@ fedos picking out verses from the bible does not constitute proof for a muslim. i was talking about thinking logically about it. see why did jesus have to "humble" himself before the father and not vice versa. i (and probably most people) can come up with a huge list of questions that contradict trinity and cannot be explained rationally.
what you are now going to do is tell me something like 'no no jesus was a purehearted being and it made no difference to him to be crucified'
which is basically just inventing some new characteristics and dynamics of jesus to rebut. if not that then coming back to 'god in his infinite wisdom decided'
stop deluding urself, your religion is incompatible with natural thought.
Well, I'm not denying that truly believing in the God of the Bible and his Son Jesus Christ takes divine intervention. In fact, Jesus said it this way.
'No man can come to me, except the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day.' St John 6: 44.
We are all born in sin and with sin nature, and it blinds us to the reality of God. Without God revealing himself to us then we are going to think that the things of God are foolishness.
'For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For after that in wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chose the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
That no flesh should glory in his presence.' I Corinthians 1: 18-29.
^ Christians don't believe in 1 god though, they're pagans I think cos they believe in 2 gods jesus and god.
hmm so he's always existed with God, how did he become into being like who is his mother that conceived him and gave him as a son to God? If God doesn't reproduce then how can he have the relation of a son, isn't a son from the reproduction of a father? so how can he be a son of god if he wasn't reproduced by God :hmm: cos the relation isn't there.
What happened in the incarnation is, Jesus literally stepped down from the throne of heaven and entered into the womb of Mary.
^ so jesus gave up his divine powers and became like a lowly animal human that has human desires and needs food and sleep and has to use the bathroom?
and he did this why? :hmm: to pay for our sins? but I find that to be unjust why should someone else pay for my mistakes. It's like a murderer getting away scotch free cos some1 has paid for the crime of the murder and, that is unjust.
He did it to deliver us from the power that sin has over our lives. When you become Christian, God sets you free from your sins, so that you can begin to live a life of holiness. He who lived perfectly shed his blood (his life) on a cross and when you accept him you receive his perfect righteousness (because God demand's perfection from us) and are then delivered from all the things that you were bound with as a sinner. It doesn't mean that you are impervious from committing another sin, because the writer of Hebrews says that those Christians who do sin will fall under the discipline of an Almighty God. And I should know, having been suffering severally for sins that I committed way back in the summer of 2002.
^ and is God that limited in his forgiveness that he can't forgive unless something is sacraficed for him? if that's the case Humans are more forgiving and mercifull than god cos we don't require a sacrafice to forgive our children. We don't require our children to shed blood so we can forgive them where as god does so I guess we're more forgiving than god.
God is a Holy God. He is a God of perfect justice and perfect mercy. In the cross, these two extremes are met. The cross is perfect justice because God punishes sin to the fullest (Jesus bore God's wrath on the cross). And the cross is perfect mercy because God redeems all those who come to him from a life of bondage to sin.
and since jesus has paid for our debt with his blood, how come we can't do what ever we want now?? I mean Jesus has paid for our debt with his blood right so we don't have to worry about the debt of sin now cos it's been paid for with Jesus's blood right? .
If you, as a professing Christian, get 'saved' and then start living any old kind of lifestyle that you want because you are now 'saved' then that is evidence that you were never saved to begin with. God is a constant in the lives of Christians. He is always disciplining and reproving us. If you screw up, then get ready to be chastened sore for it (I should know, I have been chastened sore for seven years now.)
If you as a Christian will not be disciplined by God then he will just end your life. There is no such thing as a conintually carnal (sinful) Christian.
also why would god create us as sinful and then expect us to pay for the debt of sin when he made us this why?
I don't know why God allowed the devil to tempt Eve and thus Adam and bring about the fall. Our world was originally perfect, with one requirement that Adam and Eve had to obey, not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. If they wouldn't have eaten from it, our world would not be fallen. God has a purpose for everything that he does though, he doesn't just do random things without backing them up with a purpose, he's not like us.
^it's like me creating an alarm clock and asking it to pay for being noisy and waking me up in the morning, it's only doing what is in it's nature so how can I expect it to pay for it's debt when I made it that way?
God doesn't want us to pay for our sins. He wants us to come into a loving relationship with his Son Jesus Christ. He wants to forgive us and set us on the path of rightouesness and holiness, without which no man will see the Lord.
^there's no human being who is sin free so why would God expect us to pay for a design flaw that is his fault? the design flaw being sin that he doesn't accept.
This is true. There is no human being who is sin free. But Christians are no longer bound by sin the way that a sinner is, in all areas of life. We are all born in sin and with sin nature, a
natural inclination to do that which is wrong. When you accept Christ, God changes your nature, you are allowed to partake of his divine nature and you can begin to live a
supernatural life. It is natural to live a life a slave to sin, it is supernatural to be able to live above it. This is one of the major differences between Christianity and other religions.
if God wanted sinless individuals in his kingdom why didn't he just create sinless individuals :hmm: instead of making them with faults and then asking them to pay for those faults.
All those who are redeemed by the blood of Jesus will live perfect and sinless lives in the kingdom of God. As I said, I don't know why God allowed the fall to happen in the first place, but he did, and I know he has a puprose behind it. I don't know, for instance, why God didn't intervene on my behalf and stop me from making the mistake that I did which caused me to sin when I first accepted him, but he did, and now I trust that there is a puprose involved.
I still don't understand why God contradicted himself when his message from the start of time was "there's 1 god worship me alone without any partners"
you quoted passages from the bible but they don't really make sense to me and I don't believe the bible to be the word of God as I mentioned earlier, the word of God is perfect and divine, therefore it doesn't need correcting by men to be made free from errors. However that isn't the case with the bible, errors are corrected then new versions are released, how can god make errors and contradictions in his revelation :hmm:
Well, we have scrolls like the Dead Sea Scrolls and whatnot, from many, many years ago, that confirms the message of scripture. And the New Testament is more documented and verified than any other ancient manuscript.
also whose interpretation of the bible do you follow?? as you know a text can be interpretated in many different ways, we could both read the same thing and interpret it, in completely different ways, so who's interpretation of the bible do you follow?
your own interpretation?
your vicars interpretation?
your dad or mums interpretation?
You're supposed to have a good number of commentaries to read alongside reading the Bible, but the Holy Spirit is the one who leads you into all truth while you are learning about God.