Why We Need A Savior.........Or Do We?

I was browsing through some random blogs tonight when I came across one that was titled “Atone”. One of the articles was regarding Rob Bell who wrote “Love Wins”. From what I could tell it was simply a restating of what others had said in their review of the book. The big issue they had with Rob Bell was his questioning of whether or not hell exists and if it does why would that be acceptable to God. The blog took issue with this because they feel it negates the need for a Savior. So I have thought about that………what did Jesus come to save us from if he did? Did he really only come to save us from an afterlife spent in Hell? If that is what he came to do then why didn’t he just say that. Why all the teaching about how to live this life. It would seem to me that Jesus was more interested in life here on earth than he was in some afterlife. So I don’t think he came to save us from Hell. So do we really need a Savior? I think so……we need a savior to love us because we loathe ourselves. We need a Savior to forgive us because we can’t forgive ourselves. We need a Savior to listen to us because we don’t have a clue how to listen whether it’s to ourselves or to others. We need a Savior to walk with us because we so often run others off who would walk with us. We need a Savior for many reasons but I don’t find the afterlife to be a real compelling reason for a Savior. We need a Savior to redeem us from well…us. We have turned on ourselves and we have separated ourself from the part of us that recognizes God. We can’t see the good in ourselves so how could we ever recognize the God in us…….we are made in God’s image but we spend a lifetime trying to erase that image from our heart and our mind. We don’t believe we are worthy to be made in God’s image…….That is why we need a Savior……..to save us from ourselves and put us back together.