Jesus Christ: A Necessary Personality That God Cannot Do Without

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Jesus Christ: A Necessary Personality That God Cannot Do Without

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The common claim among Christians is that Jesus was necessarily put on/came down to Earth to save mankind from its sins so to allow the worthy to enter heaven. To do so it would be necessary to accept the divinity of Jesus and, to put it simply, either be saved by one's works (Catholic) or saved by one's faith (Protestant).

However, in as much as god is said to be omnipotent and can do anything logically possible could he not have dispensed with Jesus altogether and, knowing the heart of each individual, simply assign everyone to their proper destination, should there be more than one? That JC and all the attendant trappings of Christianity are wholly unnecessary, but likely concocted by power motivated autocrats who sought riches and despotic control over others?----my personal view of the motivating factors behind Christianity's success.


So, Jesus Christ: a truly necessary element that god could not do without so as to send people to heaven, OR a dispensable character in a religious fable?


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Re: Jesus Christ: A Necessary Personality That God Cannot Do Without

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God does require Christian live a morally upright life by His standards and avoid practises that God deems abhorrent and harmful
Miles wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 3:23 pm
Curious as to where one finds god's standards. The Old Testament? The New Testament? Both?

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As one of "Jehovahs Witnesses I believe God's standards can be found in both the Hebrew scriptures ("the Old Testament") and in the Christian scriptures ("The New Testament"). The standards by which Christians are expected live are found in the latter.

Miles wrote: Sat May 14, 2022 3:23 pm
... what are they (you only need cite a couple or so, with C&V if from the Bible)?

A couple of examples of the bible's moral standards for Christians can be found below
MATTHEW 22:36, 37

...Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” He said to him: “‘You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole mind.’ This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 The second, like it, is this: ‘You must love your neighbor as yourself.’
1 CORINTHIANS 6:9, 10

Those who are sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who submit to homosexual acts, men who practice homosexuality, thieves, greedy people, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners will not inherit God’s Kingdom.



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Miles wrote: Wed May 18, 2022 2:33 am Questions cannot constitute a genetic fallacy.
True, but insinuations under the disguise of questions can.
Really! How do you know? Personal communication?
No. Just good ole Christian theology.
Of course not. No doubt they've been brought up for thousands of years.
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We_Are_VENOM wrote: Wed May 18, 2022 5:45 pm
Miles wrote: Wed May 18, 2022 2:33 am Questions cannot constitute a genetic fallacy.
True, but insinuations under the disguise of questions can.
UURP! Image --Under what wacky, mind-confuting rules of logic did you dig this up from? Please, inquiring minds would like to know.

Really! How do you know? Personal communication?
No. Just good ole Christian theology.
Ahhh! Which one? You are aware, are you not, that there more than 40,000 Christian denominations globally? And most with a different theology to some degree or another.


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