Is that what we are supposed to believe?
I saw this answer to a previous question. MM, I thought this made so much sense. You hit the nail on the head.
2007-01-29 02:29:03 · 32 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't believe Jesus was god. I believe he was just a very good man. The people who wrote the bible tried to make us believe he was god. If people would just use their common sense they would understand that. The bible was written and translated by men who wanted to control other people. What is the best way to do this? Fear. Teach the people that the bible is law and anyone that disobeys it is going to hell and everyone will bow down to your superior knowledge.
2007-01-29 02:36:01 · answer #1 · answered by Fletcher 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God and Jesus are two separate beings. Life really wouldn't be right if God had died. The actual Greek definition of hell is mankind's common grave. God didn't create death. Satan developed it and Adam helped by sinning. As the first one to die, Adam went to hell=grave. If you are thinking hell is a burning hot place then none of this will make since. But if you're willing to do more research, you'll find that there is no such thing as hellfire with a red devil with a pitchfork. When you die, you die. But it is possible to have life after death but just not in heaven or hell.
2007-01-29 02:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by LA Law 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In Islam, Jesus (peace be upon him) is not God nor his son, he's a human prophet, and God has saved him from getting killed, and he's still alive but we don't know where and how. And he'll come back at the end of time.
I believe that you're point makes a lot of sense.
2007-01-29 02:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by Dee . 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let's say you are convicted of stealing a car. Your mother decides that she is going to go to the jail and do your sentence for you. You are scott free but really don't want to visit her because it reminds you of what she did. So you need to put a band aid on your soul. Would it sound a little like this? "Did mother sacrifice herself in order to save me from a conviction that was a result of her raising me wrong? ""It was her fault I stole the car in the first place. I was born a thief."
2007-01-29 02:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would make sense. Of people, That don't believe.
Jhn 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Jhn 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Jhn 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Jhn 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Jhn 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
God be with you..
2007-01-29 02:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by Daris G 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God didn't have to sacrifice anything for us. He could have left us to ourselves only allowing those without sin to enter Heaven. That would have made a very small line outside the pearly gates, no one would have qualified. God created the perfect sacrifice to take away our sins. What would it have meant if Moses had been the one to be our sacrifice? How could a sinful man pay the debt of another sinner? It took a perfect man to do that. Only God in the form of His Son qualified. Praise be to the Lord.
2007-01-29 02:35:55 · answer #6 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I do not believe it is all about what you are SUPPOSED to believe .... I believe it is all about what is best for YOU.... that way you have some religious freedom, some freedom of belief, rather than following something that sounds like mumbo-jumbo to you ...
That way life - and specifically YOUR life - will make some sense to you. That is what is important.
Peace & Love
2007-01-29 03:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is HOLY, we are not, we sin do we not? God can have nothing to do with sin, He is perfect, that is why He sent his beloved Son to die for us, only the blood of His perfect lamb would suffice. You have to first understand God in the old test. to see how he always demanded a blood sacrifice.
Heaven is for those who will spend eternity with God, hell is for those who reject Christ, God wants all to be saved but He gives us choices. Nowhere in the bible does it say we get to heaven on our own merits, we are not pure enough for that, faith in Jesus is the only way.
God created lots of things he doesn't plan for us to partake in--such as poison ivy-this is Gods created world--we are also His CREATION,-but NOT all are his children. TURN TO CHRIST.
2007-01-29 02:42:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's what Christian mythology says.
It's up to you to decide whether you believe it or not.
Hey, it's not any sillier than believing Odin hung on the world tree, Yggdrasil, for nine days, in order to get the runes and bring them to humankind.
It's not any sillier than believing Inanna descended to the underworld to rescue her lover, Tammuz.
It's not any sillier than believing Arianrhod cursed her son with never being able to have a name, a weapon, or a bride...yet he managed to get all three.
Well...you get the idea.
2007-01-29 02:35:18 · answer #9 · answered by catrionn 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The earth sacrifices itself by allowing humans to run free on it.
2007-01-29 02:36:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋