LISTEN, CHRISTIANS!

[Redbeard The Pink]

Semantic. Bull. Shit.

Also, good job honing in on the easiest point to quibble over and acting like you're done. Regardless of what mental gymnastics you have to do to convince yourself that Jesus was his own daddy without being from Arkansas, you still haven't really addressed the important question: why demand a human sacrifice at all? Why demand a blood sacrifice at all, for that matter?

The logic seems to be that SOMEBODY had to be punished for all that sin, but this begs yet another question: why? What prevents a perfectly benevolent god from forgiving without blood being spilled? I can do that. I do it all the time. Why can I, a flawed human, forgive someone essentially on a whim, while the perfectly benevolent and loving god of the universe has to shed blood?

If it's because it has to be that way whether he likes it or not, then he is not all-powerful, for he can't do something that even I can do and is somehow bound by a set of rules that do not bind me. If it's because he chooses for it to be that way, then he is not perfectly benevolent, for a perfectly benevolent god would simply forgive without demanding anything.

Don't get used to hearing from me, but your theology is flawed. The answer is simple.

The answer to "why" is because God is also perfectly just. And perfect justice demands a redress.

Consequently, at the cross, perfect justice and perfect plant offeringsmercy met.

But again, why? God made everything, including the rules, right? That means he's the one who decided that "perfect justice" means spilling blood. He could have just as easily created a system where good works, plant offerings, or any number of things could have atoned for sin.

Why would a perfectly loving, benevolent, forgiving being define "perfect justice" as death and torture for eternity for even the smallest infraction? If he chose that system, then he is not perfectly loving and benevolent. If he is beholden to that system, then he is not all-powerful.