The God Distraction: Salvation
What can we actually know about salvation, how it can be secured, or if it's even necessary?
Sorry to be so brief here. But it's my birthday and people are trying to take me out. Thanks so much for your continued help. Particularly with this series. We're actually working it into a book with extended chapters. Keep your fingers crossed. And thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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But I think you have the voice of an angel.
Hey D, my 10-year-old daughter thinks that you sound like you haven't gone through puberty.
There is an aspect to the christian concept of salvation that is frankly immoral and reprehensible. Let's pretend, for argument's sake, that there really is some sort of eternal, inflexible, mandatory "regulation" that one cannot enter Mr. Deity's presence unless one's "sins" have been paid for. Why would anyone with a modicum of conscience allow someone ELSE to suffer horrible agony and death to make that payment? Talk about monstrous, cowardly selfishness! I mean, if I've made "unacceptable" mistakes in my life that must be paid for, _I_ should pay for them —and nobody else. If that means eternal condemnation, so be it. I would rather face that than allow an innocent person to be tortured and killed. And what kind of a ~cough~ "perfect" being would demand such a payment, anyway? Spend time and all eternity with such a cruel, sadististic meglomaniac? No thank you! I'd rather choose curtain number 4 and go into outer darkness. What a detestable doctrine!
I get what you are saying, but the "innocent person" in this case is actually the douche bag that is condemning you in the first place. Jesus wasn't some poor sap that just got caught in the middle of all this. I say: "Shit! It is the VERY least he could have done".
And I hope you haven't bought the mistake all of those people seem to make, namely that Adam's sin brought spiritual death (being denied God's presence seems like a boon, not a bane) and physical death. If that were true why does Yahweh say to his off screen audience "Whew, we are so lucky, because if they had also eaten from the tree of Life so as to live together, they would have become like us." If Adam and Even were not to know death, they were immortal, but then Yahweh would have had no worries about them eating from the "other tree."
It is not from what we need to be saved, but from whom. This is clearly an organized crime caper as the source of the danger and the salvation coem from the same organization.
Interesting. I never thought about evolution killing original sin.