RE: Sin & Forgiveness
October 25, 2015 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2015 at 10:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You know there might be a simpler, less human hating explanation for this, lol. As a rule, we imagine forgiveness for sin because we are decent beings. We feel guilt, shame and remorse when we've wronged someone (or even when we -think- we've wronged someone). These experiences are painful and lingering, and so an offer of release can be appealing. We do more than -just- imagine it, of course. We offer it, we arrange for it, we do work.
Consider this. Why do people try frantically to escape when you have their thumb under a screw? Are they just looking for the easy way out? The implication here is less than subtle, and..I think, as inapplicable to this scenario as it is to the christian focus on forgiveness. Perhaps christians focus on this because things like remorse, guilt, shame, and forgiveness are important to human beings -regardless of whether or not they are important to a god, or there is any divine offer at hand. Isn't your own concept of karma (btw, not "simple cause and effect"...we have a term for simple cause and effect..."simple cause and effect") a way of institutionalizing the very same concepts?
Believers often think that their beliefs are applicable to everyone on the planet, btw, it's one of their less endearing quirks.
Consider this. Why do people try frantically to escape when you have their thumb under a screw? Are they just looking for the easy way out? The implication here is less than subtle, and..I think, as inapplicable to this scenario as it is to the christian focus on forgiveness. Perhaps christians focus on this because things like remorse, guilt, shame, and forgiveness are important to human beings -regardless of whether or not they are important to a god, or there is any divine offer at hand. Isn't your own concept of karma (btw, not "simple cause and effect"...we have a term for simple cause and effect..."simple cause and effect") a way of institutionalizing the very same concepts?
Believers often think that their beliefs are applicable to everyone on the planet, btw, it's one of their less endearing quirks.
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