Last year when I went to distribute Memorial Invitation, I had a bad time talking to a house-holder who happened to be an ex-nun. She said: “You are wasting your time. Jesus had no idea that his death would have a sin-atoning value (which is of course a later invention by later theologians. Jesus was very clear about his future role when he said: ‘“Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.” (Mathew 16:27) “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.” (2 Corinthians 5:10) Anyone can prove whatever he wants from the Bible. Yet what Jesus declared did not come true even in his own life: “Whoever takes up the sword shall perish by the sword. And he did not take the sword, yet perished on the cross.”’
Though I had answer from the Bible, I knew that it was not going to work with her. Yet I was deeply affected by her statement:
“Anyone can prove whatever he wants from the Bible.”