Matthew's Journal

Having been studying this in some depth recently, your poll isn't helping much ;-). In other words, I've been trying toget to the bottom of what I think about this, and failing somewhat. However, I know that I don't believe in atonement theory (that Jesus died to go to hell and suffer for all our sins before being resurrected).I think that the cross is a moral example of true obedience: Jesus knew what would happen if he continued along the path God had put him on, and he did it anyway.However he had died, I believe he would have been resurrected, and what ever happened to him, I believe he would have remained without sin. However, the time and place he was in led him to be crucified. Thus the cross shows us what it may cost us to completely follow the path of righteousness.