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Originally Posted by LiveUninhibited
I'd rather believe in an evil god than no god at all. I am also an atheist, but oblivion seems worse than hell, though supposedly non-existence is the eventual result either way. It's a shame the gnostics were ignored. That theory of theirs on the OT god would make christianity make a little more sense. On the other hand, the basic idea of Christianity doesn't make sense and nobody has been able to answer the following question: Why would God send himself/son to be tortured and killed so that he can change his own rules? If he was all-powerful and all-benevolent, then he would just forgive people who deserve forgiveness naturally without any need for being worshipped like some insecure fool.
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Through the acceptance of His shedding of that blood, we are
declared righteous. God can't simply ignore sin because then he wouldn't be just. Christ died so that he would have a reason to.
Hebrews 9:22 "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."
Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast."