"God" is One, not 3. Oookay, 1x1x1=1 whereas 1+1+1=3, agreed. God is and has always been One -- when he was creating the heavens & earth, land & water, day & night, man & beast, and all that -- he was a single entity (no Jesus, no holy ghost? or those "aspects" were within but silent?); how did that work, I wonder? (these thoughts inspired by C. Stilwell re: Sapphries Mon Oct 8).
Anyway so the one god put his "chosen people" through numerous trials and tribulations (bondage, slavery, escape, desert for 40 years, laws & commandments, orders to murder other tribes, rain for 40 days, earth flooded for about a year) then the survivors could live on land again -- all during this period announcing he's a jealous god, a vengeful god, a loving god (but only if his subjects gave him lots of praise, veneration, and worship) -- and during this entire time we hear nothing, zero, zippo, nada about or from Jesus or the holy ghost. Then the one god goes silent, poof.
About 400 years later, the one god is so upset with his creation (man) that he demands a blood sacrifice to absolve the sins of mankind. The Jesus aspect somehow awakens(?), somehow separates(?) from the one god, and is birthed (by a peasant virgin) as a human baby in the same general area of earth the "chosen people" were.
As Jesus reaches adulthood, he refers to his "father" god, although Jesus is actually this same being(?). Jesus preaches the "word of god" (which hasn't yet been written as canon), says he comes with a sword to enforce said word, but adds and modifies some of the messages and adds the concept of hellfire and damnation for those who do not believe he is "son of god" and/or do not accept him as messiah, the only way to "god" in heaven, after life on earth. The one god expects his previously "chosen people" to convert or be damned to eternal torment(?). Jesus dies, is re-animated, and ascends to heaven where becoming once again one god, awaits the end of the world as we know it.
If god is omniscient, all-knowing, all-wise, all-seeing, all-powerful, omnipotent then why didn't he know the humans he created would disappoint him? Why didn't he create humans in a way so things would turn out like he wanted? Why would he demand a blood sacrifice for man's shortcomings, then satisfy the blood sacrifice with himself (as his own son) -- why not just save time and possible pain and call the whole thing off or "never-mind"?
If god is all-knowing, all-seeing etc., he knew beforehand what would occur, including that the dying wasn't really dead; so how was that really a sacrifice anyway? Further, why did Jesus (and Mohammed for that matter) ascend bodily into heaven; just for the "show" for the masses? Are they still "walking around" heaven in physical form? Or were the 'meat sacks" discarded to join the elements of the void?
Does any of this make any sense to you?
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