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So today, I would like to begin with a question that if you are a Christian,

you may have been afraid to ask because it's like, I don't, can we ask questions like that?

So I'm just going to say maybe what you were thinking. But it's also a question

that you may have asked in the past and it's why you're not a Christian anymore

or it's why you lost faith, right? It's a question you had the courage to ask

and asking the question, it became an off-ramp to faith or maybe undermine your faith.

And so here's the question. Why can't the Christian God just forgive and forget?

I mean, can we ask that right? It's like, why did somebody have to die for somebody else's sins?

Is it okay to ask that? I mean, it's God. God could just do whatever God wants to do, right?

So what's with all the dying? I mean, you forgive people all the time without dying for them.

In fact, you forgive people all the time without requiring someone to die.

So if we could, for just a minute, those of us who are Christians and if you're not a Christian,

you're like, yes, exactly. This is why I'm not a Christian. It's about time.

One, if you ask this, obvious question. If we could just for a moment,

and I'm with you, step outside our faith system for a minute and just kind of look at it,

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