All religions on the face of the earth believe it doesn't... except for Christianity which teaches that someone had to be humilated,crusified and killed so that God can forgive sins and send people to paradise.
What do you think?
2007-01-28 01:14:14 · 15 answers · asked by Kimo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think that it is nonsense.
God is not a psychopath.
The christian idea of judgment is what the rest of the world calls vengeance.
God is not that trivial that He would need or want this christian idea of vengeance/judgment.
This silly little small g god would not make a good pimple on the real Gods butt.
Love and blessings Don
2007-01-28 01:23:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No more than any good parent.
As the Penultimate Father, God has historically shown use of both justice and mercy just as I do when I discipline my children for doing something wrong... but have shown mercy on them when they are remorseful or if they were truly innocent and just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Through Jesus, God taught the universe humility. Through the pain suffered by Christ I believe He was trying to teach us mercy and respect for each other. God had made His own rules and therefore had to abide by them and knowing there was no way we could be perfect, He had to come up with another plan.
Again, as a parent, I get this. If I make a rule that's impossible for anyone to follow, I've had to change the rule or make other accommodations. God might be perfect, but He was apparently new at parenting when He decided to create man... so admitted He'd made an error in judgment. Think about it.... His fury with the flood... but then apologizing for having to wipe out the whole planet like that... so still capable of not knowing what human response would be.
He created us... but gave us free will... so yes, He's always known that we might make monstrous mistakes for which He would have to make adjustments.
2007-01-28 09:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by thegirlwholovedbrains 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Questions like this seem difficult, unless you know two things:
1. God's love for us which is unquenchable
2. The underlying things that evil is/was doing with people that were destroying people's lives and habitat, endangering the earth and placing people in deadly peril.
For God Mercy and Justice flow out of one heart that is loving.
He won't tolerate the evil that causes men to fall into bitter divides and bondage, making slaves of some, objects of torture of others,
selling and trading in flesh (mammon) or destruction of the innocent. This is one of the terrible sources of both anger and pain which drives his justice further and his mercy deeper.
Jesus fought the powers of evil, and it may seem that He lost, but instead He won the victory. They could not corrupt God's son, and as such He was able to open a pathway to heaven and to aid men through his Church to escape the terrible bondage and cruelty of satan. How confused people become when they do not see the underlying cause and the overall purpose.
Today the Father works patiently to finish the work in the world that will cure these conditions for all time. As the Bible says: If today you hear his voice, harden not your heart. Listen to Him, because nobody could love you like that Father who made you in your mother's womb and gifted you with an eternal soul. His mercy is enduring, His kindness everlasting.
2007-01-28 09:35:10 · answer #3 · answered by QueryJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You state that "Christianity teaches that someone hadto be humilated, crucified and killed so that God can forgive sins and send people to paradise." I would like to correct you on this. It is not Christianity that states this, it is God Himself that stated this. He Himself made this decision along with His Son, Jesus Christ. God, from the beginning, taught people about their creator and when they didn't listen to His laws, He destroyed them and when they did obey His laws He blessed them. At one point mankind was so corrupt that God regretted that He created us so we flooded the earth and kept the only faithful family to start over (Noah's). Again centuries went on with God's covenants and Him anointing kings and His people obeying and disobeying. God blessed and destroyed. Then once again God was at the 'breaking point' with mankind and decided to give us one last chance. He sent His Son to give us eternal salvation. The ultimate sacrifice. Jesus went willingly. This was God's decision and God's plan. Not mankind's. God taught man throughout the OT about the prefiguration of a Savior. And in the NT Book of Revelation He teaches us of the Final Days and Final Judgment. God has from the very beginning told mankind about His plan of salvation.
God can never, has never, and will never contradict Himself. That would be impossible. Please tell me from the Bible where God's plan of salvation His words contradicted themselves? The OT prophesies the NT and the NT fulfilled the OT.
All religions of the world believe that God's justice doesn't contradict His Mercy and neither does Christianity. Obviously you have no idea what the Holy Bible teaches.
2007-01-28 09:32:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God's Mercy is demonstrated by the fact he paid the penalty of death for us. Most religions you refer to worship an Unrighteous God. God is both righteous and merciful. He does not lie and call that which is sin holy. If your God is in agreement with sin he is not righteous and is not God. Consider a new white dress and the dress has a small ink stain...This dress to my God is ruined to many people their God can call this dress OK or by works such as adding a ribbon this dress can be called okay....Jesus makes this dress new...It is not repaired an it is not called clean while it is still stained but through the atonement this dress is made new. God can do anything and we of all religions agree but Christians understand that God remains righteous in all that he does....God's mercy does not include being in agreement with sin or calling that which is unholy holy but making new that which is bad. If you did e-mail me I never received it feel free to message me.
2007-01-28 16:46:29 · answer #5 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a very clear sense it does. Mercy is the gift of Love which holds out life and hope for beings who without His help are without hope. His justice must in the end be meted out (It is referred to as His "Strange act" so that the blot of Sin (and sinners) in the end get cleaned up so He can start over and make all things new, and very good. There is definitely a tension at the moment, but in the end it will be harmonious.
2007-01-28 09:24:12 · answer #6 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How convenient, that Christians believe that they are being judged BUT because we killed off this Jesus dude, as long as we believe that he was who he said he was, it's a free ticket to heaven.
If god wanted to forgive everyone, why not just do it?
Perhaps Jesus was sent down as a test, to see if we could allow some form of tolerance for the insane, and we failed miserably by stringing him up on a cross. Sorry, nailing. God's probably really pissed at us now.
-- Why would a god with any mercy at all put people in hell for eternity? Punishment approaches infinity as mercy approaches zero.
2007-01-28 09:26:27 · answer #7 · answered by DoctorScurvy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Something like that.
God's justice demands that a penalty be paid for sin. His mercy allows us to be free of the penalty, but the penalty had to be laid upon His Son because justice demanded that the penalty be paid. It goes in a circle, God's justice and mercy complementing not contradicting) each other.
2007-01-28 09:19:53 · answer #8 · answered by BekaJoy 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well based on your own definition, it certainly seems as though even Christianity has a bit of a dilemma, now doesn't it. The all-knowing, all-powerful, but merciful God sent his son (who also happens to be Him, a third indivisible part thereof) to die as an innocent man, a horrible death so that we can be forgiven of sins.
Yes, god's mercy and god's justice are contradictory.
2007-01-28 09:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by Answer Flop 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO it does NOT. Example:
Back in the days of old, when two kingdoms battled, the *loser* had to do service to the *winner* to live. We have to do service to GOD as God defeated Satan by His Son, Jesus Christ on Calvary. However the *service* we do for God is NOT HARD or DEMANDING. God has given us a choice to accept life through Christ, or destruction by rejecting Christ. God has given us life, and all we have to do is accept it by Christ. I hope you understand what I am *saying* Gods ways ARE NOT hard. If you love someone do you not want to please that someone wheather it be God or a person? Gods burden is easy, and His yolk is light as He has done all the hard parts for us.
2007-01-28 09:25:12 · answer #10 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋