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It's crazy to me how people can think Christianity can be progressive.
What is sin? It's to disobey God's orders.
Gods Law is above man's conscience, morality and social norms. NEVER set the standards of sin upon our own consciences based on social norms. The sins of our consciences are not in accord with what God has defined as sin. Therefore we should not listen to our consciences, but rather base the standards of sin on God's commandments.
The most serious sin is to disregard the Word of God. God gave us the law in the first place to make us realize our sins and punishment for them. Everyone should admit your sins and ask God to save you. You have to give up your own standards. Don't be arrogant and think you can live by Gods law either, no one is redeemed through their works. The one who is to be saved may think of himself as the worst sinner. Those who don't know themselves live hypocritical lives trying to hide their sinful selves in front of God. Jesus came to call the sick, the sinners to righteousness. Receive Jesus' love and admit you have committed many wrongs.
He has taken away the worlds sin onto himself at his baptism and carried it to the cross, where he bled to death with the worlds sin. We are free from sin through his actions. Its your belief in his works with a repentant heart that saves you. All sin requires the offering of a blood sacrifice because all sin results in death. This is why in Hebrews 10 it makes it a point to let everyone know those daily sacrifices they've done up until that point could never truly take away their sin. Because once you sin, don't you have to remove your sin once again through another blood sacrifice? So Jesus came once, and made everyone perfect who draws near. Even though you have to wash your feet daily you're completely clean through his righteous works.
This is the exact line you get when you ask a jew if circumcision is moral. Sure, we can't understand everything about God, but God for sure should be questioned. God is unconditional love. God should love his children questioning about his wonderful creation, learning more about it, how he set it up, why he did it that way.
Yeah, there is a lot to consider in this vein.
Babies are baptized because Church teaching was that unbaptized people go to Hell automatically. Lots of babies used to die, so you baptized them ASAP to prevent them from going to Hell if they died early.
But if God is all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful... then this makes no sense. An all-knowing and all-loving being would never damn a baby over baptism. An all-powerful being could bring an unbaptized person to Heaven.
So to insist babies should be baptized is to DENY God as all-knowing, all-loving and all-powerful. It is a MORTAL SIN to deny God. It's sacrilege.
If you continue this line of thinking.....
If God is an all knowing, all powerful being, why would he make his truth only in one religion, one book? You'd think you'd be able to find truth regardless of where you were born. Does God just damn everyone thats never heard of Christianity? Does he damn people in Africa who don't have the ability to comprehend faith?
None of that makes any sense if God is an all knowing all powerful and loving being.
If he's that, he wouldn't damn anyone at all for anything. I think he would give them infinite chances to learn about his creation, use their free will how they choose.
Divorce of the Nations:
https://youtu.be/qy-fGciOh5k
God has showed up in dreams, visions, and interactions in other parts of the world though, ex:
https://youtu.be/RMihqyiXQK4
The official Church line was that people who never got a chance to accept Jesus were off the hook, AFAIK.
Which makes the whole "bring the Word of God to the world" thing weird. You could just get rid of Christianity and therefore save everyone.
I think the counter balance is supposed to be "Jesus died for your sins" thing, and so we have to minimize sin to minimize His suffering.
Sounds like a plug for reincarnation there, haha.
My Jesuit religion teacher in high school would say all religions are ladders to the same roof. You can make all of them work with the same God expressing Himself different ways if you want to.