Christ sacrificed Himself on the cross to erase your bad KARMA

[Stretch]

What does your book say about this kind of person?

They live an admirable life. They are honest and trustworthy and loyal to their family, their spouse and their friends.

Yet, because they have a functioning, rational brain, they reject the bullshit about a half man, half god. About virgin birth. About resurrection. Tell me about the fate of those thinking people.

It tells me those people are living peaceably in their lives and enjoying common grace. Their earthly reward is evident.
Whatever a man sows into this world, he will reap in this world.
The second sentence tells me they do not walk by faith. They're not concerned or have use for God or care about living eternally with Him anyway,
so God won't force them to do that.
There are no more sacrifices or earthly deeds or "tricks" to perform in order to gain eternal salvation.
We can not earn our way to God. That would be pride. We're all sinners, only saved by faith.
God said that he would make the offer of salvation so simple that even the "wise" of this world would stumble over it.
His kingdom is not of this world.

[dukkha]

the ignorant goyim

how ecumenical of you (not).. a little tolerance goes a long way - respect others beliefs and non-beliefs

[Adolf_Twitler]

[Micawber]

Can you do that for me too? Thx in advance...

[Ralph]

The Hebrews thought Jesus was a bullshit artist. Ratted him out to the Romans. Romans took up the Challenge. Jesus died, like thousands others, on a Cross. Looks like Hebrews were right.

Never mind the fact that JESUS was a Hebrew......so which HEBREW sect was right, Jesus and is orthodox group of Jewish fundamentalist (i.e, His followers/disciples) or those He called out and pointed out as deceivers of the Hebrew faith? As per the actual record found within the pages of the pages of the Holy Scriptures.....Jesus was the fundamental orthodox HEBREW not the radical you and the liars of Christ's day that were attempting to declare Jesus as the crazy radical. In FACT......all Christians were Jews for the first 10 years of Christianity.....the first gentile conversion did not occur until a decade after the Cross.

Look at the actual record. Jesus was a Jew from birth "......He came to His own and His own did not receive Him." -- John 1:11 Jesus declared that it was the Jews of His day (the deceivers) that did not belong to God, they did not believe He was the actual Messiah of prophecy....but their beliefs did not stop reality from existing, "But you (the deceivers pretending to be righteous Jews) do not believe because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you." -- John 10:26

Jesus came to fulfill Jewish Law and the Prophets.....not to destroy them. "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (the requirements of the old covenant...i.e., THE LAW)." -- Matt. 5:17

Jesus pointed out the hypocrisy of the Jewish leadership of His day....they were not the orthodox Jews they were pretending to be....they were the one's teaching their traditions to the people instead of actual Jewish Law.....He told them straightforward.....You demand others to do what you yourself refuse to do, follow the Law -- Matt. 7:12

Jesus taught His disciples to be INTOLERANT of the lies taught by the Jewish leadership of His day.....not because Jesus was the radical, but because the leadership was teaching their own traditions the traditions of men, not the actual Laws of God -- Matt. 16:6 and Matt. 16:12 Matthew 23 points out why Jesus called them deceivers instead or righteous men of God....to their faces He called them "....hypocrites, serpents, a brood of vipers.....full of lawlessness, He said they devoured widows and made long prayers just for show. He said they set aside the Laws of God in order to follow the traditions and laws of men (Matt. 11:22)

Jesus was not the radical.....in everything He did, He did so according to the Old Law of Moses, He was born under the law, born of a woman (Gal. 4:4). Jesus, was born a Jew of orthodoxy, He practiced orthodoxy His entire life, observing all that is in Jewish law, down to partaking of the sacrificial lamb dinner at the Passover (Luke 22:7-8).....sinning not one time under orthodox Jewish Law. He lived a perfect Jewish life void of sin. He was not radical....He came to nail the Old Law to His sacrificial cross, to fulfill the requirements of the old law in order to usher in a New Law a New Covenant between men and God, the covenant of grace where a sacrifice has already been made to God for the sins of all mankind.

[PostmodernProphet]

Didn't sat that.

The Christians I know commemorate Easter first and foremost as a celebration of the divine nature of the resurrection.

The OP made it a point to hold out the crucifixion of Good Friday as the central them of Easter Sunday. You would have to ask him why he consider's Good Friday's crucifixtion as the central and most important theme of Easter.

sorry if you misunderstood.......your sins were erased (see thread title) at the time of resurrection, not at the time of crucifixion (the sacrifice).......both are important.....however, both are meaningless to you if you refuse to believe.......

[PostmodernProphet]

you goyim have lower souls and lower intelligence, so it was easy for paul the conman to bring you into another pagan religion

doesn't answer my question......why is the old guy with the beard so ignorant.......he's only slightly smarter than the JPP's resident atheist semite........

[PostmodernProphet]

Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post

Obviously, the Christian god did not protect one of his/her/it’s major icons from destruction.

God has no icons.......I think he has emojis though.....

[Celticguy]

No offense man, but Karma and Christianity have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Christ died for the forgiveness of our sins, not "bad Karma". There's no such thing as Karma.

Happy Easter.

That which ye sow also shall ye reap...
Judge not lest ye be judged...

[PostmodernProphet]

The Christian idea of a virgin birth is derived from the verse in Isaiah 7:14

no......it comes from Matthew......

[PostmodernProphet]

Christianity claims that Isaiah chapter 53 refers to Jesus, as the "suffering servant."

yep.....

Isaiah 53 clearly [and ironically] refers to the Jewish people

nope.....
IS 5:

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;

and....

12For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

when did the Jews take on my sins for me?......

[PostmodernProphet]

the reform are goyim lite

atheists are Jewnots.......

[PostmodernProphet]

God promised redeemer for jews..you guys believe in a Messianic Age to come -
so cool it with the "it didn't come from Judaism"

Guano isn't Jewish......he's a semitic atheist.......

[Mr.Badguy]

Yes. It does. He honors his Word. He swears by Himself alone. He can not lie.
He's offered a free gift. Accept it or don't accept it. If we do not, we have judged ourselves.

A guy commits mass murders in a state with the death penalty, the guy's aware of this and all the state's judges take an oath to uphold that state's laws.
He's brought before one of those judges and the judge gives him the death sentence.
Did the judge condemn him to death? Or, did the guy bring that judgement upon himself?
The judge only proclaimed what the guy already knew would happen.
The judge honored his oath.

What a horrible analogy. For starters, judges don't make their own laws. A more apt analogy is an abusive husband/father that imprisons his family in the basement for not worshiping him. It doesn't matter that he warned them to worship him beforehand, it's still abuse.

[Stretch]

What a horrible analogy. For starters, judges don't make their own laws. A more apt analogy is an abusive husband/father that imprisons his family in the basement for not worshiping him. It doesn't matter that he warned them to worship him beforehand, it's still abuse.

No. I said the judges take an oath to uphold that state's laws.