to not understand why Christians think Jesus died for our sins?

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If Jesus died for everyone's sins, does that mean people are not accountable for their actions? You can kill people, steal and lie but have a protected status because Jesus died for your sins.

How does this work? Why are people not responsible for their own sins? Where is the justice?

The concept of Jesus' sacrifice also has to be considered in the light of the story of Abraham.
Abraham and Sarah longed for a child and Sarah became miraculously pregnant with Isaac. They were filled with Joy.
However, God asked Abraham to sacrifice this miracle child. He was heartbroken but felt he had to do as God wished and climbed up a mountain and built a funeral pyre on which to sacrifice his beloved son. God stopped Abraham at the last minute, telling him that he did not want Isaac, he just wanted Abraham to have the faith in him to give him up.
God has asked Abraham to do what any parent would refuse to do.
With the story of Jesus, here we see God willingly giving up his only son, for the people that he created. A kind of continuation of the Abraham and Isaac story, God is doing what he asked of Abraham.

Couldn’t agree more. Questions and thoughtful debate are important. I didn’t find the OPs post offensive but I’ve found many of the posts after to be.

It is really not. Yes, it is ‘Come to me and have your sins forgiven’ but it is also ‘Take your cross and follow me’. It is ‘Jesus, my Saviour’ but also ‘Jesus, my Lord.’

From a human perspective it goes:
a) recognise your sinfulness which is
b) both the wrong things you do/say/think
c) but also and more importantly, rejecting God
d) repent of this - be sorry AND want to change
e) be forgiven
f) and be given the Holy Spirit so you have the ability to change
g) live out your life trusting that you are saved no matter how much you fail
h) live out your life following Christ as well as possible
i) become perfectly good, healthy, happy, satisfied after death in the new creation.

For some people, (g) and (h) are very short and for others very long, but the principle is the same for all.

Because God is completely just and completely holy, as well as merciful and forgiving. It’s not justice to wipe away wrongdoing without any punishment. It’s not loving to just destroy sinners, which is what his holiness demands. So he squares the circle by taking the punishment on himself so that it is paid but we do not have to bear it. That is why Good Friday is so very, very good news. And on Easter Sunday we celebrated because it confirms that all the punishment is paid and we, like Christ, can have a new life.

It wouldn't apply if they carried on like that. I think it does apply in general if the person genuinely repents and regrets their actions. But it has to be genuine, not just doing something with the thought of "I'll say sorry and it will be fine." The person has to actually be a "changed" person and have "found" god.

That is nonsense. The whole history of the early church was of questioning and debate as they established a clear understanding on all sorts of questions. Some views were deemed to be wrong while others were found to be uncertain. But you could always ask the question.

Exactly. Can you imagine the outrage if this type of post was directed towards other religions?

From a human perspective it goes:
a) recognise your sinfulness which is
b) both the wrong things you do/say/think - don’t believe in the concept of a sin. I don’t need a religious threat to know right from wrong
c) but also and more importantly, rejecting God - doesn’t exist
d) repent of this - be sorry AND want to change have nothing to repent about
e) be forgiven - what for?
f) and be given the Holy Spirit so you have the ability to change - there isn’t a Holy Spirit
g) live out your life trusting that you are saved no matter how much you fail - I don’t need saving from anyone/anything
h) live out your life following Christ as well as possible - doesn’t exist
i) become perfectly good, healthy, happy, satisfied after death in the new creation. Am happy, healthy and have a great life. On death we’re all the same - nothing happens to us other than cremation or burial.

Jesus death is a ransom ie something equal in value.

Sin ie death entered into the world when Adam and Eve rejected God's Sovereignty. Adam was a perfect man created by God

To clear this debt a perfect man was needed to die to wipe away the debt.

The life was the life to come.

This does not mean your sins are wiped away and you must bear any legal process but that if you genuinely give up sin you may stand a chance of life after death. Anyone can sin and be forgiven but true redemption means a change in your behaviour. You can not repent and continue to practice sin.

It is forgiven by God's standards and he judges if you are truly repentant or just saying the words.

Sin in this case was death.

Why don’t you do some research, rather than putting a goady post on here, on Easter Sunday.

They wouldn’t dare!

And you decided to post this on the most holy day in the Christian calendar. Sure… 🙄

The majority of the population in the uk are not Christians and today’s focus will be on Easter eggs rather than religion.

I'm a Christian.
If you have truly changed your ways and believe, you will go to heaven.
If you slip up and are truly remorseful, you will go to heaven.

I don't shove my beliefs down people's throats.
If they don't believe then that's fine and I wouldn't moan about it.
What I don't like,is people slagging Christians off for our beliefs and start saying things like "go pray to your sky fairy" etc.

Sin doesn’t exist - it’s just a concept to try and make people behave a certain way. I haven’t done anything wrong so it could be said that I haven’t committed any sins.

I’m a good person - haven’t done anything wrong but am an atheist - what will happen to me?

Person lives a wonderful, sin-free life. They do not believe Jesus died for their sins. Lakes of fire await.

No one is perfect.
You can go wherever you choose to believe you will go.

That's not what the bible says.

Same as everyone else - a hole in the ground!

I can't say I've read the entire bible. Gates of hell awaiting I guess.

So you think I’ll go to hell as a good person?

That's ridiculous and pertinently false. Even Jesus famously doubted.

Not to mention did God also create angels? And the devil is a fallen angel-so God also created the evil serpent who tempted Eve and brought sin into the world 🤯

And that's fine for you to think that.