RE: The purpose of god
February 18, 2013 at 6:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2013 at 6:54 pm by fr0d0.)
Everything bad is a sin against God, because God stands for good. He could not be just otherwise.
God is needed in cases where justice cannot be served, because only he can exact it. You don't get to see it.
What is evolved is forgiveness. Primitive justice seeks an eye for an eye. Justice without God is not justice. The justice system falls over with naturalistic morality at its core.
My statement assumes that we know if Dahmer was fogiven for sin. Without coming to God and seeking forgiveness, none is offerred. If he had no understanding of guilt he had no need of God or forgiveness.
You assume that Dahmer was bad, and deserves punishment, by judging what is abhorrent to you. By assuming to know what motivated him. Our justice is limited to human understanding, which is far from perfect. What is the benefit to you or anyone else that someone is punished? Does that make you feel better? Are you deluded into understanding that something has paid the price for some injustice you understand? Do you need to see a sacrifice in order to see balance?
See there's what Xtianity offers... a sacrifice without blood letting. Civilised justice. An understanding of the greater good and that our desire to exact pain for an imbalance, that someone always has to pay for bad stuff, is not good for us. It destroys us just like any person doing bad stuff gets destroyed by it. We need to break the chain. Here's a way to do it.
God is needed in cases where justice cannot be served, because only he can exact it. You don't get to see it.
What is evolved is forgiveness. Primitive justice seeks an eye for an eye. Justice without God is not justice. The justice system falls over with naturalistic morality at its core.
My statement assumes that we know if Dahmer was fogiven for sin. Without coming to God and seeking forgiveness, none is offerred. If he had no understanding of guilt he had no need of God or forgiveness.
You assume that Dahmer was bad, and deserves punishment, by judging what is abhorrent to you. By assuming to know what motivated him. Our justice is limited to human understanding, which is far from perfect. What is the benefit to you or anyone else that someone is punished? Does that make you feel better? Are you deluded into understanding that something has paid the price for some injustice you understand? Do you need to see a sacrifice in order to see balance?
See there's what Xtianity offers... a sacrifice without blood letting. Civilised justice. An understanding of the greater good and that our desire to exact pain for an imbalance, that someone always has to pay for bad stuff, is not good for us. It destroys us just like any person doing bad stuff gets destroyed by it. We need to break the chain. Here's a way to do it.
