It's folks like you that bother me ... you really don't get it ... you dwell on the simple minded aspect of the crucifixion ... what gets the attention of closed minded people ... .
I repeat:
His death was horrible yet the focus is misplaced. The above phrase has it right. By far the physical was tolerable compared to the emotional pain.
I hope your shallow view matures to what Christ did for ALL and all that is asked for is belief in Him and doing our best to follow His teachings in the Bible.
I hope your shallow view matures to what Christ did for ALL and all that is asked for is belief in Him and doing our best to follow His teachings in the Bible. I hope your shallow view matures to see the consequences of throwing "ands" into the salvational requirements. Without salvation it's fatuous to refer to "growth." The blood and gore was there for a reason; is it in vain that such well known hymns as "Rock of Ages" ('cleft for me, let me hide myself in Thee; let the WATER and the BLOOD, from THY RIVEN SIDE WHICH FLOWED, be of sin the double cure, save me from its guilt and power') refer to this rather, ahem, untidy event of history?