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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
Wait... God has no judgement on us? So who decides about heaven or hell and sends floods and turns people to stone and banishes them from the garden and all that? Isn't god supposed to be the ultimate judge? Doesn't the harshness of the way we judge ourselves and each other stem (at least in part) from a value system that is predicated upon religious (which in America basically = Christian) notions of righteousness/sin, reward/punishment, clean/unclean etc.
Truly curious, not baiting. This is definitely not my understanding of any monotheistic religion. I had never heard the expression identity in Christ, so thank you for your explanation.
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It's not about whether God is just. He is. He does punish and He does judge. But those who are Christians are not judged any longer because God, in the form of Jesus, paid the price. So that judgment that would normally fall on us fell on Him, and we are no longer judged. The price Jesus paid showed that God is both just and loving. He is just because the price was paid. He is loving because He paid it Himself to make sure we are with Him and not separated from Him.
We chose sin and evil and separation from God and hell. We chose to let all that open on the world because we have the free will to do good or evil. The whole of history has been about God working to redeem us and bring us back to Him.