(July 1, 2013 at 9:41 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: And yet I can forgive others without having to kill my own son or bleed all over a cross.Could you forgive someone who raped you? What if they had raped you 3 times a day for 10 years? What if they raped 3 times a day for 30 years? What if they are still raping you, and will continue to do so for the rest of your life? Now what if the whole planet decided to do that? Now what if every man woman and child who ever lived or ever will live did that every day their whole lives? Could you just forgive everyone each time they did that for as long as they lived?
When you compare apples to apples you will find your ablity to forgive is conditional, and very limited. God's forgiveness is also conditional (in that you must accept it on his terms) but is limitless. It is limitless because of what He endured to provide true limitless forgiveness, for the whole world. not just one or two people that have wronged you a couple of times.
Quote: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?I seriously doubt you can drive to work and not get angry if someone cut you off repeatedly, let alone truly forgive the sins of the whole world.
Quote: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?I don't understand your question. Why would there be anything greater?
