(June 2, 2013 at 3:50 am)Consilius Wrote: Rising to life does not reverse what he experienced. What it DOES reverse is death itself. By rising from the dead, Jesus proved that death cannot conquer God and cannot conquer any of us either. Physical or spiritual death is not the end for anybody.
That God would love imperfect human beings enough to die for them is completely his doing. The credit he deserves for being magnaminous is his. Jesus' sacrifice is a gift to humans from God.
It's not a gift if it was his idea that it needed to be done in the first place. Why not just save humans because he loves us? That would have made more sense. But no, you propose he decided he needed to sacrifice himself, to himself, to appease himself. I wouldn't call that love. I'd call that crazy.
