(June 27, 2013 at 5:53 pm)Godschild Wrote: Post like the four above this one is what derails an OP, people parroting the same ol' tired things, why can't you go to scripture and try to disprove what Christians believe.
I don't know if all Christian denominations agree on the finer points of topics like the ransom sacrifice. As I recall, the reasoning of Jehovah's Witnesses was that when Adam & Eve sinned, humanity lost perfection. Jesus sacrificed a perfect human life so as to have a marker with god; since he had done nothing to deserve death, he was owed a perfect human life now. He offers that marker on behalf of anyone who places faith in him and in that sacrifice.
That explanation makes more sense if you believe (as the JWs do) that god and Jesus are two separate beings and not just different sides of the same being. I am assuming that other Christian denominations would believe something similar to the above but with enough differences to fit in with the idea that Jesus *is* god.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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