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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 01/01/2009 : 11:14:27 [Permalink]
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The complete idea is a bit retarded anyway you look at it.
Men sinned against God, so God, rather than forgiving the sin outright, send a part of himself to be martyred, hence adding to the 'Overall sin equation' to... make himself forgive? Or force himself to considered sin repaid?
It's like, I am the mob and Bob owes me money he can't repay, but I am not going to simply forgive Bob, I am going to have to break his legs... except that, I am a really nice guy, so I am going to break my own legs instead than Bob's... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Rick Warren to do invocation on January 20th?
