(November 2, 2017 at 1:51 pm)Chad32 Wrote: You can argue that anyone is good, as long as you heap all the bad parts onto someone else. "We send ourselves to hell" somehow. Just ignore the fact that this god created a plane of torture for those that don't worship him, that everyone goes to by default, because they don't meet a standard that's impossible to reach.
In the context of a "parent" god, the "we send ourselves to hell" excuse doesn't fly. Any decent parent would rescue a child from danger and pain, regardless of how the child got into that mess.
As for the impossible standards, no sane god would set things up in such an absurd way. It's obvious that that particular assertion was designed by apologists to keep people hooked, because if people can fix their own mistakes and pay their own debts, there's no actual need for Christianity.
