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Dont be obtuse... Morality and the basis for that morality are two different things. But a functioning morality can be worked out from the basis of not harming others... obviously when we take into account all the interactions and interconnections that can get very complex and nuanced.
Yes and He told me not to judge but have the same hope for others I should have for myself ( Matthew 7:1-12) & that those who have done good will be saved vs those who did evil will not be saved ( John 5:22-30). John 3:16-21 also says those who do what is truthful will come to the light. I believe God will be merciful in many ways I have no way of knowing but I leave it up to Him.
If you don’t have a fear of everlasting condemnation when we die, you will not be able to grasp the Gospel and how God does love us ( John 3:16-21). That God became incarnate ( John 1:1-18) and that the Lord Jesus Christ explains God revealed to us in John chapters 14,15, & 16 and that when we have our moments of existing as He wants us to we reflect it according to the Persons of the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit ( John 14:15-18).
Are you in rejection of Christ?
Then your discussions of Christianity, arguing a mere god —a superhuman— are useless. Christianity's God is omnipotent, self-existent. and not a creature. First Causer of all other fact/ events/ causes. Not a mere resident within a larger reality.
FWIW, most of the churches, if not the members, do so. But Christendom is a long way from actual Christianity.
Then it falls to you to flesh that out and explain how exactly you think there is a moral failure in the concept of hell, and how exactly people might be innocent and undeserving of eternal separation from God. It's not enough to give a vague, easily-debunked standard and then when called out on it gesture to more vague "nuance" that you can't or won't supply. "It's obvious" isn't an explanation.
It is absolutely perfect justice.
Yep. . .it is what justice requires in order to be just.
Jesus came to die as a ransom/sacrifice (Mt 20:28).
He forgave those who were just doing their job, who had no skin in the game.
In Hebrews 11, it gives examples of people from the OT who had saving faith even though they had never read the NT, so reading the NT is not required for salvation. In Luke 10:25-28, Jesus said that the way to inherit eternal life is by obeying the greatest two commandments, so there is no reason to doubt the salvation of anyone who is doers of the greatest two commandments.
Her subjunctive mode does not imply that he could have failed. @Eleanor does not believe that he could have failed. In fact, I expect, she believes as I do, that the whole notion is silly; she only wrote it that way to make an obvious point —that it was his intention from the beginning, to be killed, a fact to which scripture directly attests.
When you say "the Jews", who exactly do you mean?
There were only Jews and Gentiles.Maybe you should say that instead of The Jews.
