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Author Topic:   Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?
Greatest I am
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Message 1 of 169 (700302)
05-31-2013 1:09 PM


Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?
People who believe in the barbaric human blood sacrifice of the Triune Jesus/God must believe that the greatest force ever to exist decided that humans, lowly creations whom we are told are infinitely inferior to God, are somehow more important than God’s own life and that he would give it up for believers.
That is like a slave master dying in place of his slave. A rather silly notion to me.
Jesus preached that we should develop a humble character with little self-pride.
How is placing your own life above Triune Jesus/God’s showing a humble character as you think that he would die for you? That is taking self-pride to the maximum.
I think that those with good morals will know that no noble and gracious God would demand the sacrifice of a so called son just to prove it's benevolence.
Yet Christians who think they are moral will believe that God would do such a despicable thing as having his son killed even as scriptures say that God prefers repentance to sacrifice and does not believe in asking or accepting a ransom.
Is thinking that to believe that God would die for you the epitome of an inflated ego?
If not, what could possibly inflate an ego more than that?
Regards
DL

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Greatest I am
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Message 51 of 169 (701882)
06-27-2013 12:19 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Taq
06-06-2013 8:57 PM


Re: Who made who?
Tag
No argument but it is logical to create God in our image.
Most if not all the Gods that we have invented look like us and hate everyone we do. They were mostly androgynous but that is close to what the inventors wanted us to think.
Regards
DL

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Message 52 of 169 (701883)
06-27-2013 12:22 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by Iblis
06-16-2013 3:50 PM


Re: The Good News
Iblis
Thanks for the thumbs up.
Regards
DL

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Message 53 of 169 (701886)
06-27-2013 12:33 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by Faith
06-20-2013 5:04 AM


Re: The Trinity
Faith
If Jesus was human and scripture say that all humans are born in sin, and scriptures also say that Jesus had to learn by his mistakes to be perfected, then either Jesus could not die because he was without sin or he was a sinner like all of us as he too had to learn.
Seems that you want your cake and it too.
You cannot have it both ways unless you suspend logic and reason.
Regards
DL
Edited by Greatest I am, : No reason given.

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Message 162 of 169 (702521)
07-08-2013 3:12 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by Faith
06-27-2013 12:38 PM


Re: The Trinity
Faith
If you are going to ignore what scriptures say and just reiterate your view while ignoring your own bible then we cannot get anywhere. As I said, you want your cake and to eat it too child.
See ya.
Regards
DL

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Message 163 of 169 (702523)
07-08-2013 3:23 PM
Reply to: Message 68 by Coyote
06-27-2013 10:37 PM


Re: The Fall and "original sin"
Coyote
Thanks for that Atlas Shrugged quote.
Regards
DL

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