It's like releasing a virus that infects countless people, only to later saunter onto the scene with the alleged cure. "I made you sick, but I can also make you well. This is what you must do..."
I wasn't saying it to suggest God ought to be sentenced. I was making the point that God allowed or caused humanity to fall into sickness. God then continued to watch as hell became the default place for everyone who has ever been born and then decided that the only way people can avoid this fate would be to believe a certain way.
He did make them sick. He created the standards he expected human beings to satisfy, and he created human beings knowing that they would fail to satisfy those standards. I suspect you will try to pin this all on Adam and Eve, but the blame lays with their designer. He bears ultimate responsibility for his creation.If God had "made" Men sick, you might have a point there. But you don't. Is this a good example of having "a little familiarity?"
The more I studied, the more I found it to be an eloquent metaphor, or allegory. "The Word" is the eternal law of good entailing good, and vice entailing suffering etc. Man may believe in the good, but flawed humanity can only really access it through faith, for he is only a contingently good player in the moral game. As Abelard argues IIRC, man may be judged by what he deeply believes in - but he must act according to his weaknesses. So Christ represents the crucified ideal, crucified because our weaknesses are real even if our hearts, through faith, can be 'bound up with his eternal blessedness' as an ideal to beleive in.
