What Exactly Are Sins?

[popsthebuilder]

God's nature is who He is, and God never strays from his nature, thus He is holy.

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Does that mean that you are holy for the same reasons?  

No man is holy. Not even the pope. Don't get it twisted.

[popsthebuilder]

I had some thoughts about Jesus and sin.

Am I supposed to believe Jesus dies for my sins, or to accept the "payment" he has made on my behalf?

If we give the historical records the benefit of the doubt, I could believe that a guy called Jesus got crucified, and in his mind he thought he was dying for my sins. However, I can't accept that this act has any actual real meaning because as far as I'm concerned there is no debt to pay to anyone, nor does the currency involved (sins) actually exist. The only way it could exist is if you kept track of your own "sins" using the bible, and since they've all been paid for in advance, it wouldn't seem to matter when you do sin. It's like an open bar for which the tab has been pre paid.

Of course, I don't think this was the original story. I think the human sacrifice was meant to stop animal sacrifices, so that in the future people could apologize to god without having to also kill an animal. But the story mutated beyond recognition from that point.

It's not my fault what weird ideas someone might have in their head about why they are dying. More likely, he got crucified because he became too annoying.

Good points.

Annoying, or a danger to the corrupt powers powers that be and annoying?

[Cyberman]

@ Randy: Otherwise this ^ happens.

[popsthebuilder]

That fits with a verse in Romans (I could look it up, but no one here would care anyway) which basically stated that we all (addressing Christians in particular since it was written to Christians in Rome) sin because we all fall short of God's plan for our lives.

If you have to follow someone else's plans for your life do you really have a life?  If they stop telling you what to do will you be able to think for yourself?  If God has a plan for everyone's life then he should have simply lived them himself and not bothered with people at all.  

God's plan is the plan of existence to our best ability. Evolution of one consciousness called existence. Humans have slowed there own evolution to a crawl due to lack of direction in regards to all existence.

[popsthebuilder]

Sin is what organized religions invented to make people fear and through that obey.

But for example so called deadly sins are the ones which are most humane things. So when you rule out wrath, vanity, lust, gluttony, lust, sloth and envy from humans all you have is pile of same shaped and coloured legos which are there for you to build up to anything you like.

Not anything you like. The most potent existence for the cause of good as opposed to bad.

[popsthebuilder]

I don't care. That term is not relevant in my life.

How about these terms;
Chaos
Perpetual waste?

[Randy Carson]

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I guess even old threads aren't resurrected in this forum!

Thanks for the info.

[Longhorn]

Even masturbating into Jesus' nail holes ?

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Damn buddy. In that statement you felt sadistic joy. That is the manipulative nature of the evil that is part of us all.

Duuuuude. 's called a joke.

[popsthebuilder]

Damn buddy. In that statement you felt sadistic joy. That is the manipulative nature of the evil that is part of us all.

Duuuuude. 's called a joke.

Yeah, just like your harmless avatar? It is called willful ignorance. Jokes don't have a negative effect. Pain and hate under the guise of a joke are still pain and hate.

[Longhorn]

Duuuuude. 's called a joke.

Yeah, just like your harmless avatar? It is called willful ignorance. Jokes don't have a negative effect. Pain and hate under the guise of a joke are still pain and hate.

Um....my avatar is a close up of a band logo. What's so bad about it?
I doubt there was any pain and hate behind that joke, dude. And even if there was, how exactly does their sheer existence hurt anyone?