If God wanted to forgive our sins, why didn’t he simply do so? Seriously, proclaiming ‘Thou art forgiven’ seems a lot more Godlike than kinda-sorta-but-not-really sacrificing himself to himself in a carnival of blood and torture that would make Dario Argento gulp with disbelief.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson