Re: Holy Empathy
Cyrus --
"Or,
God has created Man in order for Man to carry out a MISSION that has already been pre-ordered and pre-determined, i.e. to glorify God, etc, and Man is kept in the dark about his fate, and left to suffer pointlessly. This is a course of events which conforms with the Christian Church's definition of God's attributes --- but leaves Man at a most perilous position, like a disposable and much abused appliance in God's kitchen!
God as supreme sadist."
I think this is exactly the point which Goetz tries to address in the link,
"The Suffering God: The Rise of a New Orthodoxy by Ronald Goetz."
When he says,
"The death of God’s Christ is in part God’s atonement to his creatures for evil."
Cyrus --
"There is a basic, defining contradiction in the tenets of Christianity, one that my primary school teachers were getting upset over whenever I raised it at them time, and one that no Christian friend of mine (I am one too, formally) has been able to address in any satisfactory way. As expected."
What do you mean when you say, "I am one too, formally"?
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