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Originally Posted by sworkhard
Are his teachings important? Sure they are, but primarily in how they contribute to his death and establish him as the Messiah and as both god and man. Christians teach he was a perfect man (possible only because he was also god) who did not sin and as a result, his death and descending into hell payed for believers sins as opposed to his own.
However, more important than the death itself, is Christ's resurrection from the dead, as without that, he couldn't 'judge the living and the dead.' The theory is that on judgement day, Christ, having paid for believers sins by death and hell, will atone for the sins of his people (believers/the living) saving them from the wrath of god the father allowing them to go to heaven and not for everyone else (non-believers/the dead).
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Are you saying Jesus went to Hell for those 3 days he was dead?
Also, who is God to Jesus? stepDad? uncle?