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Why did Jesus Have to Die?

Who among the inhabitants of earth seeks eternal life?  People spend billions on processes and pills to prolong their mortal life. To what end we might ask?  How can the life and death of a single person in the history of the world proclaim to offer desire a desire common to the human race? Are there sufficient reasons to believe that he lived and died as the scriptures record? Even time and history are measure by reference to his birth and death and yet his name is often used with consummate disrespect among those who give him little or no heed. Questions We May Wonder About If God the Father is all-powerful why couldn't he through his omnipotence waive or forgive the effects of sin.  Why the need for an offering, sacrifice or atonement? Why couldn't he conquer death and sin by merely speaking? Traditional Christian theologians and religious philosophers through the ages have claimed that God created everything by speaking. Why not solve the issues of sin and death b...

Grace

What is the grace of God and how does it come through Jesus Christ?  Some say a person only needs to confess with the mouth that Jesus is their Savior.  That brings up some questions.  Did Old Testament believers, the Jews and the various tribes of Israel and the gentiles have a chance to know enough to make such a confession?  What about the other billions that have lived without access to or knowledge of the bible and its teachings?  Such a doctrine when viewed from a realistic standpoint is unjust and logically flawed if God truly is a just being.  The idea of a single confession is for the most part an invention of modern-day evangelicals since they have no real authority to oversee the word or work of God. God created the earth and then created man and woman and everything they need to live in mortality and to live eternally after mortality. The Fall induced a state of opposition. This what the knowledge of good and evil is.  With such knowledge, ...