From a very young age I was taught the following:
Jesus Christ is the son of God and he died for my sins. He was crucified and nailed to the cross. He payed the ultimate sacrifice for our sins, and his death ensures that we can all be reborn to eternal life.
Jesus Christ is the son of God and he died for my sins. He was crucified and nailed to the cross. He payed the ultimate sacrifice for our sins, and his death ensures that we can all be reborn to eternal life.
At first this sounded all fine and dandy to me. I thought, really? Even though I’m a horrible retched sinner, Jesus payed the price for me and all i have to do is except his sacrifice and I get to live forever and ever? Well sure sign me up!
But of course as I got a bit older I began to really think about what this meant.
Is it ethical for god to base a religion on a scapegoat method? If i do something wrong, if i sin, I can take that sin and throw that responsibility onto an innocent person. And by what means? Human sacrifice of course. Yes this sounds completely sane and moral. I’ve done something wrong so you get to die for it now. Sounds like something only a perfect god could muster up doesn’t it?
But of course as I got a bit older I began to really think about what this meant.
Is it ethical for god to base a religion on a scapegoat method? If i do something wrong, if i sin, I can take that sin and throw that responsibility onto an innocent person. And by what means? Human sacrifice of course. Yes this sounds completely sane and moral. I’ve done something wrong so you get to die for it now. Sounds like something only a perfect god could muster up doesn’t it?
No. This idea is evil, disgusting, and barbaric. You may argue that God did this out of love.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son..” (john 3:16)
But if he is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God, and he is indeed perfect and good and just in every way, then why would he stoop to such a low? No matter which way you cut it, human sacrifice is evil. Did it take evil to save the world then? Why could god not find a way to save the world using the forces of light, not dark? I see a HUGE contradiction here.
And then so what if God did give his only begotten son! He’s GOD. He can have as many sons as he wants! Just because he chose to only have the one it makes it a sacrifice? Thats ridiculous. And aren’t we all taught that God is our personal heavenly father?
But if he is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent God, and he is indeed perfect and good and just in every way, then why would he stoop to such a low? No matter which way you cut it, human sacrifice is evil. Did it take evil to save the world then? Why could god not find a way to save the world using the forces of light, not dark? I see a HUGE contradiction here.
And then so what if God did give his only begotten son! He’s GOD. He can have as many sons as he wants! Just because he chose to only have the one it makes it a sacrifice? Thats ridiculous. And aren’t we all taught that God is our personal heavenly father?
In the Old Testament In Deuteronomy 18:10, the bible says: “There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering…”
The bible clearly talks about human sacrifice as evil, this is only one example of many. Yet we are to believe that god himself took part in it?
This is a major contradiction in christianity. If you are a normal, moral bound person, then you agree that human sacrifice is evil. Yet the sacrifice of Jesus is somehow divine?
And then you’ve got to ask yourself, if Gods intentions were to save all of mankind through sending his son, the human sacrifice to die, why wouldn’t he make it more effective? Why do so in such a ridiculous, unsuccessful manor?
My favorite quote from the late Christopher Hitchens explains it best:
The bible clearly talks about human sacrifice as evil, this is only one example of many. Yet we are to believe that god himself took part in it?
This is a major contradiction in christianity. If you are a normal, moral bound person, then you agree that human sacrifice is evil. Yet the sacrifice of Jesus is somehow divine?
And then you’ve got to ask yourself, if Gods intentions were to save all of mankind through sending his son, the human sacrifice to die, why wouldn’t he make it more effective? Why do so in such a ridiculous, unsuccessful manor?
My favorite quote from the late Christopher Hitchens explains it best:
” Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I’ll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth.
Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2,000 years ago, thinks “That’s enough of that. It’s time to intervene,” and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East.
Don’t let’s appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let’s go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can’t be believed by a thinking person.”
If God, being perfect as he is, wanted to forgive us for our sins, I’m positive that he could of come up with a trillion better ideas. Im merely an average human and i can think of a hundred better ways off the top of my head! Why not just forgive people then? After all he did create you to be the way you are, so why condemn you for it? Why not simply write words of fire in the sky saying “hey morons, stop being all evil and whatnot and repent and I’ll let you come to heaven.”
Either this God, along with all of the others, is man-made, or he is simply uncaring, unintelligent, evil, and malevolent.
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