(September 22, 2014 at 11:31 am)Rhythm Wrote: I'll take the third option - that jesus simply wasn't. As such he didn't die to save us from sin -or- religion, and should we desire salvation from either (in however stretched a form you take either concept) - no hero is required. I would actually propose that such a hero would interfere with that salvation, not facilitate or accomplish it.
So you would like to live under Moses's Laws? I understand. Yes eye for an eye is much better than Love thy neighbors. Gotcha.

Belief in a Cruel God makes a Crueler Man. Thomas Paine with minor edit crueler instead of cruel.