For my part, as best I understand it, the unifying point and central mystery of Christianity is that a powerful, knowledgeable entity deliberately had its own child tortured to death to right wrong(s) committed by somebody else."
Why don't I try from my beginning. This is what I believe,
Imagine if you will that we existed before we were born. As souls. Our souls were born to our parents. Lets call them Heavenly Father (God) and Heavenly Mother. Eventually we had progressed as far as we could as souls. We wanted more, we wanted to become more like our parents. Eventually we were presented with a plan, yes we could do that we could go on to the next step. This mean getting a body and learning all about looking after it, it also meant leaving "home" we were told of all the problems we would find along the way, we would not be able to see Mother and Father at all we would have to learn to walk by faith. Some of us would be lost. Some us would never return home. Father and Mother were pained by this. We knew that no unclean thing, that is anything that had sinned, could live with them. We were worried about never seeing them. One person stepped forward. it was Jesus. he had been the first born of all of us. He said that he would go down and that he would pay for the price of all of our sins, so that if we repented, justice and mercy would be satisfied and also through his death all who lived would be resurrected. And that all the glory for this plan would go to his father, At this point another Man stepped forward, he said, I have a better plan, under my plan, no one would be lost, because he would make every one do the right thing, and that he wanted all the glory. A battle of wills followed. 1/3 of the souls followed the second man, they were cast out and roam free on earth today, we call the leader Lucifer, son of the Evening. The rest of us, finished our first estate and came to earth, we have a body and we learn to be human.
Why did Jesus's parents allow him to do that? Because they loved all of their children. Why did Jesus offer his life? Because he loves us. Trust me on this one I have don't think I will ever truly understand the depth of that love, I talk in the beginning about a Heavenly Mother, because in our church we believe she exists, it's not something many people talk about for a number of reasons. Mostly because a lot of people don't really "get it" And secondly It's bad enough sitting on the train or the bus listening to people take the Lords name in vain we'd rather not add to the that list.
about at your comment above, yes. Jesus came to fulfill the law. After him there was no need for further sacrifices, because before him those sacrifices were actually a representation of Jesus.
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Why don't I try from my beginning. This is what I believe,
Imagine if you will that we existed before we were born. As souls. Our souls were born to our parents. Lets call them Heavenly Father (God) and Heavenly Mother. Eventually we had progressed as far as we could as souls. We wanted more, we wanted to become more like our parents. Eventually we were presented with a plan, yes we could do that we could go on to the next step. This mean getting a body and learning all about looking after it, it also meant leaving "home" we were told of all the problems we would find along the way, we would not be able to see Mother and Father at all we would have to learn to walk by faith. Some of us would be lost. Some us would never return home. Father and Mother were pained by this. We knew that no unclean thing, that is anything that had sinned, could live with them. We were worried about never seeing them. One person stepped forward. it was Jesus. he had been the first born of all of us. He said that he would go down and that he would pay for the price of all of our sins, so that if we repented, justice and mercy would be satisfied and also through his death all who lived would be resurrected. And that all the glory for this plan would go to his father, At this point another Man stepped forward, he said, I have a better plan, under my plan, no one would be lost, because he would make every one do the right thing, and that he wanted all the glory. A battle of wills followed. 1/3 of the souls followed the second man, they were cast out and roam free on earth today, we call the leader Lucifer, son of the Evening. The rest of us, finished our first estate and came to earth, we have a body and we learn to be human.
Why did Jesus's parents allow him to do that? Because they loved all of their children. Why did Jesus offer his life? Because he loves us. Trust me on this one I have don't think I will ever truly understand the depth of that love, I talk in the beginning about a Heavenly Mother, because in our church we believe she exists, it's not something many people talk about for a number of reasons. Mostly because a lot of people don't really "get it" And secondly It's bad enough sitting on the train or the bus listening to people take the Lords name in vain we'd rather not add to the that list.
about at your comment above, yes. Jesus came to fulfill the law. After him there was no need for further sacrifices, because before him those sacrifices were actually a representation of Jesus.