(October 10, 2009 at 12:51 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: I don't think so. If he's really "God", if he's 'all-powerful' and 'all-loving', then why does he need to incarnate himself as a human and get himself tortured by 'sinners' in order to forgive their sins by putting those sins onto him? Why can't he do that without getting himself tortured? How crudely barbaric a method of forgiving sins, for a so called benevolent God IMO.
God is just so can't simply forgive sins. Justice calls for a payment for sin, but mercy calls for forgiveness, so Jesus pays the price for our sin instead of us.
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Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
