(March 14, 2014 at 10:03 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: God abides by His own rules He established. He said without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins. He didn't have to die for us and we would of perished in our sins. He chose to spill His blood to pay for our sins.In Mark 2:1-12 Jesus forgives the sins of a man by simply claiming it; no blood is spilled, no life offered in sacrifice. To prove to the doubting pharisees that he had the authority to do so, he cures the man of his paralysis and tells him he can go home.
If god made the rules, he can re-write them. He did, after all. And in the service of showing that he is truly good and benevolent, he could have bypassed this rule as he did in Mark 2. Do you forgive people for the wrongs done to you? Do others forgive you your trespasses against them? Do any of those require so much as the squashing of a housefly? If you can forgive so freely, then so can god. If he can't, then you're better than he is.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
