(June 27, 2013 at 5:19 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Just one.
That's all.
Why does blood sacrifice make anything better?
Just to clarify the question, Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross so that our sins may be forgiven. How's that work exactly? What's the cause and effect between a godman bleeding on a cross and my being forgiven by the same god for the sins I've committed? Why does the blood he shed somehow atone for my sins?
How does God give us His divinity?
In God's presence there is no choice. We would be robots, unworthy of His Glory.... or want to take what He has, as Lucifer did.
Free will was the key. And the stumbling block. To make up for that, AND FOR LOVE, God came as Jesus to reconcile us to Him. And to pay the price in BLOOD for free will. We also pay the price of sin through our own physical death.
We were cursed and died at the hand of God. He was cursed and died at the hands of man. We deserved to die because of our sins. Jesus was sinless, but died anyway. That is what broke the curse against us sinners. Because, DEATH WAS ONLY MEANT FOR SINNERS! "Jesus became sin, to put sin to death on the cross."
Our Faith and Love for Him, completes the process. For that Faith we will LIVE spiritually and receive His Divinity... BE LIKE GOD!
But all this has no meaning to those without the Holy Spirit!
Jesus said: "humans can do NOTHING on their own."
Quis ut Deus?