Why did God forgive our sins?

We are responsible for the evil we do. How are we responsible for great white sharks and flesh-eating bacteria?Edited by ringo, : Too many esses, my Preciousss.Edited by ringo, : Cross-eyed keyboard.

So where does God come in at all? What business is it of His to forgive us? If we are solely responsible for our actions, what good is His forgiveness? To tempt us to play with great white sharks and flesh-eating bacteria?

How does playing with great white sharks and flesh-eating bacteria make us stronger? But nobody does have a clean record. If they did there would be nothing to forgive. And expunging the record serves no purpose if God is both the record-keeper and the employer. So back to my original question: Why do people who claim to commune with God often seem to be completely clueless? Why do they worship the messenger while vigorously ignoring the message?Edited by ringo, : Fpellng.

Because, as I've said more than once, those who claim to commune with God, who claim they have God-given wisdom, don't seem to have much sense. The wisdom which results from communion seems more like a subtraction than an addition.Edited by ringo, : Punctuation?

It's because the God character is unreliable that we can only rely on ourselves. What I'm saying is that in many people who claim to have "communion", it seems to be a negative effect. I'm not open to negative effects. But in your scenario, the helicopter crewman puts a gun to my head and says, "Come with us or else." Given that choice, I definitely would rather ride out the hurricane. If there is a God who actually exists, He doesn't have to be afraid to show Himself to me.

I believe mankind will become extinct - but not in my lifetime.

The outcome has nothing to do with whether or not we can quantify the probability. Getting a particular outcome is pure luck whether you can predict it or not.

Nobody said it did. Nonsense. It's important to distinguish between situations where we can predict exact outcomes and situations where we can't. If you fire a shotgun out the window, you can predict that there will be a bad outcome. If you bet on seven, you can't. Betting depends on luck. Firearms often do not.