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Originally Posted by irtrogdor  But even if God has forgiven you, you have stilled sinned and thus become less than perfect. Thus you can no longer be in the presence of God. In order to bridge that gap, God sent the ultimate sacrifice to earth to purify humanity - Jesus. And since God gave us free will we have the choice to either accept his gift of purification or to reject it. Other wise humans would just be like pawns on a chess board. |
Sin is being separate from God. Jesus didn't die so that we become sin free. His death is symbolic of the killing of the separation from God. It's still up to us to reconnect.
How else can anyone makes sense of "Jesus died for my sins"?
Some guy named Jesus that figured out how to be connected to God and then got killed for it - does not, to me, equate to me being sin free. I think the message must be interpreted wrong in the general common statement that so many religious people just say without knowing what they are saying. Tell me it's faith - go ahead. Faith of what - that some guy dieing means I get into heaven too, later when I die? How come that makes no sense to me?