Why do Christians make God out to be dumb?

Are you suggesting that these actions were morally wrong? Edited by AdminPD, : Off Topic Warning

I guess your point here is that if God was going to let us off, why did He not do so? Why the sacrifice? The idea makes a little more sense if one thinks of it as a debt that has to be paid.One might theorize that letting us off (not paying the debt) would involve a contradiction of His nature, like making a round square.

Good questions. I guess we could say that in one sense it is like a debt, a moral debt, which must be paid. One pays a moral debt by sacrificing something. In another sense it could be called a poison that has entered into the spiritual blood of mankind which has to be gotten rid of. Adam and Eve are the root and the poison has spread through the entire family tree. The debt is owed to Nature. There's a poison in Nature.It's remindful of a Shakespearian tragedy in which something is rotten in the state of Denmark and so the tragic machinery is set ineluctably in motion, unstoppable until there is once again a balance in Nature through sacrifice.God's Nature is such that it's a contradiction for mankind to be let off without the debt being paid. The structure of the universe is moral.Thinking about it further, I think "poison" makes more sense than "debt."Edited by robinrohan, : No reason given.

This idea runs all through the Bible. Yes, well, what I object to among the liberals is their trying to read into the Bible modern ideas which are not there and to slur over those ancient ideas that are there. I object to bogus interpretations of this nature. But this point is off-topic.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If it's that stupid, I don't know why the liberal Christians keep wanting to re-interpret it. You would think they would just ignore it.

I think I've got a good handle on Shakespearian tragedy. However, the view I was setting forth is traditional (A. C. Bradley).

I was rather shocked to find out recently that you think the Bible was inspired by God.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------