Christ saves from sin and death
Beloved of God, Jesus did not come to tell bad people to "stop sinning and be good, or else...." He came to raise the dead (in sins) to life in Himself. He knows that sin is man's default mode and that all of us would be sinning copiously but for God's mercy by which we are not consumed by horrid sins and Job-type calamities, even though many boast in their strength to stand, like Peter before his denials expressed to him man's true nature. Those same sins and addictions that you struggle with which antichrist church leaders hang over your head as why you cannot dine with Christ on God's freely-given health, provision, protection and in general, eternal life in Christ Jesus, God so loved you and I that He gave His own Son to die that we might live His kind of life: eternal life which begins here on earth. Christ gave His life to free us from every kind of sin and much more-- "He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make ...