RE: Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?
June 15, 2016 at 11:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 15, 2016 at 11:35 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 15, 2016 at 10:57 pm)Thomas Kelly252525 Wrote:(June 15, 2016 at 10:08 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: But why couldn't your god negate the danger without the sacrifice?
Why not just forgive humanity without torturing his son (which is also himself)?
Was he unable to do so?
Simon Moon,
You might think of it as like a war in which people must die for the sake of everyone else or evil prevails.
False analogy.
No actor in the war scenario has magical abilities to stop the war.
In your god scenario, we are in your god's universe, with rules that he created.
Why couldn't he make the rules such that, there was no need for a blood sacrifice? Why couldn't he just forgive humanity?
I was once in a hit and run accident where I sustained some minor injuries and a totaled car. I have long ago forgiven the other driver. I did not need his apology, financial compensation, or even his punishment by the legal system. I just forgave him.
And let me add, that I truly don't require his offspring to apologize, or compensate me financially, or be legally punished for something their father was guilty of. Wouldn't you consider that immoral?
Why am I able to do something that god seems unable to?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
