(August 21, 2013 at 8:17 am)Drich Wrote: The sacrifice was a physical repersentation of the Spiritual 'pain' God went through to provide you with chance at attonement.
If any action on God's part causes him spiritual pain, that asserts limitations and weaknesses in God. A truly all-powerful and all-knowing being could not go through 'spiritual pain' if his every act is good, just and righteous because there can be no doubt or reluctance.
Put another way, it costs God nothing, not time, energy, or even patience, to offer 'atonement', especially when we are 'atoning' for acting according to our nature as he specifically and carefully designed it. It would have been effortless for God to have simply said "I forgive you and require nothing in return", because by definition, God needs nothing in return. The whole Jesus story is a fraud of the worst sort, proven by the fact that the only limitations God ever has are those Christians assign him, so as to make sense of their very senseless fairy tales.
