Helpless babies

 [I wrote this intending to send it to my pastor, but I doubt he has time to read or any interest in reading it]

It seems like the anger etc. over not getting their food fast enough would most likely stem from distrust.  And how many babies would grow up with nutritional deficiencies if babies were not making an uproar about lacking food?  Babies are not aware of the inconvenience their tantrums pose or the limitations of their parents.  Babies also don't have the reasoning with which to "take a look in the mirror".  Of course you don't have to teach babies disobedience.  God didn't need to learn disobedience either.  The importance of authority IS something that babies need to learn and God didn't need to learn that because He's the one who created it.  Not to mention God was never a baby.  I highly doubt Jesus was born with 20/20 vision able to discern weather his mom was too distracted watching soap operas to care if he was hungry and able to figure out "ok, obviously she's getting the lid off of the peanut butter....so, and so, must equate....". If Jesus was resigned to die at the hands of man's neglect if it so shall be from the second He was born, then, only immense peace flowing from The Holy Spirit would have made that possible.

Just seems rather judgemental to be picking on helpless babies who just want to eat.  Not like they cry for no good reason in the first place.  Patience and understanding are far from a babies' capacity.  That doesn't seem to me to be a case of "suppressing the truth in unrighteousness".

I'm also confused as to how someone could be dumb enough to think that we create or in any way orchestrate our salvation.  God created man and everything about man.  It certainly wasn't my idea for God to send His son to die to atone for my sins.  If I were to ever think to ask God to be pleased with me, that dynamic certainly would not have been my first thought.  Or my second or even 15th....  I mean, honestly, if it were up to me, I wouldn't have to painstakingly "put sin [self] to death", but rather my nature would be changed, and viola, I'd ACTUALLY play NO part in my salvation, but it would ALL be God, instead of hearing people SAY that...

Re Christ

 https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14DnkGyxy9w/?mibextid=xfxF2i

"Who has believed our message

    and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,

    and like a root out of dry ground.

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,

    nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

He was despised and rejected by mankind,

    a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.

Like one from whom people hide their faces

    he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

 Surely he took up our pain

    and bore our suffering,

yet we considered him punished by God,

    stricken by him, and afflicted.

 But he was pierced for our transgressions,

    he was crushed for our iniquities;

the punishment that brought us peace was on him,

    and by his wounds we are healed.

 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,

    each of us has turned to our own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

    the iniquity of us all."

Christ means Messiah.  

Mary, mother of Jesus was not some angelic being. She was a devout Christian, which we are all called to be. She didn't practice "Christianity" the way that Christians do today, but she believed the words of God, to the best of her ability, which is all God requires of us. To believe them and act accordingly. The sufficiency of scripture can be exaggerated like it's literally EVERYTHING a person needs, which is true if you don't want to live on this earth another day. If you want a chance of survival on Earth, you need, for starters, God Himself, His sustaining power, not just words written that speak ABOUT His power. But if you're believing things about God that aren't in The Bible, then how do you distinguish truth from lies?! You may as well believe what the Quran says about God.