Everybody believes or supposed to believe in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, that is not the message that saves. It is understanding the meaning of that message that saves today.
But rejoicing is the exhibit of that interstate of mind, because no longer do we have to strive to attain and maintain God’s acceptance on the basis of who we are and what we can do. No longer are our sin debts held against us, no longer does the death penalty for sin hang over us.
What sin? God created humans right? I didn't tell God to create me. So why do I have sin? Oh geez these religious freaks.
Christianity developed the notion of original sin. So extreme are the psalmist’s guilt feeling that he sees himself as sinful even before birth. Evil is a product of human behavior, not a principal inherent in the cosmos. It is the power of moral choice alone, that is Yahweh like and having that good and bad knowledge is no guarantee that one will choose or incline towards the good. The very action that brought Adam and Eve a Yahweh like awareness of their mortal autonomy, was an action that was taken in opposition to Yahweh. Yahweh knows that, that human beings will become like Yahweh, knowing good and bad; it’s one of the things about Yahweh, he knows good and bad, and has chosen the good. Human beings, and only human beings are the potential source of evil, responsibility for evil will lie in the hands of human beings. Evil is represented not as a physical reality, it’s not built into the structure of Eden, evil is a condition of human existence, and to assert that evil stems from human behavior.
What a marvelous plan God had for us! God has kept the fingerprints of the guilt-worthy off of the righteousness he designed for the guilt-worthy.
Ringo didn't just play the drums, he understood the drums. The issue is not our sins today, most people think sin is the issue, so they are looking for ways to keep short accounts. The issue is: In order to dwell with God in eternity future; we have to be as righteous as God, his justice will not allow nothing other, and until you believe what happened to the sin debt Christ died for concerning yourself, you are not placed into Christ.
Today people think they have to ask God to forgive them for the sins that God is no longer charging to their account in the first place. Ministers of righteousness would have people believe God is not totally reconciled in his mind. Satan and his forces want to keep sin on the table of God’s justice today, as much in the Age of Grace as he has in the other ages.
Props on the anti-Original Sin optimism there newidentity/pitchingthesameol'shit. Be advised however that the guy you're directing it to has experienced his own personal epiphany inside a goat's vagina (not that there's anything wrong with that).
God did for us what we could never do for ourselves, he took all of our performance off of us and put it onto Jesus Christ and judged him for our faulty performance.
The giants, these abnormal beings, their destruction during the flood was necessary for the preservation of the human race, and for the faithfulness of Yahweh’s Word (Gen. 3:15).
Green Hornet was a great show, Bruce Lee made that show. But flesh wants to say if I broke it, I can fix it. God is not asking us to turn from anything to be saved, he is asking us to believe Christ accomplished salvation for us and we are simply to believe it. Christ did it all, there is nothing left for us to do. God did all the giving, we do only all the receiving. Faith is taking God at his word concerning what his son did on our behalf.
