Lying is sin. Stealing is sin. Adultery is sin. Fornication (pre-marital sex) is sin. Drunkenness is sin. (to name a few) Sin permeates all cultures and destroys lives. Jesus came and died for all people of all cultures for all time. Accept him or reject him. It's your choice and no I won't try to blow you up nor will I chop your head off if you choose not to receive His gift of eternal life.
2014-05-12T22:22:30Z
btw/ I never give a thumbs down to anyones answer.
Sin isn't a teaching in my beliefs so no. I have no real desire to worship the culture deity of the Hebrews. I'll stick with the cultural beliefs of my own people.
Don't shift all your personal responsibility on to Jesus. YOU alone are responsible for your thoughts, words and deeds.
Jesus was an avatar – a highly advanced soul who incarnated on earth to teach us about love and what god really is.
“Yeshua ben Joseph, whom you call Jesus of Nazareth, is a great God, just as you are a great God. But he is not the only son of God; he is a son of God. He was a man who became God, just as you will become God.
What did Yeshua teach? That he is the son of God, and indeed he is. But he also openly proclaimed that everyone is also a son of God. He taught nothing other than that. Everyone is God expressing his perfection as man. And what good would it be for the father to have so many children who are imbeciles and only one who is perfect? It would not be a very good reflection on the Father. Yeshua is your brother, not your savior. He was a man who had God within him, just as you have God within you.
Yeshua lived on this plane at a time when man did not love man, when man was in bondage to man, and love was not held in high regard. But Yeshua exemplified love for everyone. It was that same love that would foster his being hailed savior of the world, for he brought love to this plane where very few expressed it and he gave it openly to everyone.
He also brought the teaching that the Father is not a God of judgment and retribution but an all-loving God of mercy, grace, and compassion. Unfortunately, that understanding has been greatly altered throughout history and through the writings of those who very much failed to understand the simple teaching of this immaculate soul.
Yeshua loved. That was his great and magnificent gift to mankind. And he openly proclaimed that the source of that love was the Father that lived within him, the same Father that lived within all people. What gave Yeshua the freedom and power to embrace all humanity was that he knew that the Father and he were one and the same. He peeled away all the illusions that caused him to live an hypocrisy, and by doing so he expressed completely the Father that lived within him. In that, Yeshua became a Christ: man expressing wholly as God; God expressing completely in man. That is what the term Christ means: God/man, man/God. A Christ is anyone who realizes that he is God and then lives that truth.
The only difference between Yeshua and you is that Yeshua understood the principle of God within man and then he lived that principle completely. For that, he is indeed a grand entity. But you are also a grand entity who possesses the same nobleness and the same love to become what he became. YESHUA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SAVING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE.
Through the realization that he was God living on Earth, he became the savior of himself, who then taught others how to be their own salvation through the God within themselves. He taught everyone, "WHAT I HAVE DONE, ALL MAY DO, for the father and you are one. Your kingdom is not of this place. The kingdom of heaven is within you." And he spoke not of hell; he spoke of life and its beauty.”