Mary Blackchurch
Free from Stockholm Syndrome
SPLogan said:I would add that the specific thing people are saved from is God's wrath. In other words, God saves people from His own divine justice by taking credit for their sin and accepting sin's just punishment upon Himself in Christ.
In essence, "sin" is all forms of rebellion from God.
I don't think we need to be saved from anything except ourselves and the religious fundamentalists. If I need to be saved from Gods wrath, just what is he angry at me for? He created me and then decides he doesn't like the creation so he gets mad at the creation? Where is the justice in that--divine or otherwise? Then he dies for all of his creation only to lose in the end because not everyone will accept his supposed sacrifice..thus satan wins--yet again just as he did when god set man up in the garden of eden after he made them flawless and supposedly walked in communion with them. He must have been insecure to say to himself 'hmmm I wonder if they REALLY REALLY love me....I better set these two trees up to test them and since I am all-knowing I know they will fail. I will rectify that later when I die for them" :sarcastic
No, we only need to be saved from religious radicals. They're tearing up the humanity of the world and always have been.