In your faith, Jesus died for the sins of humanity. But you also say Jesus is God. If God wanted to forgive humanity, couldn't he just forgive humanity instead of putting on a suit and getting nailed to a wooden T? I mean, really! He's God! Why does God need to kill himself to forgive us? Can't he just forgive us? Was this a publicity stunt? Was he making a point?
Another thing: In creation "theory" *scoff*, why did God create the world in six days? Wouldn't it be more logical to just create it instantly?
Why did he need to rest on the seventh? He's God, God doesn't rest.
Why did he even MAKE the tree of knowledge? What was the point? I mean, he's God, he should be able to tell that the two nudies down there would try and eat off of it out of curiosity!
And what about the flood? If God is God, why didn't he just cleanse the earth himself? Why does he need lots of water and a wooden boat?
It seems to me as if God could have thought things through a little better.
2007-01-02 12:40:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and what about the people who lived before christ? why couldnt they benefit from this salvation?
2007-01-02 12:43:35 · answer #1 · answered by whoknows 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In "101 Myths of the Bible", Gary Greenberg (President of the Biblical Archaelogy Society of New York) makes the case that the Genesis creation stories were reworkings from the Egyptian creation stories, which the Jews learned while in Egypt. These stories were reworking in a monotheistically acceptable way. These stories then became even more dilluted when the Jews mixed some of the Babylonian stories in during the Babylonian captivity.
2007-01-02 12:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by Nowhere Man 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have asked the question about forgiving of several clergy of different
faiths. Not one has given me a satisfactory answer, so I can't answer you either. They never liked it when I concluded that if he needed Jesus to be a Savior, that made for a rather weak omnipotency.
2007-01-02 12:49:13 · answer #3 · answered by Dawn G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And what about creating, for example, Richard Simmons?
2007-01-02 12:41:33 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs. Large Richard 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The one guarding his mouth is keeping his soul. The one opening wide his lips -he will have ruin. God told me to stay away from in front of the stupid man, for you will certainly not take note of the lips of knowledge.......You therefore will never understand knowledge because you have aspired to foolishness.....KECK
2007-01-02 12:55:25 · answer #5 · answered by Tneciter 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
haha I think that whole story was just a metaphor, but I'm not sure what about XD it's pretty funny, I agree
2007-01-02 12:43:11 · answer #6 · answered by High On Life 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know what I find silly. You ridicule God and He loves you anyway. Now that's funny.
2007-01-02 12:49:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the platipuss is one.
small pox is another: all those big huge red postules all over your body, even your eyeballs! LOL
God is a riot.
2007-01-02 12:42:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Simple: the wages of sin is death. He died in our place. The end.
2007-01-02 12:42:12 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
lol ~ Richard Simmons.
I can't answer, I'm not G-d.
2007-01-02 12:43:12 · answer #10 · answered by ♥michele♥ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋