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If we are discussing what is "unfair," isn't it unfair that Jesus, who was completely sinless and blameless, had to come to suffer for my sins? I am the one that chose to sin but he paid the price for my sins. Knowing that God, out of His great love for me, sent His only son to die for me? That is unfair to God! I should be paying the price for my own sins, but instead I am offered the greatest gift anyone could give to me, eternal life because of His love and the thing is that it is offered to everyone! God is no respecter of persons. We are all welcome to His gift if we just accept it.
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If God did not want to suffer for sins, he should not have deemed them such.
We can get frustrated at thy way God has chosen to do things, or we can accept that He has chosen to do things they way He has and respond with gratitude for even caring about us. Who are we to say how God, the creator of the universe, should or should not have done something? It really is all about humility. It is said that one of the greatest sins is actually pride. This is because our own pride is what keeps us from even humbly coming to God and accepting Him at all.
So why is it unfair that god (Jesus) suffered for the thing he himself created? If I give you a gun, and you accidentally shoot and wound yourself, and then in turn I take my own gun and shoot myself in the foot, is it unfair that I ended up getting shot because you got shot? And does that fix your wound? That whole "dying for our sins" thing makes no sense whatsoever. Just like blaming all the actions of murderers and rapists on a goat, taking the goat out of town, and killing it (a completely idiotic ancient practice that inspired the story of Jesus).
Actually, Jesus didn't suffer and die only for people. Mankind were originally given the authority for this universe. The universe is one; anything done on earth affects the whole thing. Jesus died to hold the whole universe in place. He could do it because He is God, the Son of God.
The underlying law that the whole universe is based on is, love God above all things. The second is love your neighbor as yourself. When God came as man in the form of Jesus, the only way to uphold the two great laws was to die. Why? Because mankind would have died from their breaking of the fundamental laws that hold the whole universe together. Why did Jesus rise in the resurrection? Because His love for God wouldn't allow the creation to be destroyed.
The most amazing miracle is that Jesus is God and man at the same time. Jesus has combined man and God, thereby making mankind into God along with God. Because of this, the two great laws - loving God above all things, and loving your neighbor as yourself - have taken on a whole new meaning. Man has become limitless because of the love of God.
The interesting thing is that God can do anything. Man as god, therefore, has the ability to deny his position as god. Atheists do this. They will be tossed into the lake of fire, simply because that is what they have will for themselves.
Interesting. I am not sure about the statement as "Man as god" though. That seems a bit dangerous to go there. We are made in His image, but we are not equal to God. But I do like your description of Jesus being God and man at the same time. It does cause an interesting spin on Loving God and your neighbor as yourself.
But that said, in response to Rassah, the reason it is "unfair" as I put it for God to suffer for our sins, is that it is kind of like a parent that has a child that makes a huge mistake, for example the child decides to play with matches and then burns the house down, the parent will have to pay for that mistake even though it was not the parent's fault the house burned down. So in a way it is unfair that the parent has to pay for the child's stupid decisions. (of course we have the choice to either allow God to pay for our mistakes or not unlike this analogy) I suppose God could have created us without the ability to make any mistakes but then we would have to have been created without a free will. But it is our free will that sets us apart from God's other creation. I think I wrote this before in one of the other threads, but I believe that God wanted to have a true relationship with His creation not because we have to serve Him, but because we choose to. It is like if I put a magic ring on my spouse and He loved me because the ring forced Him too. What if the magic ring made my husband do everything I wanted him to do for me. It seems tempting.
But at some point wouldn't I want to know if he really loved me? I would want to take the ring off and see how he really feels. God has removed the "magic ring" and we have the choice to try and know him or we can just do our own thing and reject him, or even say He doesn't exist. But that said, there will come a day when we will be accountable of those choices we have made. It doesn't matter if we don't believe in God or not. Not believing in God does not then cause God to not exist. Our belief has nothing to do with His existence.