re: Sara huckabee sanders has lost some Weight and looks good

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Because God would not be just and righteous if he let sin pass unpunished

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God created Adam and Eve in a state of innocence - not knowing right from wrong without knowledge of good and evil. Then God punished them for doing something that they could not have known was wrong. Then God punished all of Adam’s descendants for something Adam did. You think that is righteous and just?

Aaron made the golden calf in the desert and the Israelites used the calf as an image of the Lord God in their worship of him. And God made some of Israelites slaughter their own people for worshipping God using an image - an idol. And God sent a very great plague to kill some more as punishment for Aaron’s crime. Now Aaron could not have known it was a crime because Moses had not returned from thr mountain with that law yet. Also it was Aaron’s crime but he got to live while others were killed as punishment. Is that just and righteous?

God let David’s first son with Bathsheba suffer and die because he was pissed at what David did. Was it just and righteous for that baby to be born and to suffer and die to pay for David’s sin? Why didn’t David pay for his own sin?

You accept Jesus’ sacrifice as payment for your sins. Is it moral to punish someone else for your transgressions? Why should you accept that if you are moral and just and righteous?

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but first-hand accounts of Jesus saying it at the Last Supper.

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Where are those first hand accounts? Did you mean third hand accounts? Do you know what the definition of first hand is?

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First, that isn't why Christians strive to do "good", because a Christian knows he can't make it to Heaven, or be spared Hell, by his acts.

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That’s fine to believe that if you like Paul (Mr. Important). If you go by what “Jesus” says in the gospels though, and by what “James” says, those works are absolutely important and necessary to enter into God’s kingdom? Are you going to believe Paul, or are you going to believe Jesus and his brother?

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You can't do the "right" thing (let's say feeding the poor, as an example) to maximize your happiness, because you wouldn't know whether that would make you happy or not without biblical morals.

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It would take a psychopath to help someone and not feel like you had done something good and right.

It’s all moot anyway because in reality (not in fantasy) your Christian god doesn’t exist. And most of the people in the world are not Christian and they have loving families and they aren’t all raping and murdering each other.