(June 15, 2016 at 11:22 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(June 15, 2016 at 10:57 pm)Thomas Kelly252525 Wrote: 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.
Why am I able to do something that god seems unable to?
Simon Moon,
Because humans must choose to work to gain life otherwise we'd be like robots with no potential to live. Life would have no meaning.
