What does the story of the death of Christ tell us about God (as God appears in the Christian version). Mostly, it tells us that God is a mean ************ who'll torture his kid to death to prove a point. And yes, I can hear you saying "But the resurrection, the resurrection proves that God is really, really nice after all."
2006-09-10 04:48:41 · 20 answers · asked by Mr. Mojo Risin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Except that Jesus continues to suffer even after his resurrection. After all, he was the Living Word, according to the Gospel of John, through whom all physical reality was made and in whom it subsists. Creation however longs for its redemption from corruption, it suffers the corruption that overtook the world when Adam fell and it suffers continually the redemptive agony of Christ (because Christ's redemption of the physical world has not yet manifested and so is ongoing).
As many a zealous Christian will tell you, every sin recrucifies Christ and every partcipatory act of innocent suffering (such as an animal under a vivesectionist's knife, or the random victim of violence, every child that starves to death, is tortured to death), is balm to his wounds and a step toward the coming Kingdom of God on earth.
2006-09-10 04:49:21 · update #1
Sure God's a nice guy. He made his kid the foundation of the universe, the substance of the universe - and then infected him with cancer. Then he made the boy a physical being and tortured him to death. And then resurrected him in a perfect imperishable body (a body made perfect for the reception of pain), a body that is still the substance of the universe, still cancerous, still suffering and constantly, endlessly crucified. Sure God's a nice guy. Sure.
2006-09-10 04:50:16 · update #2
My God is just like all other Gods - wholly a product of the imagination.
2006-09-10 04:52:33 · answer #1 · answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For starter my God does not ask people to commit Genocide. Read the Old Testament sometime and then at points you'll really see a despot God on the most extreme insecure, over controlling and schizophrenic of ego trips. Thank God this is but man's conception, or use of such conceptions for personal and or tribal gain.
I admit, there are many dysfunctions revolving around the culture of the People of the Book. However this does not mean there are not useful, true, and good things you can take from its traditions and texts. Take what is good and leave the rest.
Human history is full of violent, crazy, messed up things. You need to see between such things to also see the other side of humanity.
2006-09-10 11:58:44 · answer #2 · answered by Love of Truth 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a blue cowherd boy who wears peacock feather on His head and plays His flute in the bushes on the bank of river Yamuna during monsoon season. His name is Krishna, the All-attractive One, and He is the most beautiful personality in all the creation. There is no one like Him. He has an eternal body which is full of knowledge and full or bliss. He has innumerable names, forms, associates, pastimes and paraphernalia. He possesses unlimited wealth, fame, power, beauty, knowledge and renounciation. He is the source of all material and spiritual worlds. Everything beautiful and great is but a spark of His opulence. Even if you talk of Him 24 hours a day, you will not able to describe even an insignificant portion of His glories.
It is said in Sri Brahma-samhita (5.1):
isvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-Änanda-vigrahah
anÄdir Ädir govindah
sarva-kÄrana-kÄranam
"Krishna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes."
2006-09-10 12:01:43 · answer #3 · answered by H. B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dear Mr. Mojo Risin,
It's good of you to be thinking about God on this day, Sunday, seeing as you're of the Christian faith.
Accept that Jesus found his own path with his father.
Try to move on from your own past with your father.
Look for good.
It is waiting for you.
2006-09-10 11:57:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yeah, except your missing one thing. Jesus and God are ONE. God didn't "mercilessly torture" His son and feel no pain. Jesus is part of God. He felt every bit of it. Jesus isn't a separate being.
2006-09-10 11:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Surah 112. Al-Ikhlas
1. Say: He is Allah, the One!
2. Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
3. He begetteth not nor was begotten.
4. And there is none comparable unto Him.
2006-09-10 11:54:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I, your God and savior, look quite handsome. Just ask some of the female saints...
Love and kisses
Jesus Christ, the handsome guy
2006-09-10 12:02:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is the creator of the whole world
he has no kids just prophets
2006-09-10 11:55:20 · answer #8 · answered by human 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my god is a number, when you divide 1 by this number you reach infinity on the positive side.
2006-09-10 11:51:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You need to stop self pleasuring it give you delusions and makes you swear a lot.
2006-09-10 11:51:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋