From the pitcure I've seen of him,I think it was having a bad hair day and don't even get me started on his chosen type of foot wear.....He looked more like a tramp or dosser if you ask me.....any one that followed him were after drugs most likely...:)
Christians believe Jesus needed to be tortured to death to atone for the sins of humanity.
But, according to the theology, it only works if the sinner sincerely repents and turns to belief in God, Jesus and the resurrection. This was supposedly God's way of offering a path to salvation for humanity.
Frankly, I don't understand the psychology of this idea. It strikes me as madness.
It doesn't work - the belief does not cause Christians to behave any better than people of other faiths. Think of the rampant daily hypocrisies of ordinary believers. Over the centuries and around the world, Christians have probably committed far more atrocities that people of any other faith. Think back over the pogroms, holocausts, trials by torture, persecutions and massacres of witches, heretics, scientists, Jews, Gypseys, Muslims and First Nations peoples - millions of people subjected to such horrors in the name of faith. The recent evidence of child abuse rampant in the Catholic Church around the world - 60% of Christian Brothers teachers, 15% of teaching fathers in other Catholic sects - shows that the evil is institutionally entrenched. The Pope has still made no serious attempts to create reform.
Once again you've hit on the argument that disproves - If God was omnipotent he had the power to prevent cruelty and suffering. If he was good, he would have. All the rest flows from these two.
This post was edited by inky at July 17, 2019 2:47 PM MDT
It is not a free pass. It is a about a person changing their heart and their behavior. Not begging and claiming sorry. This is why only God can judge, only He know a person true heart.
Jon 