Posts Tagged ‘Justice’
Blog - Friday, July 10, 2009 17:53 - 0 Comments
Compelled to reply
After my last blog post to Marcus, he has responded:
For the past few days I have been…um…dialoguing with a person on twitter about the nature of God, evidence for his existence, and human free will. He felt compelled to write a full blog post in response to the discussion. I feel honored. He obviously put a lot of thought into it. I’ve decided to respond in kind. In addition this essay is a lot more respectful and articulate that some his tweets. My words will be in red and his will be in black.
I am not sure I put that much effort into it – it was essentially a stream of consciousness, which I did not even re-read once complete. Nevertheless, I appreciate the full blog post in response and will respond to your comments in turn.
I think for the purposes of our discussion we will continue to leave the Trinity out of the discussion and save it for some other time. This guy is the one who misunderstands. The son willingly gave himself for us as the propitiation for our sins and no one deserves it.
Many bright minds have delved the depths contained in the mystery of the trinity, and none have really come up with a definition or rational explanation. The essence of most modern Christian theology is that God, Jesus, and something called the “Holy Ghost” form three parts of the same god – something like ice, water, and steam are different representations of water.
On the surface, this explanation of the trinity seems to solve the riddle, that is until you remember that one part of god cursed us for all time for the horrendous crime of disobeying him, while the other died to pay the price of this transgression (although he came back to life, so it’s unclear what kind of sacrifice it really was).
Let’s leave all that rubbish behind us because there is no solution to the conundrums it creates.