I recently went to a religious a event with a family member at Easter time.
the religious leader kept emphasizing that the original sins of Adam were passed on to me and I needed the sacrifice of Jesus Christ in order to be redeemed.
as I sit quietly I thought how could The Shins of the first man have anything to do with me,
although it's a pleasant idea that Christ would die for my sins how could he take responsibility for them.
just as I cannot take responsibility for the sins of Adam, how can normally intelligent people except this.
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Intelligent people don't accept it. You bring a good point though. The whole religion machine revolves around early indoctrination towards submission using guilt, so people won't question those things or eternal punishment. It has work wonders for years when people was isolated. Internet is the new sheriff, people keeps awaking and free the shackles of psychological oppression. Day in day out the process will continue towards complete freedom
IamNobody
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Apr 27, 2019
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the problem is they are intelligent people they were fed a religion at an early age giving no alternative idea and now they hang on tenaciously primarily they didn't know that there was another option I find that regardless people almost never questioned their core beliefs
The internal logic is that Adam, as the father of mankind, became a flawed person and that flaw was passed down by inheritance. Jesus was to be the father of a people freed from that flaw through grace. The Catholic Church, for one, seems to be content to see the Genesis story as an allegory, ignoring the problem of believing a real person died to save the world from the sin of an allegorical man.
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned - Romans 5:12.
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! - Romans 5:17.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. - 1 John 4:10.
brentan
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Apr 27, 2019
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thank you for the biblical references, the religious leader at the ceremony I went to also side of them. those biblical references do not make it logical one person can be punished for another's transgressions . person cannot take responsibility for their others transgressions there is a difference between consequences responsibility
Utter meaningless nonsense.
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