Without the Shedding of Blood There is No Remission of Sin

[Rhondazvous]

I'm not concerned about being intellectual.  Your posts show that you are very emotionally upset about the christian image of God.  You hold him to standards that you have set for him, but God isn't required to live by our standards.  I don't know why God demands blood for sin. He's the one who created everything.  I just know that he does and that he loves us enough to shed that blood himself for us.  Since your posts seem to contain a lot of angry statements and call God names like you do above, I was trying to determine if you don't believe because you think he's rotten.  I'm trying to get an understanding of where you're coming from.  You call yourself a happy heathen and I'm not sure if it means you're an atheist or not.  That's why I asked.

It's not god that we call names but the god that the church invented. I'll say it again, I don't start with Jesus shedding his blood. I start with your god setting things up for Adam to sin and then making up this blood requirement for the sin he set up. Doesn't god take some responsibility for his own part in this and become a sinner himself in need of atonement for the sin he caused Adam to commit?

No god doesn't have to live by our standards, nor do we have to live by the standards the church made up and claimed were god's. You can't make up this blood thirsty god and then try to understand why we don't love him.