(May 24, 2017 at 12:11 pm)alpha male Wrote: He's saving people on the basis of Christ's atonement on the cross. You can accept it if you want, but you don't have to if you don't want to. If you accept it, that's smart of you, but you didn't merit it yourself - Jesus did.
I agree. It is indeed smart to accept that based on the 'basis' of a book that's thousands of years old, written by different goatherders and then cobbled together and mistranslated repeatedly. All 'based on' hearsay.
And when a book that's thousands of years old claims to have been written by people inspired by God... and claims that the son of God came back from the dead and died for all our sins...
...it's certainly smart to believe that.
This is all of course assuming that by "smart" you in fact mean "retarded".