(May 1, 2025 at 10:11 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(May 1, 2025 at 9:53 pm)Alan V Wrote:
It seems to me that a God would have some over-arching plan, instead of it being an arbitrary death for some trivial reason. Did Jesus simply annoy the Roman authorities with his teachings when he should have known better? That makes no sense within the over-arching concept of an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly-good deity. God should have had a better plan unless such a death was required for some purpose.
There's a lot that can be said here. I think a point that often gets overlooked is that Jesus doesn't solely play the role of sacrifice, he also plays the role of a living example. By that I mean he takes on human flesh to prove to us that it is possible for us to live a sinless life. Because it's one thing for an all powerful God to mandate perfection from up in the clouds, and another to put that power aside and physically show us how it's done. To me that's a more interesting subject than the cross.
Why does jesus pick and choose who to give the majik of heaven to @John 6IX Breezy
Seem like a real dick move for a wanabe god.
Matthew 13:10-17
New International Version
10 The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. 12 Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’[a]
16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. 17 For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
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