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In reply to the discussion: Question about "Jesus died for our sins" [View all]sprinkleeninow
(22,198 posts)1. 'Hell' is the condition of being eternally distanced from God.
A condition when one can still experience His Love, but also having a void that will not be filled, a knowing that will not be satisfied.
Jesus became The Christ when He voluntarily ascended the Cross once and for all. He became the Atonement and the Second Adam , which was necessary to cancel out the iniquity of the First Adam.
'Sins' are 'pre-emptively' covered by His redemptive sacrifice. Conditionally though, in that one believes this gift as done/offered for his or her own benefit, acknowledges Him as Saviour, and finally enters into the life of the Faith [Church].
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Noyes' "perfectionist" sect did feel that they could "sin" without penalty, I believe.
rogerashton
May 2018
#4
No. It means that Christ showed that a sin and sins can be be redeemed by accepting the grace.....
marble falls
May 2018
#6
If I remember from Catholic School, we all inherited original sin from Adam and Eve and therefore
wasupaloopa
May 2018
#7
If I commit one of the sins but don't believe it is a sin, do I still get fried?
3Hotdogs
May 2018
#9
And there, in a nutshell, is the reason so many insist on denying evolutionary theory
Pope George Ringo II
May 2018
#14
When I read Genesis now it is plain that it is mythology but there is a meaning.
wasupaloopa
May 2018
#24
It's worse than that. Once you include the Utah crowd, it's the Desert Quadrilogy.
Pope George Ringo II
May 2018
#46
It means early Christians needed to explain how their omnipotent messiah got himself killed.
Act_of_Reparation
May 2018
#13
You know that part of marketing where you invent a need the customer didn't know he had?
Pope George Ringo II
May 2018
#31
Yes. That is why he did it. So people would live in harmony. And accept that there
applegrove
May 2018
#38
