'For the wages of sin is death...' Romans 6:23. 'for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,' Romans 3:23. It doesn't matter who you are, if you live on earth, you have sinned, and you are not worthy of heaven, God and even life.
This relies entirely on the amoral premise that anyone who worships someone other than the Judeo-Chrstian God, or covets another person's belongings, or makes an idol, is worthy of death.
It relies on the retarded and amoral premise that, somehow,
all of humanity bears responsibility for what two individuals supposedly did 6000 years ago, and that this great "crime" is worthy of death (the crime, of course, being mere disobedience over eating a fruit).
The ridiculous Jewish/Christian guilt complex starts with faulty premises and runs them straight to their absolutely immoral conclusion.
So God has the right to take our lives because we have sinned, but He usually doesn't because of His love and grace.
By this same idiotic logic, a parent should have the right to kill a child if the child disobeys even once, and the child lives only through the parent's "love and grace."
Death is never God's fault. Period. It is Satan's, and ours. If Lucifer had never become jealous of God, then he wouldn't have come to earth with sin. We don't have to do wrong, we choose to.
Of course it's God's fault. He's the one who
makes the damned rules! He
could just say "Well, I didn't make you perfectly, so I forgive you." Or he could have, you know,
not made ridiculously immoral rules that all carry a death sentence!
And when God specifically slaughters all of the firstborn of Egypt as "punishment" for something he forced Pharoah to do, or when he floods the entire world, or commands the Hebrews to kill every man, married woman and male child (but take the unwed girls to be
forced brides for raping), it's God's fault. No questions asked.
'For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life.' John 3:16. God loves us so much that He died for us. Even if only one human had sinned, He still would have died. That's how much He loves you.
He loves you so much that he sentences you to death for doing what he created you to do (we are incapable of never coveting what others have)? He loves you so much that he sends you to Hell (which the Bible explicitly states is an eternal lake of fire, not just a permanent death) if you don't believe in his particular fairy tale?
He sacrifices himself
to himself to pay the price
he set in the first place, but resurrects himself after 3 days so that any "sacrifice" is more of a temporary, painful inconvenience?
You're making statements that aren't supported by scripture, gen. You're not reading any of the text critically to see what it
actually says, and you're wearing blinders to prevent you from seeing the atrocities. When you can't deny it, you try to say "well, it's okay if
God does it," as if there is
ever a justification for specifically murdering children or taking the girls of a defeated tribe as forced brides (in other words, they're going to be raped).
Here's a little story:
There's a woman, somewhere in the Southern US, who has a beautiful 6-year-old girl. She's happily married to a wonderful husband, and they are very active in their Church. In fact, the doctors told her a long time ago that she'd never have a baby - but they prayed and prayed, and God blessed them with their wonderful baby girl! Everyone agreed it was a miracle, and they thank God for their daughter every day.
One day, the mother hears a voice from heaven. The voice tells her that she needs to take her daughter, who she loves very much, and draw a bath. She is then to drown her daughter as a sacrifice to God.
The mother is very sad, because she loves her daughter. But she heard the voice of God, and her daughter was, after all, God's gift - He has the right to take it away.
She draws a bath, and calls to her daughter. When the little girl asks her mother why she is crying, she lies and says she has something in her eye, but that it's bath time.
Then she dunks her little girl's head in the water, and holds it there while she kicks and struggles.
But wait! Suddenly she hears God's voice again, and this time the voice tells her that she's proven her faithfulness, and that she should stop drowning her daughter! She's so relieved to not have to kill her baby, and she thanks God for His mercy.
She pulls the little girl from the water. She's coughing, and sputtering. She's absolutely terrified, becasue her own mother just nearly killed her. She's wet herself. For the rest of her life, she'll be terrified of any amount of standing water. She'll bear the emotional scars of being
nearly murdered by her mother for the rest of her life.
We would, of course, say that this woman had a mental disorder. Maybe postpartum depression, though 6 years is a bit late for that. The motehr would go to jail as soon as anyone found out about what had happened, her Church would pray for her while condemning her actions...
...all the while forgetting that God likes to do this sort of thing, as shown in Genesis 22:
quote:
22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. "And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son."
22:11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
22:12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Think on
that.
Every time a fundy breaks the laws of thermodynamics, Schroedinger probably kills his cat.
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