(September 25, 2014 at 4:18 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Yes. Like Rhythm, you seem to completely misunderstand. It's rhythms debt just as it is yours and mine. Because we're all flawed humans. It's prideful to think, as Rhythm does, that you can overcome that flawed state.
But he didn't say that.
Quote:Best you can do is accept your flaws and get on with it.
And had you stopped right there, you would understand the human condition.
Quote:What Christianity is offering here is not denial of those flaws, or dismissal or irresponsibility, but acknowledgement of the fact and a means to overcome it. Symbolically, the sacrifice is as extreme as it has to be. The debt has to match the deficit. It's pretty much the point of Jesus life, to match that deficit.
But did you stop there? Nope, you had to add nonsense to it.
Christianity doesn't offer a means to overcome anything, only the acceptance of some bizarre notion of debt.
Debt to whom? Debt for what?
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