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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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God came to earth as man.  Jesus was the God-man. His first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding ( I love that).  In the old covenant between God and man , God required sacrifices from his people in repentance for breaking the Ten Commandments .  He doesn't just forgive because he wants people to care enough about him to want to obey him.  People failed so much that God being a loving God and not wanting everyone to go to hell gave the gift of himself as a one time brutal sacrifice for all the sin of the world .  All he asked was to believe in him and care enough to know how desperate your situation is.  That's the cut off... If you don't care enough about God to even accept a free gift of salvation , then you are screwed when you die.[/quote]

This sounds like any mythological story the claims to be fact - Hindu Gods, Greek Gods, ancient Mayan or Egyptian gods. I get that it's a story woven as truth, and when you repeat the story in your own community a million times, you just believe it as so. But it sounds so non-nonsensical. Just like I'm sure Shinto stories sound to a Christian. Interesting stories, but all equally artificial. [/quote]

It's actually a lot different than other faiths.  Other faiths say do this and you will be enlightened do that and you will be in heaven.  Christianity says "done" it is finished, you just have to accept and open the gift.[/quote]

What was the gift given by the thousands of other human beings crucified on the cross? What I don't get, is Jesus is always singled out, as if his suffering was distinct. But it really wasn't - many others underwent the *exact* same torture and humiliation. So what did they die for? Why is their suffering not significant? [/quote]

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