google can tell you. It became the Cult of Sol, which is why you go to church on Sunday, among other Roman practices
Yeh, I looked that up. Just like I looked up "Christian". Wikipedia is where I posted that definition and found the one definition for this also. I go to church because I follow Jesus Christ and like to fellowship with other believers. I would go to church every day if I could. But I study at home besides just Wednesday and Sunday, because I am a follower of Christ Jesus.
no Son of Man may die for another's sins; the soul that sins will die
so i know this is hard to grasp, but
Jesus did not die for your sins, at least not in the manner we are taught, wadr. God did not need Jesus to come and sacrifice Himself for you,
I desire mercy, not sacrifice.
Where is your quote from? And no, God is all-sufficient and needs nothing. But sacrifice is what He required from us to show that sin has a price, because He is also a just God. This is why Jesus died:
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:8 NKJV
Jesus Christ was obeying the will of the Father, and it was His will for a pure spotless lamb to atone for our sins, because He is merciful. He is also a just God though. Wickedness can not go unpunished. This is why He required what He did, because God will not look upon sin.
i know this runs counter to...everything we are told, ok, but...God did not need Adam and Eve to have a skin to be acceptable to Him, as demonstrated by the fact that He went looking for them in the Garden, and found them, naked. They had the problem, not God, right.
But God covered them.
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:21 NASB
He did this, because He required sacrifice. Adam and Eve tried to sew fig leaves together and this was insufficient, because they disobeyed God. This is also why God liked their son Abel's sacrifice more then Cain's.
Sin was there problem. And God was their answer.
"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Romans 5:14-15, 21 NASB
See, they were already forgiven, just like everyone in the world is, right now. Forgiveness does not save anyone, at least not per se. as strange as that seems. Confession leads to salvation.
According to Romans 5. They were not. In fact, in Genesis, God told them if they touch the tree or eat of it, they would die. This was both a physical and spiritual death.
Also, This is what the Bible says:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:16 NASB
that if you confess with your mouth
Jesus as Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
Romans 10:9 NASB
Confession of sins result in sanctification.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 NASB
This is where we have fellowship with God when we confess our sins to Him.