RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
February 12, 2014 at 10:24 am
(February 11, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: The idea is Christ supposed to free people into a direct relationship with God, and so free you from sin, death and all that business. So it's not technically supposed to enslave anyone.Nice of him to offer to 'free' humanity from a bad deal that he imposed on us before we were even born. That's what any sane person would want, to spend eternity with the person who screwed them over for no other reason than that he could.
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