RE: Do Christians worship a suicide victim?
June 17, 2016 at 8:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2016 at 8:07 pm by Simon Moon.)
(June 17, 2016 at 7:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Some things I've often wondered about Christ's death:
1. Why was the sacrifice of God incarnate even necessary? God could simply have said, 'Ok, humans, here's the deal - love me big bunches and you'll get to go to heaven. Don't love me and you get punished.'
I've asked a similar question to Thomas Kelly several times already. He's responded to other points in my posts, but conveniently ignores that one.
To reiterate, why did "God" need the sacrifice at all?
It's his universe, his rules, why not just forgive humanity?
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.
