(July 5, 2014 at 12:18 am)Esquilax Wrote:(July 4, 2014 at 8:21 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: God obviously has made some concessions based on man's sinfulness. For example, God hates divorce and this was never a part of his original plan. Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning." Matt 19:8.
I always laugh, when people talk about the concessions god had to make. It's pretty hard to square the god who'll turn a woman to salt for disobeying him in the tiniest of ways, annihilate entire cities because they weren't obeying him, and destroy nearly all life on the planet because one species wasn't doing what he said, with this hand wringing, conciliatory god who, apparently, can't do shit without working within human reality. He's god, Rev! He can get things done without first checking with his goddamn supervisor!
Yeah that always reminds me of the way a car sales team works. The guy you're actually talking to -Jesus- would just love to get you that price with everything you want on the car. But he has to get approval for the sale from his supervisor. As much as he wants to help you out, what can he do? He's not the boss. Harder to make that work when the same guy is playing both parts.
