@auroreII,
auroreII wrote:
The scripture says
John 15:13 King James Version (KJV) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 10:18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Matthew 26::53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
He is saying he only had to pray and God would send his angels to deliver him from his enemies, but Jesus wasn't in this for himself. He chose to lay down his life for others. - He gave his life in exchange so all those who believed in him could have everlasting life. Because Christ was sinless he did not deserve to die. He was raised from the dead. He didn't deserve to die. Justice would say that he was owed something for what he unjustly suffered. Revenge? No, he chose us. He chose us when he chose to go to the cross. Being sinners we die for our sins, but Jesus gave his life in exchange for ours so we can be raised with him in newness of life. That is the message of Easter.
Yes. A disgusting and immoral message. If you wish to discuss the immorality of your belief, I am here for you.
Most Christians do not care about their selling their moral soul to Satan.
On Jesus dying for you.
It takes quite an inflated ego to think a god would actually die for you, after condemning you unjustly in the first place.
You have swallowed a lie and don’t care how evil you make Jesus to keep your feel good get out of hell free card.
It is a lie, first and foremost because, like it or not, having another innocent person suffer or die for the wrongs you have done, --- so that you might escape responsibility for having done them, --- is immoral. To abdicate your personal responsibility for your actions or use a scapegoat is immoral.
You also have to ignore what Jesus, as a Jewish Rabbi, would have taught his people.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Deuteronomy 24:16 (ESV) "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Psa 49;7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
There is no way that you would teach your children to use a scapegoat to escape their just punishments and here you are doing just that.
Jesus is just a smidge less immoral than his demiurge genocidal father, and here you are trying to put him as low in moral fibre as Yahweh.
Regards
DL