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Out of context: Reply #93
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Kes, I fear that debating the "issues" you raise would do much for generating heat, but little for generating any light. I have presented facts. Feel free to do the research yourself, if you care enough. Look into the manuscripts: Codex Siniaticus, Codex Vaticanus, and Dead Sea Scrolls, for starters. Study the nature of the specific fulfilled prophecies I mentioned above and when those prophecies were made. Also, get familiar with the science of textual criticism. Finally, please don't feel intimidated by Christians who know what they believe and why they believe it. Sometimes the media caricatures you see are not true.
As for the plan of redemption. All world religions share a common theme: performance to earn a deitie's favor. This appeals to human nature - we want something to do with it. Christianity, in contrast, offends human nature by telling us we are bankrupt in our sin and that a loving God reached down to us in the person of Jesus, who lived a sinless life in exchange for our sin-steeped lives and payed a penalty that we deserved to pay. And that all we have to do to have the perfect nature of Christ imputed to us, is to accept it as a free gift... absolutely free and apart from performance. Why? Because God's standard is perfection and only Christ met that standard. This, is the Good News. :)