I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody
human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.
Not exact matches
Reality quotes a paradiddle,»... Moreover, an atonement theology that says God
sacrifices his own
son in place
of humans who needed to be punished for their sins...» TThey ddon't bbelieve God iis jjust.
God
sacrificed his only
son, the only innoce3nt
human in history, he sufferd the shame
of occupying a
human body and then he lived his whole life without sin, and let himself be wrongly accused and executed that our sins may be traded and washed away by the blood
of the lamb
of God.
An» «angry Father» [contemplates] the disobedience
of man in
human sin, decrees to condemn [us] to eternal death... Against which sentence
of divine justice the
Son interposes Himself... so that in His total
sacrifice «the Father is appeased».»
Not only in the glory
of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky
of the Alps» and not only in his misericordia did God share with us insight into the special characteristics
of his love, but also in sending us a
human model
of it in sending us his
Son, who called us his friends, and
sacrificed his life for us.
If losing an only
son is so much
of a
sacrifice, why wouldn't God just impregnate another
human woman or two?
Christians worship a god who, for some reason, decided that he must
sacrifice his
son, so he could forgive the imperfectness
of humans that he made to be imperfect.
Human sacrifice: a burning bush tell Abraham to kill his
son (
of course, only at the last second does God say «naaaaah, just kidding»)
And then Jesus said, «
Human sacrifice!!!! Who came up with this Neanderthal idea!!? How dare you bring shame onto the
Son of Man with this evil, vile, wicked, sickening, immoral piece
of Cro Magnon lunacy!!!
The idea, however, that we as
humans are so important to the universe's creator that we required the bloody violent
sacrifice of his
son, that is to say himself, seems strangely arrogant considering how minor a part
of the universe we are.
G - D, this volcano you speak
of probably just needs a
human sacrifice to calm it, you know like the barbarians
of old used to do when they did not understand something, or maybe offer up your first born
son to your invisible man in the sky, blood always seems to calm him down, it may ease your «righteous» anger as well.
It would make more sense if Jesus, a compassionate
human being, offered himself to the blood - thursty God as a self -
sacrifice for the benefit
of all mankind, but the Christian understanding
of the mission God sent his
son on, and its purpose, is just wonky.
«Moreover, an atonement theology that says God
sacrifices his own
son in place
of humans who needed to be punished for their sins might make some Christians love Jesus, but it is an obscene picture
of God.
Then, you say, the preacher in a long discourse expounded the idea that man's sin is justly answered by God's wrath, and that the righteous wrath
of God can be satisfied only by an infinite
sacrifice which no
human being can make — only the
Son of God himself, who by dying on Calvary made God's forgiveness pos - sible.
Picking up 7 years after the «good» ending
of Infamous 2, in which perennial Christian Bale Batman voiced Cole MacGrath
sacrificed his life and those
of his fellow Conduits to rid the normal
human population
of a plague, Second
Son introduces us to Delsin Rowe, an American Indian post - teen / pre-adult who consistently finds himself on the wrong side
of Misdemeanor Lane.