RE: Is it egotistical to think that a God would die for you?
June 2, 2013 at 5:31 pm
(This post was last modified: June 2, 2013 at 5:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't see any evidence of jesus having done anything - but more importantly, how this could even be achieved is left a mystery. I'll keep my own actions and their consequences - the good and the bad, thank you. This whole sin business is less than wrong - it's meaningless. No magic? So I guess magic is off the table now as a mechanism for this whole taking up of "sins" as well.
It's clear that we're working from a vastly different idea of what the word justice means. I'd call the non-event you're describing an act of depravity and injustice. Punishing one for the sins of another? Withholding consequence n one by the virtue of the actions of another? That doesn't fly here, in our system of justice. Why would I hold a god to a lesser standard than I hold men?
A murderer being truly sorry does not expatiate the consequences of his actions. He serves a sentence. "Not guilty" is what gets you off the hook, not "really, really sorry".
It's clear that we're working from a vastly different idea of what the word justice means. I'd call the non-event you're describing an act of depravity and injustice. Punishing one for the sins of another? Withholding consequence n one by the virtue of the actions of another? That doesn't fly here, in our system of justice. Why would I hold a god to a lesser standard than I hold men?
A murderer being truly sorry does not expatiate the consequences of his actions. He serves a sentence. "Not guilty" is what gets you off the hook, not "really, really sorry".
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