Brian2
Veteran Member
Well you were "told" incorrectly..
Jesus clearly speaks about people being eternally in heaven or hell.
..and how do you know where your soul originated?
Have you some scripture that says your soul was "created out of thin air"?
My understanding of the scripture is that God breathed a spirit into Adam to make him a living soul. I also think that from there that life force was passed from Adam to Eve and to each child of them etc and to us.
Eternity into the future is certainly possible, but it will take a long time to achieve
Why didn't God decide to pretend to be a man for the thousands of years before Jesus was sent, when he sent prophets in the OT, for example?
In OT times there were plenty of times imo that God appeared to people in the form of a man. That does not mean God was a man then but had the form of a man and sometimes had the form of something else. It is only with Jesus that divinity became human.
..what about John the Baptist .. he had is head cut off .. why isn't he God, and "died for our sins" in the way you claim that Jesus did?
Jesus was the only sinless man and was the one sent to be sinless and to be the sacrifice that fulfilled OT prophecy (eg Isa 53)
What .. a son of God being killed by hypocrites shows that God loves us?
Weird..
For the Son of God to endure all that shows how much He loves us and for the Father to watch all that and not crush a few people shows how much He loves us.