WOTM: God is Just?
I don't think any of you will have difficulty answering THIS question either. It's kind of a slam dunk, isn't it? And yet, this is the Being so many people on this planet worship and look to for guidance in terms of how to behave. It's a truly horrifying thought. Which is why we're all here, right? Someone has to speak out.
Thanks so much for allowing me to raise my voice (and yours) with these videos. I really couldn't do it without you!!! B
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You mentioned the asymmetry between Adam's sin vs. Jesus's salvation. Why are we assigned the first and not the second? Paul actually says we get them both (Rom. 5:18-19): "18 Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous."
And since "death came through a man . . ." is just wrong. This is a common misunderstanding of the tale of Adam and Eve. People assume that since Adam and Eve rebelled against Yahweh's advice, that they lost their immortality and became mortal. But if you read the story, A&E end up getting kicked out of the Garden because they couldn't be trusted to not also eat from the Tree of Life, which according to Yahweh, would make them "like us" which I assume is immortal like Yahweh and his audience of other gods. Because of this A&E could not have been immortal already. But the wages of sin is death; that's in the Bible! they say. But, no, it is not.
God is just... a fungus that gets in our brain and makes us lie down in pastures of the right plant that the fungus can then grow in until the next naive mushroom hunter picks it up...
Just? He's sick. Imagine what kind of being would insist that someone suffer a horrible death for others' "sins." I mean, c'mon, if I've made some mistake in life that requires "payment," I should pay it myself —not selfishly let my "brother" pay for it! I have long thought that, if one desires to be truly "Christ-like," the very first step is to outright reject Christ's sacrifice. Would that "just" deity then send me to hell? So be it.