(January 28, 2015 at 9:25 pm)YGninja Wrote: It might have been simpler, but may not have achieved the ends God intended. Suffering himself, as man, knowing mans suffering, knowing mans tribulations, makes him a person who we can accept to judge us. Being forgiven teaches us to forgive. To be sinless and yet die a sinners death for those you love, teaches us of Gods nature, and inspires us.I don't see how the most advanced and brilliant intellect in the universe would need to experience being human to understand humanity, especially considering that every facet of the human mind and psyche were created by that very being. Nor would he have to come to some sort of understanding in order to set rules and a system of penalty and reward.
Unless there was the risk that he would commit a sin and thus be truly human, his life as a man was a mockery of humanity. To believe the Bible, in all of human history the only human to remain free of sin was god, when he was masquerading as a human. If he did it to understand the human experience, then he apparently did it wrong. What he did experience was barbarity, scheming, and brutal violence, yet the experience did not affect him in the way that one might have assumed. One would have hoped that, having gone through such grueling physical torment, god would have made sure no one ever had to go through that again.
Instead... he invents hell.
"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
