The thing that bothers me about the whole "Jesus died for the salvation of humanity" is, well, there's two things.
I struggle to see the connection between a 2000 year old carpenter's death on a hill in the Middle East and the moral choices of the other est. 100+ billion people? Even if we adjust that to only people living since approx. 1 AD, that's still 60 billion people.
Why Jesus in particular? If you discount the explanation that he was in direct communication with a higher power, isn't it a bit strange to assume one person's death can somehow excuse the malicious acts of the literal rest of the world? Seems a little juvenile to me at best, and a way to shirk any responsibility at worst (live a life as a sinner, have a deathbed conversion, and by some churches you're heavenbound!)
Was Jesus and the gospels maybe doing a littel nose candy while writing the Good Book?
GHe had to be high on something because as a Jewish Rabbi, he preached a lot of Jewish law against us abdicating our responsibility.
I have the following I give Christians to have them think of that but all they do is run away, which is standard the moment anyone askes them to debate or discuss morals.
Perhaps it is just badly written. As a moral man, you might opine on how I can make it more inviting to the moral cowards that run from it.
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On Jesus dying for you.
It takes quite an inflated ego to think a god would actually die for you, after condemning you unjustly in the first place.
You have swallowed a lie and don’t care how evil you make Jesus to keep your feel good get out of hell free card.
It is a lie, first and foremost because, like it or not, having another innocent person suffer or die for the wrongs you have done, --- so that you might escape responsibility for having done them, --- is immoral. To abdicate your personal responsibility for your actions or use a scapegoat is immoral.
You also have to ignore what Jesus, as a Jewish Rabbi, would have taught his people.
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Deuteronomy 24:16 (ESV) "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
Psa 49;7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
There is no way that you would teach your children to use a scapegoat to escape their just punishments and here you are doing just that.
Jesus is just a smidge less immoral than his demiurge genocidal father, and here you are trying to put him as low in moral fibre as Yahweh.
Regards
DL