No God is love. The very essence of what love is comes from God. And no, not every human has love. And what you're describing is sadistic...oh wait you're probably gonna say "And what God is going to do to the sinner isn't sadistic?!"
Every human being (aside from psychopaths, perhaps) have love.
Well, if you want to say God is doing these things we read about, then that is pretty cruel and harsh.
Man I feel for you brother. I don't think you understand the complete gravity of the penalty of sin. Yes Christ knew that He would have to die for us, and in that all questions should stop. Tell me, would you willingly create something if you knew that the only way you could keep that particular thing was if you died the most heinous death to keep it?
Is God bound by his own (created) laws? Yes or no?
If no, then the point is moot. If yes, then how is he the Almighty God? I'm honestly asking.
I would die for my wife. Not everyone else. I am not as saintly as I could be. I'm not perfect in and of myself, nor did I claim to be.
Mind you, you can create a host of other things you won't have to die for, but only that one.
Ok.
That's what Christ did for us. And the penalty wasn't arbitrary. It was black and white. Break the law and you die, now bear in mind, no one had to break the law for one, and for two, the guilty doesn't get the opprotunity to determine the penalty they should pay.
Correct. But God made the rules and the penalties. He could have chosen something else, but didn't.
If you steal someones car and run a police man over while trying to escape, you don't get to tell the judge "I think I should just have to pet a cat and eat an orange and say I'm sorry one hundred times". It doesn't work that way.
Man's laws are not God's laws. In fact, the law you advocate is lawlessness, in one sense. Hear me out...
You do that, then go before the judge. He says, "You must be put to death for killing the officer." Uh-oh, you think! But then, another completely innocent man walks in and says, "I'll go in his place." The judge looks at him funny and says, "You can't. That is unjust. We cannot put an innocent man to death for the crime of the guilty."
I am a christian, but I ask you this: How is THAT in any way just? It's not.
And yes, God is bound by His own law. If He wasn't what kind of God would He be?
Wow. A LOT of christians here would disagree with you. I'm not saying *I* do, but wow... you have just alienated the vast majority of christians who say God can do whatever he wants. Man would say this is HERESY.
Think about it like this, God didn't have to create us, He could have moved on and created something else, or just stopped creation altogether, but He didn't. It may be cause for confusion, but on the grander scale of things, God had more of a reason to question creating us then we do.
I agree. Nevertheless, did you ask to be born? I know I didn't. When you bring something into this world, you have a RESPONSIBLITY to care for that thing and look after it. Even human parents know this. Should the PERFECT God be held to a lesser standard???
The Almighty Creator, Soverign of the universe, decided He'd rather die for us then live without us. That should be enough to drive everyone to their knees crying out Holy!
