(July 11, 2021 at 3:56 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: Frankly, it is a marvel that GOD would not only reverse this sentence on behalf of many undeserving (not all), but willingly do so at such Personal expense/suffering to Himself in the Person of the Lord JESUS, the CHRIST - GOD Incarnate. (John 1:14).
The personal expense to Himself?! What about all the pogroms and persecution of Jews through many generations who were seen as "Christ-killers"?
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just appear in the sky above all Earth and say "I forgive you" instead of insane sadomasochism?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
