--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "peterklutz" <peterklutz@> > wrote: <snip> > > How would you describe the quality of the Karma visited upon Jesus > > Christ as he was nailed to the cross?>> > > Jesus Christ is a story, nothing more. > He never existed in the time or place that you christians > think. And even if he was nailed to the cross, if he was > an Avatar, then no doubt (as he himself says in the story), > that it was liberating. Only an ignorant man thinks being > nailed to a cross is bad karma. For the enlightened, > everything is a good laugh.
Eh, neither of you has a clue about the Christian story here. Jesus was a sinless being, a perfect sacrifice, who willingly gave his life on the cross *for our sins*, took them upon himself so that we might be reconciled with God. It's called Substitutionary Atonement. Ordinary human beans can never be good enough by our own efforts to be acceptable in God's sight, but if we accept Jesus' sacrifice in our name, we are assured of God's unconditional forgiveness and eternal life. (St. Paul dreamed this up, incidentally, well after the fact; it wasn't Jesus' idea.)
