The Reasons why "Just Following Jesus" Doesn't work

[Chad32]

Well, when you can get all the jews, christians, and muslims to agree on what exactly god's message was, please get back to me. I highly doubt you know, because people have been killing each other for thousands of years over what that message is. No matter what you want, you can find some passage in the holy books to justify it. He doesn't have high standards. He has impossible standards that can't be met, then demands us beg him to forgive us for not doing the impossible.

Did you just say Jesus' mother Mary was a fantasy? We know Yahweh tampers with free will, because it's right in Exodus. He hardens the pharoah's heart to keep him from letting Moses go before Yahweh has a chance to kill all the firstborns. I'm pretty sure killing people tampers with free will also. If you get killed for stepping out of line, you aren't free. I doubt the guy who picked up sticks on the wrong day of the week was really hurting anyone, and just needed to die because he was busy doing more important stuff the rest of that week.

If you manage to meet an impossible standard, you can be perfect too. Isn't that special?

Apparently Yahweh wants people in heaven that are just trying to avoid hell, because you can repent on your death bed. You can do whatever you want in life, as long as you remember to say a certain prayer to a certain god right before you die. The only motivation you might have to care to crack open a bible is that your death may be too sudden to do that. I hope when you gt to heaven, you remember to hang out with Jeffrey Dahmer, and also check if Hitler is up there too. He also believed in Jesus. God with Us on Nazi belt buckles, and all that. Personally I'd rather hang out with people who are trying to do good in the world, whether they worship me or not. Yahweh has different priorities, though.