Your interpretation of the Doctrine of Atonement reads like superstition as in Jesus Christ made a bargain with God. A quid pro quo with God? Grow up! The ancients did that when they sacrificed their best to the gods.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 9:50 pmI do. But that's totally irrelevant. It wouldn't change one thing if I didn't.Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2020 9:47 pmYou may trust the Doctrine of Atonement...Actually, he said a ton about that. Here's just one bit:
For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
You said Paul didn't say anything about that. I showed you he did. You may not like that it's so, but that's also irrelevant to the question. It is what it is.
No wonder people are quitting Christianity when pastors are still preaching human sacrifice!
A human life is a series of events bound together by memories and the sort of personal identifications used by the police. There is no essence that persists from conception to the grave. Some man may be characterised by a persisting personality and a persisting belief system but that persistence is caused by the inertia of habits and customs.
No, what a man does is what he is. By his fruits you know him.