You misunderstand what I am saying. I know the Sadducees were the ones who arranged his death, but they riled up the Jewish people, who rejected Jesus and chose Barabbas to be freed and Jesus to be crucified.
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Actually, the Sadducees were the ones primarily responsible for killing Jesus. The vast majority of Jews never had any contact at all with Jesus during his lifetime.
(This thread is for those who believe in basic scientific principles)
If you believe science provides an accurate geological/biological picture of our history, you would agree that our species homo sapiens has been around for a roundabout of 200,000 years, give or take (a few thousand years).
Now Jesus carried out his mission (that saved our kind) about 2,000 years ago.
What purpose would God have waiting ~200,000 years (and 1 genocide) to say "Alright, it's time to send my Son as a blood-sacrifice to save you."?
Unless someone can explain the concise reasoning, I fail to see why this doesn't make God imperfect and therefore not real. A perfect entity has absolutely no need or want for this petty humanistic behavior.
I don't think God "waited", that implies temporality in God's experience and existence when I believe He is atemporal.
God's activity isn't about waiting and acting, but simply acting. Think of the Incarnation as dipping a finger in water with ripples moving out in all directions.
If you were looking to find someone who is looking for you, would you look in a place where no one cares? or would you go to a place were people are searching?
1) Israel is G-d's chosen people, not China
2) The stated purpose for waiting is not simply language and roads, but both being well-established over an area large enough and diverse enough that the historical elements of the Gospel couldn't be erased, and therefore worthless.
(Which is not to say that G-d can't have other reasons as well; He might)
God created this universe to experience it (through our love).
So if you want to think of it in terms of this analogy, my question would be why would God stick his finger into the water as to create such large distances between ripples? But it's still asking the same question, why did he wait?
You mentioned that the reason for God's choice in location was due to literacy and technology.
Taking the aspect of time out of this argument because anyway you look at it it has been 20xx Years since Christ or whatever even if Christ was Born in 32 AD.
Approx 5000 BC = The first Egyptians Appear- so 2011+5000 = Earth is at least over 7000 years old. (My Creationist Guess is about 10,000 yrs.)
The questions can be mathematically hard to explain with time and space with infinite GOD and even 200,000 years or even 1 billion years to an infinite concept is a small amount of time.
Why is there Human and why are we here, there is nor reason?
Where did it start, how did it start?
Is there at least a "God of Chance?" in the world of Atheism..
Wouldn't it be best if everyone were Gods's chosen people?
Asia/China had all of these elements. Their religions were older than Judaism/Christianity and they're still in-tact today. Clearly it was easy to establish religion in China.
My point here is that it's dangerous to support your own thoughts with the ideology that "He has his reasons"...i.e. support your own thoughts with unknowns.
Unless someone can explain the concise reasoning, I fail to see why this doesn't make God imperfect and therefore not real. A perfect entity has absolutely no need or want for this petty humanistic behavior.
God created this universe to experience it (through our love). This universe exists within time. Whether or not God is limited by time, he still lives in ours.
Right, and the ripples move outwards in a wave pattern that has a velocity (which means distance and time). So if you want to think of it in terms of this analogy, my question would be why would God stick his finger into the water as to create such large distances between ripples? But it's still asking the same question, why did he wait?
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