Sinful Believers Wearing Their Sins

[freedomfromforum]

That's right, your buddy Jesus made sin for him, so that he could use it against us.

I'm not sure how He uses it against us.

By telling me that I am a sinner from birth and that I need him from the get-go, or the sentence is eternity for me in a hell the he also created if I don't agree with his pronouncement of judgment. Extortion much? AND for something no one can prove I'm responsible for - I just inherit it (thanks god, but i reject THAT inheritance).

Now, say I wronged you, something awful. Whatever it is, it is done, and the consequences have been laid out by the community. Does it mean anything that I come to seek your forgiveness? Just coming to apologize out of my own free will. Does that mean anything?

Your own free will? It is most likely that "your will" like mine, and most decent people, has been subconsciously shaped to agree with the social model over millions of years of evolution. Your 'sense' of where that comes from requires no more than your biological agreement with your current evolutionary composition.

On a side note; I would be inclined to accept your apology for the same reason that you made it - because our chemicals make us feel best when we agree with their ordered structure and function.