@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can’t imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.
Jesus’s whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.
how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife
That is a good point. I concede that. I’ve only experienced Christianity from mainstream denominations and I can see how that has biased me and poisoned my opinions of Jesus.
@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can’t imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.
Jesus’s whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.
That is a good point. I concede that. I’ve only experienced Christianity from mainstream denominations and I can see how that has biased me and poisoned my opinions of Jesus.