WHAT THE HELL is the point......?
1.UNDESERVED kindness
Ask yourself why you don't DESERVE kindness. If God says you don't DESERVE something and he gives it to you anyway...who is conflicted here?? Who is breaking their own moral code? Who is violating what justice is all about? In short, it makes no frickin' sense! It would be like pardoning a criminal just to be nice. "Okay Muggsie, you can go now. We know you murdered a cop, but; we're giving you a break because...umm...well, we're just very nice!"
2. ARMAGEDDON
God didn't kill Adam and Eve even though he promised he would. He let them breed, for heaven's sakes! God wanted to give the unborn a chance to DECIDE on important issues and he'd reserve judgment until later. That would be fair. God was just trying to be fair....right? No, you moron! Allowing defective children to be born is not fair! Allowing billions of kids to experience pain, suffering, ignorance, poverty and disease isn't fair either. On what basis would morally defective humans make such important choices anyway? The problem with this explanation is that Adam and Eve had UNCONCEIVED children before they had UNBORN children. It is only because Jehovah didn't step in and stop the conception of doomed children that we have the doctrine of ARMAGEDDON.
3.RANSOM SACRIFICE
Let's see if I have this straight....
Humans don't deserve to live because they are born sinful. Jesus was not sinful; he was perfect. So, the innocent guy, Jesus, has to suffer capitol punishment while the guilty people get off scott free, right?? This is justice?
Oh, it is a kind of tit-for-tat exchange, you say. Adam was perfect and caused sin in his kids so Jesus can offer to die FOR Adam and become our stepDAD instead. Huh? Or, umm, maybe...letting the innocent die as well as the sinful is just what Jehovah gets off on.
Look at it this way. God decided to consider humans unworthy of life. Then, he came up with a whacked out plan to decide to consider humans worthy of life. But, truthfully, it all comes down to God changing his mind this way and that. If it weren't for the way Jehovah was thinking we wouldn't need death or a ransom in the first place.
Apparently, God's sense of morality is twisted like a corkscrew.
OR.....
ALL THE ABOVE are nonsensical because somebody made it all up in the first place!
Yeah, that's what I just said. Maybe God isn't an idiot after all! Wouldn't that be weird?
What if every single shred of theology is just hair-brained imagination passed off as an "explanation" of why the world is the way it is.
What if humanity is and always has been on its own to make its own way? What if things are just in our own hands and we have to shape up to bale out? Wouldn't that be scary and refreshing and just?
That's kind of what I figure.
God, if you're out there....maybe you are so vastly superior in every way it is impossible for our brain to wrap around what you are and why you created the spark of life. Maybe your sense of Justice is really Justice after all. You let things take their course and what happens is a case of "it is what it is".
Otherwise...
WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT...???