(October 1, 2014 at 9:26 am)Hezekiah Wrote: Sure, but who knows what "alternatives" could have been or whether there couldn't have been.
An infinitely powerful god has an infinite number of options. Anything that happens does so because he wants it to, by definition.
(October 1, 2014 at 9:26 am)Hezekiah Wrote: What makes the fact that YHWH takes the form of a man and lives a human life so necessary, is because he can show us and teach us in actions, as well as mark human experience as sacred and a blessing since God was man.
Well, it probably wasn't the best course of action, made evident by how ineffective it was. So far, God's plan has netted him about one third of the population of the world as believers (and that's assuming you count everyone who identifies as Christian and don't start excluding all the "wrong" sects).
You would think if God's goal was to "show and teach us", he would have both
- Done so throughout the globe during all times, as opposed to a three year ministry on an area on the globe the size of a dime.
- Picked a more convincing method that couldn't be dismissed by simply asking "Yabut do you have any evidence for your claims?"
(October 1, 2014 at 9:26 am)Hezekiah Wrote: Also it was humans who were in debt and bound by the law and death, so you need a human to conquer the law and death in order for humans to be free.
Also, he could have simply forgiven the debt; the same way Jesus told us to in numerous parables. Why can't God follow his own advice?
The fact that he sends one third of himself to be sacrificed to appease a different third of himself to pay a debt he instituted, all while telling us to forgive debts to each other looks really... weird, to say the least.
