Why did Jesus condemn you?

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Why did Jesus condemn you?

Christian dogma and traditions say that we are all condemned. Some say because of Original Sin, a non-Jewish concept that I think we can ignore as scriptures say that we are all responsible for our own sins. Jesus also indicates that this is so as he tells us to pick up our crosses and follow him. Our cross means our sins. Anything else would be immoral so we can know that we are judged only by our own sins.

I was a large sinner as compared to most. I am still a sinner but I suffered becoming brethren to Jesus and recognize that I was never condemned. The only thing I needed saving from was ignorance of reality. I followed these quotes/instructions.

Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

As to thinking that Jesus died for you, even though you are not condemned and never were, Jesus would never give you a debt to do unto him what you think he did for you, to die. Jesus came to give life in abundance. Not death. You are conditioned not to believe this of course as you believe in the immoral sacrifice doctrine. There is never any justice in punishing the innocent instead of the guilty.

You presently think yourself condemned.

What was your sin and what makes you think that Jesus would die for you and lay a false and immoral sense of indebtedness to him on you, --- instead of just forgiving you?

Regards
DL

I happen to know that he concept of original sin post dated early Christianity.

I'm not an apologist of Christianity, just know this one.

St Augustine by his own admission was sex obsessed. This seems to be more about one man's personal problem than anything else.

Also how can you be condemned and forgiven at the same time?

As an Atheist, I wonder why people spend so much time bothering about something hat was so badly though out in the fireplace.

These doctrines are profoundly mediocre works.

1 John 1:5

"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."

I like that one.

If God has a plan for everything, are people's sins part of his plan?

Because I'm a blasphemous heathen, who listens to evil satanic music.


But no in all seriousness, never talked to the guy so couldn't say if he's actually condemned me or not.

It's incorrect to state unilaterally that Christian dogma and traditions say that we are all condemned. The Orthodox Church - the oldest of the Christian Churches, which has preserved the Apostolic teachings - views this differently. For the Orthodox, the term ancestral sin (προπατορικό αμάρτημα) is preferred, and is used to define the doctrine of man's 'inclination towards sin, a heritage from the sin of our progenitors', and that this is removed through baptism. St. Gregory Palamas taught that man's image was tarnished as a result of Adam's disobedience.

God(Jesus?) loves everyone, except for the long list of people he doesn't.