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Not exactly. First, Jesus didn't bring down the 10 commandments. Moses brought down the 10 commandments. Jesus' take on the 10 commandments is at Matthew 22:34-40, where basically he prioritizes them into "love God, love your neighbor."  Honestly, people, if you don't have the first clue about the facts, you really shouldn't be opining in public.

Second, it has been explained to you before that there's a broad diversity among Christians as to what happens to murderers and non-Christian children. Probably the vast majority of Christians believe that non-Christian infants will go to heaven.

But you knew that. You've read that before. It just doesn't fit into your hate narrative, so you ignore it.

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Wait a minute. So you are saying the 10 commandments are wrong and Jesus didn't believe in them?

People have different reasons for believing in religion, most of them pick and choose what to believe based how how convenient it is for them at the present moment. If one can pick and choose to believe the meaning and consequence of something as fundamental as original sin, then what truth is there in any text or authority on the Christian God? The concept of original sin is central to Christianity. Without original sin, Jesus's crucifixion was meaningless, and therefore there can be no salvation through him. It may be popular to believe that "we are cool with people who don't believe", but that view is contradictory to the very concept of Christianity. How can it ever be okay if everyone was born with original sin, and if the only path to redemption is accepting Jesus as the savior?[/quote]

Yup. [b]Jesus didn't believe in a lot of what's in the Old Testament[/b]:  he got rid of dietary laws and eye-for-eye justice, just for starters. That's not picking and choosing, that's following Jesus' revolution to the letter.

Also, you don't get original sin. I'm not going to try to set you straight (because you probably won't bother to read it, and you'll be back here tomorrow saying incorrect things again). However, you should know that you've got it very wrong wrt original sin and non-Christian infants.[/quote]

Except for the part about Homosexuality -- Jesus  really believed that part,  at least according to some (not all) Christians.  Also the part about slaves.  A lot of Christian slave holders thought Jesus approved of it, but modern Christians changed their minds.

As for original sin, sounds like Christians have different ideas about that too.   It's almost like people make up what they feel most comfortable with[/quote]

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