I hope i do not offend the Christian members of RF with my question.
on a message board like this, that's what people do.
I also ask (atheists for the most part) many questions here.
Why do Christian people celebrate Christ's death and not his life? To me it seems like it is more important to ser his death than to gain from the teaching Jesus gave as a living being?
Even to me as a muslim, Jesus is important but as a great prophet.
Jesus's teaching is great.
But if you have sins you're indebted before God.
Also in an earthly court, if you're required to pay money, mere teaching does not bring you any further.
You need the money.
Same is with God.
Only heavenly money can solve the problem of your (anyone's) sins.
But Jesus's death does have a value for God.
I suppose God payed Jesus for his efforts.
Bible says every workman merits pay.
And understand it that way (by the way I studied economics before I became a musician).
And Jesus reinvested his money to make an offer:
anyone willing to declare him as Lord confessing their sins... may be profiting from that money and their debts are getting washed away.
God the father accepts this deal. He accepts Jesus's money instead of the sums of money that humans should have paid for their sins.
This is at least how I understand the thing.
Yes, Jesus's life was great also.
Must a Christian person remove their one wrongdoing or how they act, speak or thinking? or can they live as they like without any form of trying to become without sin?
It's like in court: how do you remove your debts there? When they say you have to pay an amount of money... the only thing you could do to sort this out is by paying it.
In my understanding: whenever we sin, we need to pay some amount of money. Heavenly currency is needed.
If we can't, we have a problem.
This is how I see this.
