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Comment on If God truly is ‘all-powerful’ and ‘omnipotent,’ then Jesus dying wasn’t the only way to ‘save us.’”

Matthew 26 says this was the only way.

O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt

Jesus literally say if there were another way, let us do that.

So yes, if you believe in the Bible, you believe that there’s was not another way to let the suffering pass, not another way to bring salvation to everyone.

This being said, it’s all bullshit. I studied for decades. Taught for years, served as a missionary, leader, etc. There isn’t anything on this earth that proves the asinine shit in the Bible. I’ve studied every religious text I could, read them over and over. And watched the evil shit we do, watched the damage those in every church create and allow to happen. Watched as those that are supposedly ordained of God do nothing but evil. Fuck religion. Fuck idiots that believe.

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Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Jesus literally said: Father why have you forsaken me? He, as the son, couldn’t even fully understand it when his human side overcame the divine.

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- titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I didn’t know how you can deny the words that are literally written there. But you obviously believe in religion, so I understand that you make up what you want to fit your own narrative.
  
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  - Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Happy new year to you too.
    
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- EvenOdds@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  To understand the bible, you need to understand the cultural context of the time it was written.
  
  There are so many different interpretations of the bible, what’s important, what’s the deeper meaning, and what you can ignore. Your interpretation is clearly different to the parent poster.
  
  For an omnipotent being, kinda strange way to get your message across isn’t it? Even the most devout followers can’t agree what it all means, let alone everyone else.
  
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  - Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Only an issue if you believe in Sola Scriptura honestly, it’s easy to understand how easily can any message get lost, manipulated, misunderstood through the centuries.
    
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    EvenOdds@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Never understood how someone decided in the last 5 centuries that a book isn’t the word of God and hence should be removed.
    
    Arbitrary decisions have been made for much longer than 5 centuries about which books are in and out of the bible, and how to change the text to suit the narrative and culture of the day
    
    if there is a God how can a person understand it’s mind?
    
    That’s kinda the point. It all comes down to what “feels right” for each person, not what’s proven to be true. How do we know any interpretation is correct, and we know what’s actually in “God’s mind”? For all we know, no interpretation is correct and we all have it wrong.
    
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