(July 1, 2013 at 9:27 am)Drich Wrote: We understand tremendous physical pain and a horrible death. Now we can somewhat understand the Spiritual cost of Atonement. In that it wasn't just an after thought or something as easy as flipping on a switch. There was a great cost. This is the sacrifice.
And yet I can forgive others without having to kill my own son or bleed all over a cross.
Not that such activities would in any way enhance one's ability to forgive (the point of the question in the OP) but why am I more capable of forgiving than your god?
Does your god make the rules or not? Is there a higher power or stronger force that outranks your god and requires a "great cost" to atonement?
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
