But Jesus is the only god that died for your sins.

Yes he did pezus :)

:D

If you wish to use your freedom to sin - why not?

but why would you?  If His death made you righteous, then let's live that way.

It's like being married.  Can a married man live his life as a single guy?  I woud think he could, but it's not advised.

Nope. The bible says no, and the bible teaches salvation, so what it says about its doctrine matters.

Christianity is not meant to be made a license to sin, those who do risk burning of a greater punishment in hellfire (if not found genuine at judgement).

Show the Bible verse that says Jesus died for sins, rather than died for sinners.  And also I understand it isn't just the death, but the resurrection that matters.  And the death, burial, and resurrection weren't to pay for the sin.  The sin is forgiven, but there is an ongoing debt of righteousness that is owned that Jesus continues to pay, and the death, burial and resurrection is part of it.  To say the debt was paid for, and not forgiven, is like to argue that when you go into a bankruptcy court, someone pays the IOUs.  Debts paid are not forgiven.

I am so tempted to make what is being said here to be something like: Jesus loved your sin so much, he died for it.  As for yourself, well you are out of luck.

I hear you.  That's why I didn't make my kids go t sunday school.  I didn't want them to go cause I don't trust what they teach.

And His death and resurrection did make you righteous - so you don't have to go to church.  

Biblically, unless in some unspoken way you believe in Jesus, technically you're going to hell like most other people. "Wide is the gate that leads to perdition, narrow is the gate that leads to salvation".

But those who know the way and use it as a license for sin are in danger of an even greater judgement.

I don't mean to scare you, but it's the topic. Most people are going there anyways, so it shouldn't be a big shock.

1) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00308.x/abstract

2) You said quote: "Chosing your own beliefs seems like you're actually shutting yourself down to what reality is"

I am not sure what you mean by this.

If a person made some nonsense up like, "I believe my dog can figure out algebra" and actually believed it, then yes. I agree.

If you mean that to believe in something with no scientific proof pf existence like a deity, aliens or ghost then billions on this earth must indeed be shutting themselves down to reality.

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You said quote: "The word choice implies that you have no information whatsoever on a certain claim which would make it a virtual coin toss wether you believe something or not".

I am now totally lost here, please truly forgive me.None the less I will try to respond.

I sat on a jury once. We had all available "information on a certain claim" as you said placed before us. The jury was split. No one tossed a coin. Everyone examined the evidence and came to their individual conclusion. The word choice meant in this case each member of the jury got to choose if he or she believed the defendant to be guilty or innocent depending on the evidence.

This is same if it is a court case, a scentific theory or simply something a someone told you. You are given the information and you choose to believe it or not. I really cannot lay it out any more simple than that. 

I believe if I jump of a the roof of a 30 floor building onto the pavement below I would most likely die. I did not believe it when many scientists said with some authority that the largest possible terrestrial planet based on physics can only be 15x earth's mass ( I think it is 15x, either they way they now belive they were wrong), I believed the minority who said  "No, you can possibly get such planets much bigger than 15x earth's mass" based on the theory they laid out. - I cannot produce evidence of this debate as it was in an astronomy journal.

I get to choose what I believe or do not believe base on how I analyse the evidence. I do not toss a coin. Nothing is going to change that.

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I have to leave it here for now. I have been writing this (between doing my work) for quite a while now and it is fast approaching home time and I need to carry doing what pays my bills. I will finish my response later tonight, time available or tomorrow. I will post this now so I don't have to start all over again and to let you know I am still "listening".

Just before I go let me point out that I do not take this as a win-lost argument. I respect your arguments and most of all appreiciate the tone in which you present them, unlike so many others. Not sure of getting me better informed though.

If someone pays for your depts then you are justified.  

I believe it goes further than that.  Jesus' death and resurrection did, once an for all, not just paid for your debt, but inputed His righteousness into you.

so it's more than forgiven, but adopted into His family (to become rich).