Trackdayguy
Speed doesn't kill, it's hitting the wall
Once you reject the myth of original sin, then things start to get interesting.
If we didn’t fall into “original sin” as an act of wilful disobedience, there was no need to be baptized “for the remission of sins”. The idea that unbaptized babies were bound for hell is ludicrous. There was also no need for us to be “saved”, rescued, or redeemed” from a fall that never happened.
Once you reject the concept of original sin the whole package falls apart. This meant that the story of God sending Jesus or incarnating the divine person in the human Jesus to overcome “the fall” or to “die for our sins” is reduced to a little more than at best a pious nonsense and at worst a massive deception.
In the end God cannot logically rescue us from a fall that never happened, nor can God restore us to a status we never possessed.
If you choose to believe this, it’s totally cool with me as long those who believe don’t insult my intelligence by tell me it’s true.
If we didn’t fall into “original sin” as an act of wilful disobedience, there was no need to be baptized “for the remission of sins”. The idea that unbaptized babies were bound for hell is ludicrous. There was also no need for us to be “saved”, rescued, or redeemed” from a fall that never happened.
Once you reject the concept of original sin the whole package falls apart. This meant that the story of God sending Jesus or incarnating the divine person in the human Jesus to overcome “the fall” or to “die for our sins” is reduced to a little more than at best a pious nonsense and at worst a massive deception.
In the end God cannot logically rescue us from a fall that never happened, nor can God restore us to a status we never possessed.
If you choose to believe this, it’s totally cool with me as long those who believe don’t insult my intelligence by tell me it’s true.