intro2faith said:
Jesus went to die for us willingly. He wanted to! I know this is hard to comprehend, but it is true. It was just as heart wrenching for God to see His only begotten son suffer and die as it was for Jesus to actually endure it. But they both did it willingly. For us. Now, His blood covers us. If we choose to let it...
I understand that you believe Adam disobeyed God once, and the only way that God could forgive Adam and all of his decendents was to send his son, a sinless human/god, to be tortured, to make it possible to forgive us, but then we must ask for forgiveness, and must ask Jesus to come into our heart and become our Personal Lord and Savior (TM) and be baptized, and....
And you may believe that.
I simply don't agree.
If I simply visualize the blood of Jesus covering me, I think not of myself in a big white robe, but of Carrie. It's very barbaric.
I have forgiven those who have transgressed against me, even those who refuse to apologize. (Some christians here say that they only need to forgive those who ask). I don't require that I have a child and kill it to be okay with my neighbor again.
I simply forgive.
Jesus forgave people of their sin before his crucifiction.
I question if the crucifiction was necessary, or if it ever happened.
The idea of someone going to hell and coming back can be seen in legends written before the bible, like Hercules going to Hades, and returning.
So, I question it.
Most Christians don't think about it. They grow up learning about it, accept it, and rarely think about it. But if you step away, it sounds as barbaric as Abraham and Isaac.
Christianity seems obsessed by blood and sacrifice.