RE: How long will Christians wait for Jesus?
February 23, 2017 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2017 at 12:44 pm by brewer.)
(February 23, 2017 at 9:45 am)SteveII Wrote: Except you are grossly mischaracterizing Christianity's doctrine on humans to make your point (straw man). The correct view is that God sees humans of infinite worth and so warranted the ultimate sacrifice of death on a cross to redeem them. Not exactly teaching that we are "worthless sinners" is it? So the disrespect you are feeling is of your own making and of course is not causing "harm".
So if you redeem infinite worth what do you get? Infinite infinite worth?
If humans are of infinite worth why would they need redemption? So the infinite worth won't be thrown into the incinerator by your god?
(February 23, 2017 at 11:32 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: It seems to me that people do not accept Our Lord and Savior as fire insurance. They want deliverance in the here and now. They want to be free from the bondage of sin - alcoholism, porn addiction, worry, depression, empty materialism, anger, self-conceit - and a deep seated longing to find redemption by helping others.
And why do humans need a god to change? What if they are already free from your ideas of bondage?
Wait, I know. Everybody is flawed and needs correcting, the correction that only a god can provide.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
