This whole thing of "Jesus dying for our sins" is ludicrous. If we aren't willing or even able to die for our own sins, how are we even able to learn anything about life, ourself, evolving as human beings? No one dies for my sins. I DON'T WANT anyone to be responsible for me anyway, as if even there could be such a thing. Are humans so weak, stupid, and inherently unable to account for themselves that they cannot even possibly know themselves enough to be actually responsible human beings?
Do "children of God" ever grow up? Ever become accountable for themselves? Even become real human beings? Or are we destined to be "children" forever, destined to be "sheep" of the herd forever? Look at the world, look at living in the world, look at history itself. How can any one even believe such absurdities? Us humans are already dying for our OWN sins. What we sow, we reap, even tenfold, a hundredfold.
Perhaps I simply do not understand "forgiveness for our sins" or "dying for the sins of humanity." Perhaps any person who is killed because he or she does not seek retribution or revenge or even self-protection does in fact die for the "sins," that is, the ignorance of those with no awareness of who they are or what they doing in bodies on the earth. In that same respect, I also understand what "forgiveness of sins" actually means. To "turn the other cheek," as Jesus is supposed to have spoken, is, then, "to die for the sins (the ignorance) of humanity," and is, in that same respect, to "forgive" the same. And I see that to be able and willing to "turn the other cheek," to "die for the sins of the other," and to thus "forgive" such ignorance, may in fact "redeem one's own soul," for, in forgiving the other, one forgives oneself for one's own sins. Jesus and "God" have nothing to do with this; they are mere characters in the particular story imposed upon believers. For, again as Jesus is supposed to have said, "The kingdom of God is within." So one may in fact turn the other cheek and allow the ignorant one to harm or murder, but this does not allow the sinner to be free of the results of what has been done. Those who sin are still responsible for what they do. "Forgiveness does not let them off the hook." They must still learn to become responsible human beings, however long it may take them. They must still suffer until they learn to be responsible for themselves. To think that we can still behave in ignorance of ourselves because we are "forgiven," because "Jesus dies for our sins," is utterly ridiculous.
I started this essay out on a superficial condemnation of such Christian notions as "forgiveness of sins" and Christ's "dying for our sins" and "redeeming" us, and, as I looked, I came into a deeper and truer understanding of what such what are now Christian cliches actually convey. The ignorant must suffer through life after life of their own karmic results until they learn how to stop making such karma/sin for themselves, and themselves learn and choose to "turn the other cheek." I see that Jesus did "die for our sins" because he did not seek either retribution or self-protection in spite of the fear for his life and for the impending pain and suffering that was to come to him because of his choice and because of the enmity and self-ignorance of other human beings. On the other hand, Jesus did NOT "die for your sins," but rather because he was aware of himself AS those others who killed him and had no true choice but to do it as he did.
