(November 17, 2017 at 10:05 am)Khemikal Wrote: What is there to ask about, and what kind of responses do you give when asked questions? You feel that you've done something so terrible that the only way out is the death of another.
Simple, straightforward......still horrible, nothing left to wonder. Is there some detail or minutiae that will alter that summary?
Your point is not simple, it's simplistic (and I suspect intentionally so).
It has nothing to do with what I feel. Sin creates a barrier (because of God's essential holiness) and an obligation to satisfy (because of God's essential justice). The choice is to leave the barrier in place and pay for the consequences defined by God's justice OR accept that he has provided a method to remove each person's individual barrier and satisfy the justice. To be clear, absent outside help, there is nothing we are capable of doing that can remove the barrier and the only satisfaction of divine justice is our death. The only way both the barrier could removed and the satisfaction of justice could be accomplished is if God himself removed the barrier and satisfied the justice by paying for our sins prior to our death and imparting holiness on us in the process.
