Reply #79: That's called the theology of substitutionary death, and it is not

[Lydia Leftcoast]

universally accepted among Christians.

You're very well indoctrinated and can quote the standard evangelical/fundamentalist lines with the best of them, but I come from a tradition that is based on the "three-legged stool" of Scripture, tradition, and reason, and nobody tells me that I have to believe certain doctrines to be on the right path.

"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" Micah 6:8

]"And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, 'Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?'
He said unto him, 'What is written in the law? how readest thou?'
And he answering said, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.'
And he said unto him, 'Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.' Luke 10: 25-28.