Dear Atheists

[Tonus]

I don't believe in a God that has foreknowledge of future events. Except for the fact that i think Jesus knew if he continued doing what he did, raising awareness for the kingdom of God: he would get killed.

Yes, but we would assume that God is intelligent and has foresight on levels far beyond our own. Even if he does not know how the future will unfold, he understood that the scenario he created in the garden could lead to rebellion. He might have been disappointed by their actions, but devastated? It was his experiment; he controlled all of the variables. The outcome was within the range of possibilities. He could have re-tooled things and run it again and hoped for a better outcome.

What i think of the distinction is that it has to do with sins, Jesus died by our sins, not for our sins. But we all know how some people interpret sin. The idea that  someone is obsessed with their sin, or the idea that sin is so cosmic and we should be worried about what sex you sleep with, constantly eager to claim what is a sin or not. I think sin is absence of love and when we don't love or be compassionate we are sinning. Am i doing what is lovely? John mentions that love has no greater place in the heart than to sacrifice ones life for their friends.

I'm not sure what you're saying here, it's a very different interpretation of sin and atonement than I recall from my time as a Christian or from the active Christians on this forum. And I'm not even sure where to start in order to get on the same page, so I'll just leave this unresponded to, if you don't mind.