(New Testament) Whay did Christ
die on the cross anyway, if the old way was good enough??? When Paul speaks of the law he means anything that we should must or ought be doing.
I was under the impression that Jehovah's Witnesses didn't believe that Jesus
died on the
cross, that's why the New World Translation renders the Greek word «stautos» as «torture stake» instead of «
cross...»
Anyway, if you believe that Jesus was a created being (Arianism), and that He isn't God, but was some kind of demi - god, then he had no power to save us from anything.
i long with you david... and i myself stumble in my own awkward efforts toward freedom, and as you said, we know the fact is that it is scary to move into freedom... because it is unknown... but i see so many
on this newfound road to freedom get trapped in the liminal space of wish - fullfillment community (which actually rather looks like affinity rather than the hard - won community that comes from communitas)... i'm sure this is going to come off the wrong way, but i'm going to say it
anyway: many of the comments seem to be «all about me», and truly that is what religion is... but not freedom, not the mission of Jesus where you
die to yourself by taking up your
cross daily... not being centered
on the «other» rather than yourself...