RE: In a world without God...
June 7, 2013 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2013 at 5:12 pm by Zarith.)
(June 7, 2013 at 4:12 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Exactly. What kind of sacrifice is it when Jesus rose from the dead to sit in Heaven, and eventually return to earth? And especially since Christians get to spend eternity with him when they die?Because no Christian I have ever talked to truly believes in an all-powerful God, despite saying that they do. It is usually the first premise that they jettison in an argument, because it is terribly inconvenient to have to defend.
And again, why would such a sacrifice even be needed when God is supposedly the all-powerful creator of the universe? If he wanted to forgive everyone, he could just do it instead of coming up with this convoluted "I forgive you but only if you worship my son" nonsense.
Most of them believe in some notion that God is ... incapable ... of looking upon, or being around, sin. Therefore some form of cleansing or scapegoating or redeeming or blame-shifting or intercession or whatever has to take place, according to them.
Some of them claim to believe that God can do whatever he wants, but that he just chose to do it the way that he did because that's the way that makes the most sense to us. Right.
I'm with you -- for a religion built upon a single act of 'sacrifice', they sure do have an odd definition of the word 'sacrifice'.
