I am a Christian - the particularly "brand" is Lutheran but that is not important. I believe God created the earth in 7 days even though it doesn't make sense but He can do anything. I believe He created man to be perfect but we messed up and that is called sin and we all do it. Since God is perfectly Loving but also perfectly Fair, he could not just "put up with it". So he had a plan to become man Himself and that is Jesus who was both God and man at the same time. The plan was for Jesus to die on the cross and that way He took all the punishment for the bad (sin) things we do, so God does not have to punish us, only love us and this is called grace. Jesus took all the anger we deserve when He was on that cross. He actually came back to life (ressurrection) after three days in a tomb and curiously, this has never been disproved as you might expect something so bizzaar to be dispelled. None of it makes sense, but it is all recorded in the Bible which I believe was inspired by the Holy Spirit which is also God in the third person of the trinity. In some mysterious way, when you read that Bible, that Holy Spirit enables you to belief all these hard to believe things and everything about life makes sense again. I believe this all and it makes me feel peace. I believe that the reason I am on earth is to love God, honor and serve Him - because He made me and I belong to Him and He loves me even though I am rotten. When I die, I will be taken back to Him in Heaven. I come from a non-believing home, but reading the Bible brought me to this faith and this is what I believe. Christians are not better than anyone else. In fact, some are much worse.
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