Do you have gratitude for your existence ? When was the last time you looked up at the stars on a clear night ?
That we have done nothing and can do nothing to redeem ourselves is fundamental to Christianity.
You may want to regularly attend an in-depth Bible study.
Collecting your previous posts ...
>Wow, I don't think humankind deserves death and hell.
Please see http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~allenp/ORIGINALSIN.html
>No, Mike. Don't look at Jews for Jesus. It is a waste of
>your time.
Here's the evidence in the Old Testament which points to the 1st century arrival of the messiah found http://www.yfiles.com/y3nf.html and http://yfiles.com/shiloh.html
>One does not need an intermediary to connect to the higher
>force.
If God ordained the priest of Psalms 110 to be our intermediary, then who are we to complain? Psalms 80:17 makes it clear that the individual at God's right hand is the Son of Man. Daniel 7:14 shows that the Son of Man will be given an everlasting kingdom. Jeremiah 23:6 tells us that in the days of this King, Judah shall be saved. "Saved" implies forgiveness of sin, which Zechariah 3:9 implies will be done through an engraving action on a stone with seven eyes. Zechariah 4:10 tells us that God Himself has seven eyes.
God informs us of his using "similitudes" in the speakings of the prophets in Hosea 12:10.
>Which one of the following sects best approximates your
>belief system/frame of reference ?
The New Testament, like the Old Testament, are the Word of God, because they say what happens thousands of years before they happen. What man builds on top of the Word of God, does not make the Word of God cease to be so. There could be a million incorrect sects of Christianity, and it still wouldn't transform God's truths and Word into lies.
Christianity can withstand the strongest scrutiny. I invite you to write me privately, and we can arrange to meet and lay out the evidence for and against Jesus Christ being Messiah and God.
Do you believe that there is any human being on Earth that acts with primary agape love, and in any way not consistent with his conception of what is necessary for the survival of things important to him as a first consideration, and the good of another as a secondary consideration?
If you do, what would be the example(s)? 