I do believe that the blood of Jesus, shed on the cross, provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sin. And I do believe that God freely offers salvation to anyone who places their faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus as sufficient payment for their sin.
Why faith? Why are we expected to believe what is written in old scrolls?
Exactly. If there is a god that wants us to believe and follow certain things then why not just appear in undeniable fashion now to the whole world and tell us straight up. Why all this ancient mystery bullchit? Why must I trust the word of 2000 year old goat herders who believed in all manner of superstious crap and thought the earth was flat. People who were ignorant of and wrong about most things concerning the nature of the earth and the universe. If this is the best plan god can come up with to spread the truth of his word then we must have been assigned a seriously incompetent god.
