Prove it.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn

@muriel, by now you should begin to get the picture. Do going to heaven require somebody to die? Does God say "Someone has to die in order for you to get saved?" Does God say "I come down and became man, and die in order for me to forgive you"?

Simply stated: it means that if you repent God will forgive you. If God forgives you, there is no need of any sacrifice. I read somewhere where Jesus (pbuh) taught saying in Matt 9:12-13:
"Go and learn what this means: I will have mercy not sacrifice, I am come to call sinners to repentance"

Remember every time Jesus (pbuh) used to remind people that "it is written in the scripture", which in my understanding referred to the old testament. And one of this comes from Hosea 6:6, where Hosea tells people that God is telling them:
"For I desired mercy and NOT sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."

Again we are seeing here that God is saying that He is Most Merciful, ready to forgive any and all sins. And that in order forgive, God does not need sacrifice. This is the knowledge that God wants you to know.

All the other verses people try to use to justify require you to really strain the words and stretch their meaning to arrive at any notion of killing somebody to get salvation.

So what baffles me is why would God require Jesus to sacrifice himself? Is this not a contradiction, among the many biblical contradictions?

Please again, no offence. I'm just seeking rational dialogue from those who would like to explain this to me. God does not need sacrifice. It is very explicit.
There are no two ways about it. It is very clear, decisive and to the point.

Alphdoti,

A picture formed in my mind a long long long time ago. A picture of how lazy you are to answer questions.

And how bankrupt you are of articulation.
And how you do not read the Qurán.
And how you know nothing of the Qur'an.
And how apostate you are in disbelieving allah.

After you have finished talking to yourself about irrelevant things, like a madman sokoni, please acknowledge to me whether or not you believe that Allah, who said that they ransomed a boy, actually did ransom the boy.

Hiyo tu.

Other discussions, or 'rational dialogue' you purport to want you are absolutely free to have them with someone else, not me, not now.

There is a certain religion I realized, has to be defended coz it makes no sense at all. acres and acres of explanations that leave you even more disillusioned
I stopped reading those long boring posts.