I do NOT want them to suffer......
     
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    Why did this god of yours create satan? I dunno…seems like an a55 hole move.
     
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    Jesus Died for Us

    Wrong section for this thread, this should be in the Religion or Humor and Satire section or there should be a Myth and Fairy Tale section.
     
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    That sure doesn't sound fair or just....you mean if parents are murderers then their children should face jail/execution, too ???

    No, you won't answer, religious people seldom do.... and you didn't...

    More UNanswered questions:
    Who made us sinners and why would any decent being do that ???????????????


    So fetuses are sinners, too ? Sounds like there is NO "innocent life" on earth....no wonder the earth is such a mess, bad planning, bad intentions, nasty ideas...
     
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    Hey, you solve one problem and another unexpectedly shows up.

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