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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By analogy: say there is a bank that opens in your neighborhood that offers a special ticket to get to heaven. So you open and account and they tell you “cool, you just need to earn 500,000 units of goodness and then you can get your ticket to heaven. These are the things you have to do to earn units (help your neighbor, call your mom, etc.). The catch is that you lose units when you do all these things you shouldn’t (lie, overeat, gossip, swear, hate, envy, etc.).” So you work for a few weeks and you earn some units, but then you lose a bunch too. After a few exhausting months, you check your account and you actually owe the bank now. There is obviously no way you will ever get that ticket.
So now imagine Jesus is the only person who ever earned that ticket to heaven. And now he literally signs you onto his account, you have a debit card with your name on in, and every penny in that account is yours (including heaven). That’s redemption.[/quote]

I dislike this analogy because it’s like God set the price (500,000) to begin with, knowing you’ll never get there, and the he paid it himself and wants us to praise him?  He caused the problem!!!   :D  I like the wounded animal analogy better.[/quote]
He didn’t really set a price though. The whole problem rests on the enormous gulf between an infinitely holy God and sinful humans. The Old Testament is kind of like God trying to help people come “up” to Him (which will never, ever work, we just can’t be that holy) and Jesus was Him coming “down” to us. [b]I think a lot of the confusion over Jesus’ death would disappear if people truly understood how holy God is and how desperately, in-our-bones we love sin more than Him[/b].[/quote]

Except some people aren't confused or bereft of understanding -- They simply don't believe.[/quote]

I think we love God more than anything innately, but in a desire to experience a greater manifestation of Thad we operated in a principle that put HIM into a locked up account. There are clues and paths to help us unlock him so he both respects free will without compromising his principles and the rules of law that continue to reveal themselves.

Alpha and Omega, not on a line or in a sequence but existing  in one space in time. That we all get access too.

Some desire edification (transforming closer to universal agape love)
Others desire relief (succumbing to temporary fleshly pleasure that scratch’s the itch but doesn’t remove the itchiness)[/quote]

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