(July 5, 2015 at 12:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 12:43 pm)Nope Wrote: From Randy's post.
The Hebrew god is supposed to be well, a god. Why does such a powerful being, who was routinely doing miracles, need to make people fear him? His presence, if it is as Christians describe, should have been able to do that without any silly rituals or killing people for innocently touching his relics.
It was better for one man to die so that the others learned to obey God TO THE LETTER than for people to believe that they were free to do whatever they wanted with God's commands.
You ever punish one child knowing that the others would learn from the example?
Does a company ever fire one employee for taking excessively long lunch breaks in order to get the others to shape up?
It happens all the time, and God did what anyone of us would do to teach the people not to mess.
Oh yeah people kill children all the time to teach them not to mess with things.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
