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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I struggle with this concept. Can someone explain in the way that is infallible against any counterargument?

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I admit, I’m a lapsed Lutheran and I haven’t taken the Bible or the stories in it literally since I was about 14, so stories about “sin” and “the choices Adam and Eve made” don’t move my needle, nor does the concept of eternal damnation. That’s dumb and if we’re going down that path, let’s go back to debating how many angels can dance on a pin.

I also realize that when I say the Apostles Creed, I don’t agree with much of what is said. I don’t believe God is a man, that Mary was a Virgin, or that she was conceived by the Holy Spirit any more than the rest of us. I also don’t believe he died on the cross; my personal belief is that a miracle took place - that he survived five puncture wounds in the Iron Age.

But what Jesus taught - and what dozens if not hundreds of other itinerant “preachers” at the same time and place as Jesus taught - was radical kindness and radical justice. I don’t think he was the first. I don’t even think he “redeemed” humanity; we can’t look at the devastation wrought by the Catholic Church, for example, and say, yes, that’s been a net benefit to the world! But Jesus did have a message that we should be caring for one another, that if we were kind enough, addressed inequalities enough and worked to better the world, the kingdom of heaven would be ours here on earth instead of waiting for death.

There are thousands of counter arguments against what I just said. [/quote]

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