Oh dear, where do I begin :-)
Submitted by Forgiven on August 15 2000 18:49:38
In reply to Re: So, for you, why did Jesus die on the cross? n/t submitted by Dannyboy on August 14 2000 20:10:19
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The semantic content of the above is that an incompetent or less than all powerful God, having messed up the creation of the world, thought that he really ought to give the humans he had put on it a hint that despite it all he really did love them. Not my God, guv! The need for suffering to develop is a more complex one - having a substantial element of truth, I can't pastiche it so effectively. The Biblical image of a perfect world that was inherently thrown off balance and reduced to futility as a result of the choice of the first human being to pick sin and rebel against God. The world is set up for all actions, good and bad to have consequences IN THIS WORLD - so the good things that we do have a positive impact, and the bad a negative one. Part of these negative consequences are such things as disease, earthquakes etc and especially death, as well as the evil that people do. The only way that the cycle of these things can be broken - the deep magic as it is described in 'The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe' - is for a wholly innocent person to take the suffering that is due to the world on himself to release the rest of the world from those consequences. Specifically this transaction was achieved on the cross of calvary. As well as being biblical, such an interpretation offers a consistent image of a truly omnipotent God who constructs a self validating universe that really means something. Hope that makes sense! |
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