What Sacrifice?‏

Are you waiting for the resurrection? Waiting for God to wield his almighty power once again? My bigger problem with the hypothetical appearance of God is the feeling that if he did show up so what, I find the God of the bible a reprehensible character.

It is up to us as humans to live by an acceptable moral standard. Yet the problem arises when one believes, for example, that the God of the bible has any relevance when it comes down to a moral standard to live by.

The god of the bible is inferior when talking of what is real in the way of moral actions and ideals. For example I feel that any that advocate slavery is morally inferior. Any that advocate genocide, slaughter, infanticide, human and animal sacrifice is morally inferior. Someone who offers infinite punishment and rewards for finite crimes and deeds is morally inferior. Someone who creates a system knowing that the people are not going to live up to its standards, yet spends thousands of years punishing them for his own failures basically trying to fix his own mistakes, is morally inferior. Adam and Eve, banished from the garden, the great flood, the Tower of Babel, etc. There's failure after failure after failure until he comes up with the only loophole the "creator" of the universe can come up with. Instead of just forgiving everybody, or changing the rules, being all powerful this should be very easy, he comes up with the idea of a sacrifice.

But is it really a sacrifice? Depending on your belief, you may believe that Jesus is God. In this sacrifice he comes to earth in human form and sacrifices it to alleviate all of the peoples sins. Of course death is only temporary and Jesus rises and ascends back up to heaven. Big deal. First off to think the blood of another can relieve you of sin would be a laughable thought if it wasn't so repulsive. This is really no more than just a version of the tradition from primitive man, where they believed they could pile all the sins of the tribe on a goat and then cast it out into the desert to die, thus taking all the sins with it. This is where the term scapegoat originates. Secondly if you are gullible and naive enough to believe that the killing of one thing restores the goodness of another, the crucifixion of Jesus was not all that amazing as he was after all supernatural and his death was only that of a body that meant nothing. There was no sacrifice because nothing was really lost. God knew that Jesus was not gone forever, so to call that the ultimate and loving sacrifice is a crock.

You can cherry pick things from the bible to prove goodness and love exist in the bible as well. But that just means it is an imperfect book, about an imperfect god, that has good days and bad days, surprisingly to some, just like man. Its not a coincidence. Here's a moral test, you against god. If god where to come to you and order you to kill a young child. An innocent child not able to hurt a soul or even commit sin. If you knew it was really god would you do it? Don't give me any line about how he wouldn't do such a thing either, he has in the past and this is based on what he has already proven capable of. Another example, if your children were to do something unspeakable like not love you, would you think it acceptable to lock them in the basement and torture them for eternity. Would that be an example of morality? What if you had something you loved so much and there was something harming them and you had the power to destroy it but chose not to. Would you consider that moral behavior? That would be Satan vs. gods children, yet god sits by and watches instead of allowing them to live in his grace only. Dictatorships are never moral positions, thus the god of the bible is either immoral or incompetent. Either way there's nothing to worry about, its only a badly written fairytale. Be kind and loving to your children, teach them respect, how to give and receive it, and don't be afraid to think for yourself about what is right and wrong. That is the only chance for real peace.

So if some god came to earth claiming to be the God of the bible, I could only hope he was lying, I would hate to think of an all powerful being with the mindset of first century man ruling the world.

 

Written by TG