TO ALL OF YOU CHRISTIAN PASTORS, YOUTH LEADERS, STUDENTS OF THEOLOGY, AND OTHER WISE REALLY SMART PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH Jesus

[webmdave]

By Dano

 

Exactly how does someone getting murdered, by being crucified, make me suitable or deserving to go to heaven, and if this is a requirement by God, that does qualify me to pass through the pearly gates, why do I have to believe it.

 

If God wanted and needed a sacrifice to himself before he will let anybody into heaven, then when the Romans finished killing Jesus, didn't we all have a ticket to paradise?

 

God supposedly knows which of us will believe it, and those who won't. What has that got to do with the deal? Once he gets his born of a virgin, boy murdered, then he should be happy. A deal is a deal.

 

Now I'm not going to ask you to explain how Jesus, and God, and the holy ghost can all three be the same being, or how Jesus knowing he was divine, and immortal could really die, because it would unfairly burden your intellect, so I will stick with the original question.

 

What has my belief got to do with the whole thing? God got what he wanted, so we all should be admitted to heaven! Case closed!

 

RIGHT?

 

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[R. S. Martin]

TO ALL OF YOU CHRISTIAN PASTORS, YOUTH LEADERS, STUDENTS OF THEOLOGY, AND OTHER WISE REALLY SMART PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH Jesus

 

I may be a student of theology and my level of "smartness" may be debatable, but one thing I DON'T have is a relationship to Jesus. Your question is the very thing that forced me to deconvert against my will and desires. I am exiting the "student of theology" role in a few months. This study helped me sift the information and evidence and it comes up lacking. So there!

 

 

 

 

[1oddmanout]

My group asked me tonight what about my xhurch-going; when they heard that I don't even try to attend church anymore (many legal restrictions), and never really worshipped (nor really prayed for that matter), they were astounded, yet RubySera said it best--i never really did have a relationship with a Jesus or a Christ, and comments I made, such as "God-cidences" were just applying religious phrases to whatever event occurred.

And I don't mind that I don't mind having discovered that I never had a religion in the first place; it was all a sham for me to have an identity, to belong to a group. I need to have a healthy relationship to a One, myself, before I can belong to a group. Thankfully, I am on that path now, and growing.