If God was truly omnipotent he could have simply forgiven us.?

Question

I find the idea that a man had to die for my sons revolting. What kind of deity, would execute one child in order to forgive it’s others? Modern society would call an individual like this sadistic, insane and cruel. Surely, you would not worship a child killer, why do you expect me to? Would you find a judge worthy of the title who would allow my child to be executed in lieu of my sins?

Answer 1

i agree makes 1 question the sanity of the catholics as well as all religions that believe this

Answer 2

Perhaps looking at an illustration could help you.

If your children were kidnapped and the kidnapper demanded $100,000 to free them, otherwise they would die, would you pay the ransom? Would you be upset if someone else paid it for you?

God's justice demanded that a perfect human life was the price that was needed to ransom mankind from sin and death and then he even furnished the ransom price. What is so revolting about that?

The fact that God is omnipotent does not mean that he will go against his laws of justice. No doubt there are things that you are able to do, and have the power to do (perhaps kill your neighbor) that you do not proceed with, due to your sense of justice.

Even a human judge would think that one life sacrificed to save billions was in the best interest of mankind.

Answer 3

I could be wrong, but I don't think the term omnipotent is actually in the Bible.
The way I see it, there are many things God can't do. He can't lie for example. If he did, he would no longer be the God of truth.
He also can't go against the principles and laws that he himself established.
The consequence of sin is death. God warned Adam and Eve that their disobedience would result in death. He cannot go back on his word.
The only way God can forgive us is, if we accept Jesus death as the sacrifice for our sins.
You do realize, that God did not kill Jesus himself right?
We killed him. True, God allowed it to happen but he wasn't the one who put the thorns on his head and nailed him to the cross! That was us. If anybody can be called sadistic here, it's mankind and not God.
Now about sacrificing one child for the sake of the others. What if you knew that by sacrificing that one child, you could save millions of your other children (assuming for a minute that you were able to have millions)? We are not talking one or two other children you know!
The last thing I want to tell you is, that in order to forgive anybody anything, that person has to ask for forgiveness or at least want it! Most people living today don't think they even need God's forgiveness! Would you forgive a person who has sinned against you if he was completely unrepentant?

Answer 4

i am a roman catholic. and i grew up believing that Jesus was crucified to save people from sins, that's until i went to college, where my theology prof said that, for starters, God ain't a bleeding sadist. Jesus died because the society during that time was cruel and unjust, not because God wanted him to save us from sins. my professor got me there. i mean, If you're a father, why would you let your son get hurt, or worst, die? furthermore, Jesus, being a normal human being, tried to escape death as well. and unfortunately, people have this image of Jesus as a magician, bringing the dead back to life, changing water into wine... and all those sort of stuff. the thing is, you don't read the bible literally, you actually interpret it. unfortunately...unfortunately, people don't do that. so i strongly suggest people who are interested to take a theology course to be enlightened.

btw, i attended a catholic university, that's where i learned all those stuff.

Answer 5

I agree. I think Christianity defies GODs law and will by propagating this ridiculous story, the least of which is the substitution of a man's life for humanity's sins, the dismissal of GOD's command that humanity follow GOD's law, and the disgusting proposition that a man be worshipped in GOD's stead in return for salvation instead of people taking responsibility for their own actions and understanding that only GOD can forgive.

Answer 6

Who knows. Do you seriously think we totally understand the godhead? We don't have an inkling as to what our beginnings are. We come up with theories and that's it.

First bad things that happen and right away we blame God or godhead. Yeah, it's him who took my child away! Good grief.

To blame it on a godhead? We don't have enough spritual smarts and knowledge to blame.

Answer 7

Again, you try to rationalize things you clearly have no grasp of, what makes you think you should be able to understand God's ways, scripture tells us His ways are not our ways, I would be worried if I could fully understand God, then He really wouldn't be so amazing, more man made.

Answer 8

Jesus knew what was to be before it was.

He made the ultimate sacrifice so that those who BELIEVE in him shall have everlasting life!

You can choose to believe God, the Bible and Jesus all fables and stories, but you'll be the one gnashing your teeth one day when you want to be recognized but won't be.

Answer 9

I don't understand why it is people want God to forgive them, but they don't want to do anything in lieu of it. They just want to get the gift from "kindly, old grandpa God" without having to do anything, without having to talk to him, to aviod him at all costs, but because YOU don't show any love OR respect for Him, He is supposed to give you everything you want. I just do not understand it................

Answer 10

it's hard to really understand the message,the message might be trying to say one thing,and we as people can easily get confuse by trying to think of what it really means in a lot of different way's because some people want to believe what they want to believe and will say anything,and some people just don't understand and some don't want to.

Answer 11

Even a superficial knowledge of Christianity would help before you ask some of these ignorant questions.