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Assuming the Christian god were real, and his biblical description is accurate; how is it that an omnipotent deity couldn't forgive the sins of humanity without a requirement for a blood sacrifice?

JimG 8 July 23
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Those are some extreme assumptions, but suffice to say, an omnipotent entity could pretty much do anything it wishes, right? As I see it, the Christian faith is founded on three moral outrages which pretty much scandalize the entire enterprise:

  1. That guilt can be inherited, or passed down to later generations. The concept of original sin rests on the hideous notion that we all bear the stain of Adam's choice to eat an apple! Seriously? By what right does a church make such an immoral assertion and insist that we are born with this impurity?
  2. That a substitute may be inserted to serve in the place of the guilty. The Christian belief rests on the story of an innocent person being sentenced to death in order to 'atone' for the ‘sins’ of all. What would we say today if, at the public execution of a convicted murderer, the governor were to accept the offer of substitution by an innocent citizen with a death wish? “Well,” says the governor, “a murder was committed and somebody has to pay, so it might as well be you.” And yet such absurdity is foundational to the Christian system.
  3. That a deity or supernatural being would debauch a teenage maiden in order to produce a half-man, half-god ‘savior of mankind.’ Of all the absurdities found in religion, this story is by far the most inane. Gods mating with humans? How original! And what, after all, are the genetic constituents here? What would a paternity test have revealed? What, after all, is in a god’s DNA?

And so it is upon these three absurd, immoral and indefensible principles that the Christian faith was founded. And the faithful wonder why so many have chosen to walk away.

That's an interesting and accurate view. Well stated.

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