Gnostic Bishop
Bluelighter
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Christianity is based on substitutionary atonement. Is it amoral religion?
The case of substitutionary atonement that I wish to speakof is when God deemed it moral and just to punish his innocent son Jesus, ---instead of punishing the guilty sinners that God was to condemn.
The strange part of this situation is that God had chosen tosacrifice Jesus even before the potential for sin was created, --- God had yetto create the earth, --- showing that what God was killing Jesus for, --- hehad yet to create.
This was an arbitrary choice for God that was completelyneedless. God could have chosen to punish the guilty, --- what most calljustice, --- or God could have found a moral way to forgive us. Instead, Godchose to do the unjust and punish the innocent instead of the guilty.
The sacrifice was to pay or bribe God to change his usualpolicy of punishing the guilty to immorally punishing Jesus. God could haveshown mercy and justice but instead decided to use an unjust method to forgiveus.
That means that to be a good Christian, you have to acceptand embrace the immoral tenet of human sacrifice and the notion that the bestform of justice, --- when one wants to forgive someone, --- is to kill an innocentparty.
As above so below.
At the end of days, God is to bring his law to earth.
Would you, as an innocent party, think it just if Godpunished you instead of the guilty?
Do you think that Jesus would ever preach such an immoralform of justice?
Regards
DL
The case of substitutionary atonement that I wish to speakof is when God deemed it moral and just to punish his innocent son Jesus, ---instead of punishing the guilty sinners that God was to condemn.
The strange part of this situation is that God had chosen tosacrifice Jesus even before the potential for sin was created, --- God had yetto create the earth, --- showing that what God was killing Jesus for, --- hehad yet to create.
This was an arbitrary choice for God that was completelyneedless. God could have chosen to punish the guilty, --- what most calljustice, --- or God could have found a moral way to forgive us. Instead, Godchose to do the unjust and punish the innocent instead of the guilty.
The sacrifice was to pay or bribe God to change his usualpolicy of punishing the guilty to immorally punishing Jesus. God could haveshown mercy and justice but instead decided to use an unjust method to forgiveus.
That means that to be a good Christian, you have to acceptand embrace the immoral tenet of human sacrifice and the notion that the bestform of justice, --- when one wants to forgive someone, --- is to kill an innocentparty.
As above so below.
At the end of days, God is to bring his law to earth.
Would you, as an innocent party, think it just if Godpunished you instead of the guilty?
Do you think that Jesus would ever preach such an immoralform of justice?
Regards
DL
