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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we don't have to worry about sin then why did Jesus have to be crucified? We are all sinners. Homosexual acts are sin as are premarital sex and extramarital sex... Selfishness ... Lying...stealing, gossiping, swearing with Gods name .  We all probably sin at least 10 times a day.  Having a homosexual wedding ceremony probably takes it to outright rebellion levels against God similar to having a satanic wedding ceremony , but I'm sure those people probably don't care .[/quote]

See... as someone who wasn't raised Christian, I never understood why Jesus has to be crucified in the first place. How does Jesus dying translate to forgiveness of sins? Couldn't God just forgive your sins himself? Why the son/middleman? What about all the thousands of other human beings who were crucified on a cross? Why did they have to die? What was the value in their suffering? Was their suffering less than Jesus, even though they underwent the same horrendous torture? 
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Ok, this is a theologically complex question, but my understanding is that "sin" has a cost.  It is like gravity in that it is part of the reality that God created us in.  God could just magically erase sin, I guess, and God could also let us zoom around like Superman but that is not the reality we live in.  God could also just make us love him and be perfect, but that is also not the reality we live in- we would just be robots in that case.  We have free will, and one of the results of that is sin, and the cost of that sin is death and judgment.  Jesus took on that penalty for us.  Suffering is the cost of free will and sin.  The world we live in is imperfect, which is why there can be great suffering all around us.  But our suffering is trivial in the larger scheme of things- that eventually we will live in Heaven with God forever, if we believe in Jesus.[/quote]

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