RE: The Trinity Explained
October 5, 2010 at 5:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2010 at 2:47 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 5, 2010 at 5:32 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Yahweh, being wholly good, cannot commit evil. Evil is the opposing force.
Is Yahweh omnipotent and omniscient or not? If so, whence come evil? why the need to pay for a sin later when he presumably could have studied his own "intelligent" design ahead of time, recognized the inbuilt propensity to sin, and corrected the shortcoming before Garden of Eden?
(October 5, 2010 at 5:34 pm)Watson Wrote: When you love someone, you are usually willing to die for them. No? Now imagine being willing to die for the whole of humanity. Not only dying, but willingly allowing yourself to be hurt, humiliated, and tortured to show your love for all of those people, some of whom couldn't give two shits less about you. All this, without interfering with anyone's free will directly, but helping those who understand be forgiven.
Willing to die for something seems much less a sacrifice when death is but a formality that ends before too long with resurrection. Any tiny residue of sacrifice associated with running a risk in attempting this disappears completely when omnipotence is known to be shepherding the temporarily dead along the path to resurrection. So at best the so called "sacrifice" is a investment fully expected to at least break even. Which is not surprising given how this charade is well received in the modern megachurchs preaching "wealth gospel". Less naive minds might also detect a more than passing resemblence to sadomasochistic sexual fantasies, where the participant suffers convincingly but leaves without lasting harmed in the end; which might account for some of the orgasmatic behaviors common at revival meetings.
If you think he is willing to be hurt, humiliated, and turtured for real, then why the fervent fanatical obsequious praises?
(October 5, 2010 at 5:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(October 5, 2010 at 2:20 pm)Chuck Wrote: Presuming to speak for other religions as well, are we?Absolutely. If they did and I knew about it I'd rationally choose them over my own. Do you know better?
Yes, Buddhism is much less annoying because its followers who I have came into contact with keep their irrationality to themselves and engage their fellow men on a more rational basis. I prefer all religions to fall out of public life, but if they can't all go at once, I would will most others to go before Buddhism.
