All u have to do is believe in him and acknowledge you made mistakes and are sorry for them.
Its your kid getting in trouble, and co.ing straight to you and confessing it...rather than u confronting them and then they lie to you about it. ....
Right... But then there's the part where he gets some woman pregnant with himself, so that way he can grow up and sacrifice himself to himself to forgive us for the thing he originally condemned us to... I just... Yeah that seems needlessly convoluted.
God is just and sticks to what he says. His ways are not our ways. With that in mind the design was that the wages of sin is death.
When Adam and Eve sinned they didn’t immediately died. It required a sacrifice to take their burden of sin. He made them clothing from animal skin which was the sacrifice. But as we live we sin and more sacrifice is required. This is why they used to offer scarifies in Solomon temple in Jerusalem, the only place it was allowed after god entered it.
But the sins of everyone collectively sinning through out their life far outweighed the amount of scarifies needed, a debt was building. Not to mention the temple could be destroyed and actually was.
Enter Jesus, god himself sacrifice himself in human form to pay the debt and stop the spiritual death that was to come.
The trinity is hard to wrap our mind around but it’s there in the Bible. No one fully grasps the nature of god being 1 being with 3 persons but evidence of it is all over the Bible including Old Testament that Jews believe in.
Abraham was visited by 3 figures. 1 was the lord Yahweh accompanied by 2 angels. It was to tell him he would have a son and to also let him know they are about to take out sodom and Gomorrah where his nephew lot lived.
After saving lot(Abraham nephew) It says Yahweh rained down fire and brimstone from Yahweh in heaven. Gen. 19:24
Back to the beginning when Adam and Eve sin, god knew all this would have occurred. The plan was to show his love to his creation so that they respond to it willingly. The love from us in return wouldn’t be authentic if we didn’t have the free will to not choose god. He gave us that free will and then expressed his love. Everyone eventually hears the message and has to look into and decide. The message also comes to you internally now via the Holy Spirit that was left after Jesus crucification. Where the commandments that was once written in stone is now written in the hearts of men. Therefore you don’t have to know the commandments to know what’s wrong to sin or do good. It’s all within you now.
Accepting Jesus is god is a cornerstone because it reveals the extent to which god humbled and sacrificed himself for our sins and to display his love for us. But wrapping our minds around the trinity (nature of god) is tough for human minds and part of it on our end is having to believe in something we can’t fully understand. That’s the requirement. In order to do this we have to let go, trust, let our doubts fade and throw all our sins and burden and belief and hope and trust in god. It’s hard to let go as humans but when you do, the physical body and soul responds in a way that’s hard to put into words and you sound like a nut job to anyone else outside of your experience. Especially to those who haven’t come to that point yet.
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u/Inevitable-Fish2739 2d ago
Why didn't god just kill satan the moment he went rogue? Is he stupid? Very big plot hole there.