God & Jesus
God & Jesus
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- gramme0
flashbender, to answer your question:
Exactly. It's pointless. It is impossible to live a *truly* righteous life if a person is not redeemed, changed from the inside out by the Holy Spirit. All of our good works are ashes and dust, because not one of us is capable of attaining perfection. Perfection is required to enter heaven. Thankfully, there is a perfect advocate, who literally acts as the protection and priest between man and God.
If you don't like the sound of that, fine; but it is in the Bible, not my interpretation. These things are pretty clear. One can't sneer at these concepts and still claim to be a fan of Jesus in any way. We can't have our cake and eat it too, in this case.
- +1 but I am sure you will get flamed :)designbot
- so be it, I know those are fighting words.gramme
- I admire the steadfastness of your faith, but I do not share it.flashbender
- that's fine with me, hopefully we can continue being cordial :)gramme
- of course. I have no problem with anyone. As someone said eariler, I know people of all different faiths and almost >>flashbender
- all of them are fine people. I have nothing against Christians, I have just decided that organized religion is not for me.flashbender
- anyone.********