Substitutionary Atonement! WTF?

[Chad32]

If that's how things were I could blame him for not making himself known to me. The only thing I have heard of God are ridiculous stories which are completely out of step with the world I live in. To make matters worse, there are a plethora of other similar stories of other gods, all equally ridiculous.

For God to create the bizarro universe you describe and not make himself known makes him culpable of all the people who end up in Hell because they were unaware of his existence.

 But He has, you are arguing against Him, if you had no idea at all you would not be having this conversation. 
Being out of step with this world is exactly what God wants from us, He has said to us, "be holy as I'm holy." God meant that He is nothing like sinful man and that we are to be nothing like the sinful world.

Yes there are many stories about many gods and what those gods have done, yet none have given such a price as the God of the Bible has to redeem man back to himself.
 
 God did not create a bizarro universe, man's sin cause all of creation to be cursed. Before sin this universe was perfect and the only humans that ever saw it in that condition were Adam and Eve. Those who are unaware of Christ will be judged by God in a just and fair way according to His will. However there is enough of the original creation left that God has said that no man can look at the natural world and be without excuse of knowing He created it. Thus knowing He does exist.

GC

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[hide]Who the fuck comes up with this shite!
I like it, but only because it sounds like divine legal gobbledygook. lol!

"Yeah, I know I killed all those people your honour, because I'm a sick fuck, but hey, here, take my 90 year old father instead and we'll just call it even!
  (*whispers* shhhh... don't tell anyone but the old man's got cancer and will be dead anyway soon!)

And people really believe God would come up with stuff like this? When he can make anything happen anyway? Pretty bloody convoluted isn't it?

Obviously it wasn't God as it wasn't "invented" until the middle ages (below).

As an ignoramus, I'm genuinely curious now to know what core beliefs in the current modern day bible are actually original?


https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/artic...atonement/

 All the references you have given comes from "critics," what were you expecting critics to say and how do you believe that they being critics would impress Christians. 

 Christ's death pays for all the sin of those who accept Him as their savior. He is our atonement, that is covering, when God the father see those who have chosen Christ He sees His Son's perfection and thus we are forgiven of our violations against Him, making us sinless in His eyes. This has been the most important thing in the scriptures from the OT through the NT, it is not a middle age concoction. Also to rescue us from a fallen world someone perfect had to die for us, our death can not even pay/atone for our sins. Our physical death is the result of our sin, the eternal punishment is for those who die with their sin, the Christian dies a forgiven person, sinless.

GC

Yes, there are other stories about gods dying for people and rising back up. Jesus wasn't the only one who did that. And yes, Yahweh is a lot like Human dictators who demand worship, and kill you if you don't. He didn't have to curse the world, but he did. The bible chronicles his repeated failures at dealing with Humanity, though he only ever seems to have one solution to the problem. And even when he sacrifices himself to himself, he admits it won't really work.