(April 17, 2014 at 8:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Hence the term "hypothetical". That said, to paraphrase Voltaire - he won't mind - if JC didn't exist (and he almost certainly didn't) it would be necesary to invent him. I'm just entertaining a curiosity here.
It was already in God's plan but, hypothetically, I guess if Jesus didn't die to atone for our sins we would have had to wait a bit longer for the one that would. Two thousand years were already long enough, but the Jews are still waiting.
