re: Thoughts on "Jesus: He gets us"

I generally agree with those messages I have seen but I have not looked into who or what is behind them. I am more interested in the concept of Grace myself. I am a Christian and a very poor one. Faith is belief and belief is faith. Its in us all I believe given when we became not of the animal but sentient. Some just chose to bury it. I can understand all beliefs and the doubters but one...the atheist.

It’s progressive Christianity dogshit.

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and never will be

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Said every former heathen ever

May the love of Christ work on your stony heart so that you may be a testament to his power. Peace be with you brother

They are wolves in sheep's clothing deflecting people away from the gospel. Jesus loves us enough to tell us the truth because He is the TRUTH!

Watch this one-minute video. Jesus gets us and saves us.

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Jesus does get us. He made us then came to be incarnated like us. That is the point of Christmas. And he does love those we “hate” and he calls us to love like He does - sacrificially. But He always calls away from sin. Because ultimately sin kills us in this life and the next. Just look at the massive suffering in this world. That isn’t God inflicted. It is self inflicted. It is your and my selfishness that brings death into this world.

If one starts with does God exist and really contemplate the metaphysical evidence from the Greeks to Paul to Aquinas. One will eventually end up with Jesus and realize how much we need this triune God who is a perfect union of love and so merciful and loving that he wants to share his infinite perfect love with a free will creation created in his likeness. He does not have to or need to but he wants to.

At that point it becomes almost impossible to resist and refuse that love. Plus He understands how difficult it is for us to cast aside sin so He gave us sacramental gifts to tap into his mercy love and graces daily.

That is the faith you say you grew up with. I did not but chose it late in life after living and suffering in this life and asking the tough questions while at a point I was ready to accept what I did not expect.

Blessings to you.

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I don't see where any person has something or state or whatever that they need to be saved from

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Do you know that the Bible says that all have sinned, and fall short of God’s glory? No one is born good by God’s standard, we are all sinners and deserve eternal punishment?

Whenever I have questions like these, I find it best to turn to The Word.

I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.

-Revelation 3:15-16



Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. 37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

-Matthew 10:34-39


Jesus wasn't a hippie. He is the same God that judges, destroys, casts out, annihilates, and yes... loves.

I don't see myself as an atheist at all. Just an agnostic who does appreciate Christianity. I do believe in a higher power.

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that you care about my soul

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Do you even believe that you have a soul?

I think trying to get Christianity across in 30 second ads leaves things way too open to false interpretations in either direction and are therefore, more harm than good.

Oversimplification of complex ideology is dangerous