(August 1, 2014 at 3:57 pm)frasierc Wrote: A human analogy might be: if you crashed my car rather than requiring you to pay the cost of fixing (which would be a just thing to do) I show you mercy and bear the cost myself. In one way I am just simply forgiving you for crashing my car - but in order to do that I'm paying the consequences your action deserved.
You're always going to run into problems with analogies when you try to explain God's actions using humans.
In that situation, God could magic his car better and would not need to spend any money to fix it or require any money from you. And that's what I'm saying in the OP: either God can fix this problem, or he's somehow beholden to it. The answer I keep getting from the apologists is "God won't just magically fix his car because it's not in his nature, cuz reasons."
