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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP- It's a story.  A beautiful story of unconditional love and sacrifice.  The idea that a smitey, all-powerful God would send his "son" to earth to suffer a horrible death is something most logical people understand as ridiculous.  That line of reasoning makes no sense. God (who is perfect and incapable of creating anything but perfection) somehow created you "bad" so that you could be "saved" by the suffering and death of his son?  That was the only way?  Really?  Again, there is no logic in that.

Jesus was the Christ in the sense that he came to earth as a perfect expression of God to show us the way.  As a Christian, he is my way-shower.  Other faiths have their way-showers.  We are all expressions of our Creator (our Source).  Jesus was just a really, really good expression of God in human form.  He preached love, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, and most of all kindness.  He allowed himself to be crucified even though he wasn't guilty.  What greater love is there?  He freely accepted death when he likely would have been set free had he been willing to stop teaching.

His example is one we should all follow - unconditional love for people we don't even know.  Love for people who want to hurt us.  Love for our enemies.  Love for every being on this planet.  God didn't send Jesus to "die for your sins".  You were created in love, perfectly.  You don't need to be saved from "sin".  Salvation is the Christian term for enlightenment - most just don't know it.

Just my opinion as a Christian in a more progressive Christian church.[/quote]
Where did the poster say he or she has never sinned? 
So you've never sinned?[/quote][/quote]

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