Posted: Nov 17, 2019 8:08 pm
Wortfish wrote:Hermit wrote:Wortfish wrote:Moreover, the Christian religion is based on the idea that God sent his Son to suffer and be crucified so that he could show his love for humanity through redemption. That is entirely consistent with a loving God.
Have you never been struck by the absurdity of the omnipotent Christian god's incapability to redeem humanity unless humans kill his son? Ignoring the utter absurdity of this scenario I can only marvel at how much that god must have hated his son.
I see no inconsistency. Someone had to pay the debt for the forgiveness of sins. That meant someone had to suffer.
Why was there a debt in the first place? Only because God decided on it -- even assuming that the Adam and Eve story is true -- which it isn't.
The Christian notion of sin and Jesus' "ransom sacrifice" is completely illogical. It's contradicted by simple genetics. About 27 years ago I wrote an essay about why this notion is ridiculous. I sent it to the Jehovah's Witnesses headquarters and called in a favor to get them to answer it. The answer? "Don't ask unprofitable questions." The debt/ransom idea boils down to: Bad things must come in pairs.
Here's the essay:
God's Justice: Sin, Imperfection, and the Ransom Sacrifice