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The OG conservative undiagnosed-something parent.

What difference would that make?

(OT: nice nostalgic username btw. Reminds me I have to take my back pain medication.)

It's based on the old idea of offering sacrifices to atone for sins. Do bad thing, sacrifice a dove or whatever to God to make up for it.

The idea is that God decided to do away with the sacrifice system using said system, by sending and then accepting a sacrifice great and pure enough to wipe the slate clean forevermore - his own self/son.

I've heard that it hits people from cultures where they do still sacrifice for every sin particularly hard - we might not have the frame of reference to really get this fully anymore.

Well I am an atheist myself, but the key is that in the old testament god gave every human the blame for the original sin.

And the special thing with Jesus dying and taking all sins with him is, that now god won't hate every human just because Adam and Eve stole some fruits.

This some weird story but yeah. Basically after Jesus, god wasn't that angry anymore.

This has been a source of debate since the very earliest days of Christianity, but essentially the main idea isn't that suffering in and of itself is what did it, it is that Jesus was a literal ritual sacrifice for the sins of humanity. In ancient Judaism, there was a lot of focus on animal sacrifices, and the Book of Leviticus lays out a very complex and rigid set of sacrifices that must be performed as atonements for each type of ritual impurity or sin, with the degree of sacrifice required roughly corresponding to the seriousness of the offense. It ranged from spiced cakes donated to the Temple for minor offenses to burning an entire bull without eating any of the meat for especially serious ones. Christians believe that by living a perfect human life and by being God incarnate, Jesus proved to be a good enough sacrifice to permanently atone for all the sins of humanity.

Of course, this begs the question of why God can't decide he just doesn't want to do all these sacrifices to begin with, and that goes back to Greek philosophers like Plato who tried to work out what properties a monotheistic God would have. One of the properties that got worked out was that if God is the greatest possible being, then He cannot change- after all, if He could, then he would have either not been the greatest possible being before, or he would be becoming something other than the greatest possible being. Therefore, if you believe that God created a set laws that demand sacrifice, then they must be in effect forever.

I would then wonder the validity of the assumption that the ancient Jewish laws were actually God's divine laws in the first place under this set of assumptions, but that is assumed to be true by both Christians and Jews as a matter of faith.

Yeah it would have been way easier for the apparently all good, all knowing, all powerful god to just, you know, forgive us, but that wouldn't have made for a good book

Trinity is messed up in so many wonderful ways tbh

Well... he saved us by making us kill him so he can forgive us for not listening to his orders.

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Everyone be like "god is merciful and love us all" and then the god smile, bend down, and give sweetheart little Timmy bone cancer.