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GDR Member  Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Ringo writes: Whether making ourselves right with God or right with our neighbour, the Christ-crutch "mechanism" is still a way of squirming out of our responsibility. Better to stand before God and say, "It's not that I don't appreciate your Son's 'sacrifice', but I'll take what's coming to me anyway." If one doesn't believe in an afterlife then "what's coming to you", is going to happen in this life which is exactly the same as what happens to a Christian. As a Christian I believe that there is a God that cares about the type of person that I am. Confession, repentence and forgiveness is good for the soul, and if it is real will make one more like the person that God wants us to be. IMHO Assuming you're a parent and your 15 year old screws up. Wouldn't you rather that he/she came clean, told the truth, said they wouldn't do it again and asked for your forgiveness, as opposed to ignoring it and pretending it hadn't happened?
Ringo writes: They have their ups and downs. Saskatchewan is next-year country. It's a great province. Spent a year in Moose Jaw and loved it. Everybody is entitled to my opinion. 
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GDR Member Posts: 6202 From: Sidney, BC, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 2.1 |
Ringo writes: I'm talking about the idea of Jesus "paying a debt for us" or something to that effect. I don't see it that way either. CS Lewis writes, "The central belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start". It is like the example I used with the 15 year old. God hopes that we confess, repent and ask for forgiveness because it heals our heart. What God wants is a heart that isn't focused on ourselves but a heart that yearns for goodness, love, justice etc. Frankly I think that you are rejecting a view of Christianity that I don't believe in either, but then who's to say that I have it all correct either. Everybody is entitled to my opinion.
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ringo Member (Idle past 438 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
GDR writes: Frankly I think that you are rejecting a view of Christianity that I don't believe in either.... So we're only divided by a common language. Help scientific research in your spare time. No cost. No obligation. Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC
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