Forgive me but that is sadly pedestrian criticism. I hear that sort of out-of-context reasoning from atheists and agnostics all the time. I saw it coming a mile away .Theological ignorance is what your response demonstrates. With a large degree of pomposity along with it ( not unusal)..
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That whole "dying on the cross" thing for one; but if you want a concrete quote,
And, of course, as St. Stephen was dying after being stoned:
Well, you Biblical illiterate, there are your quotes. One from The Man Himself.
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Nonsense. Utter and complete. Your mistakes are classic in every last regard, repeated ad nauseum by faux-Christian Bible quoters going back centuries.
"That whole "dying on the cross" thing for one;"
Not applicable to human beings. The crucifixion was a process which God had Christ undergo in order to cleanse the human race of sin in the most literal sense. Christ was not "showing an example" or encouraging others to allow themselves to be crucified. He was crying out to God to forgive Humanity for crucifying His Son. If you wish to draw a parable from that, it may only extend to those who are grossly ignorant. Christ reserved anger and condemnation for Satan and Satanism, not forgiveness. Evil which is knowing, unrepentant wickedness (such as mass murderers) is not forgiven, not even by Christ.
"And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. (Acts 7:60)"
Again, we are talking about a Saint, not an average person. He was making a statement in relation to avoiding condemnation of the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE and separating the act from the souls. He was not referring to evil people who do not repent of their sins, demons, Satanists or to Satan himself but again to people acting in ignorance. Overt evil and evil people are unworthy of forgiveness. People who act out of ignorance, who believe that they are doing good, are exempted from condemnation. Evil people are to be forgiven ONLY IF THEY REPENT their evil. Salafist fundamentalist militant terrorism-embracing unrepentant mass-murderers are not included in that category.
So save the silly insults for someone who has never studied the topic. Any thing else? Or is that all you have to support your thesis?