RE: Dear Atheists
November 11, 2016 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2016 at 2:42 pm by Tonus.)
(November 11, 2016 at 2:30 pm)ParagonLost Wrote: The argument is about God who is devastated by sin, and that sin was a offense to his divinity. God sent his son to take our place on the cross and bear the world's sins.
This is what doesn't make sense to me. Was God really "devastated" by something that was built into the creatures that he created to populate a world he created that exists in the universe that he created? And if he was --if the exercise of the freedom to act by his creation was so offensive-- why were his options so limited that only a long and complicated plan that ended with the sacrifice of a temporary human body would do? People forgive one another all the time (for offenses far worse than ignoring their wishes!) without having to spill a single drop of blood. God cannot possibly be forced into anything. The possible solutions to Eve's disobedience are endless, and none of them were outside of the reach of God.
Starting with making sure that snakes couldn't talk a young woman into believing that God was a liar.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
