If it isn't in Scripture, where is the evidence?
Does forgiveness require payment, or is it free?
My concern is not that the Bible has been tampered with, but rather the human limitations and interpretations that could affect its accuracy. The authors would have tried to understand God but they aren't perfect. The intellectuals who study the authenticity of the historical documents are fallible.
If you owe someone a debt, and that debt is paid by a third party, then that debt is never forgiven at all. God doesn't need someone to pay off debt to forgive. He can simply forgive. That's what true forgiveness is. There is no payment in forgiveness.
If Jesus died in our place, then he would have suffered the punishment that comes as a result of sin, which is death (Romans 6:23). So he either died physically or spiritually. If he died physically so that we would not die physically, then why do people still suffer physically death?
The other option is spiritual death which is likely the type of death Paul was talking about. Obviously Jesus didn't die spiritually. Therefore, he did not die in our place.
I believe that the Bible isn't infallible. All authorityi has been given to Jesus. Salvation is more about being saved from an old way of life into a new way of life than it is about the afterlife. Jesus didn't pay for our sins, he forgave our sins.
This story is much more than a test of faith. Abraham didn't even question God's order or hesitate to carry it out. In the time Abraham lived, all the pagan gods demanded child sacrifice. God stopping Abraham from killing his son shows that He was different from all the other gods.
Nobody is in hell since nobody has been judged yet.
Do you think that porn should not be allowed?
One does not have to believe in the infallibility of the Bible or that Jesus died just to pay for our sins to be a Christian.
Jesus Christ is my lord and saviour.
If nobody went to heaven before Jesus, where did they go?
Our hope is a physical resurrection of the body.
For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. (1 Corinthians 15:16-20)
Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." (John 11:24)
Everlasting life does not mean that we get to go to heaven when we die. The dead will be resurrected.
For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. (1 Corinthians 15:16-20)
Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." (John 11:24)
Martha believed that we would be resurrected on the last day.
We don't go to heaven when we die.
No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
John 3:13
Some reject Christianity because they reject the Bible or mainstream Christianity.