@Erimitus Said
Fact. Jesus said he came to cure and not kill. I come for the ill and not the well.
Fact. Yahweh kills instead of cures those in hell, which is the opposite of what Jesus' attitude was.
Only one of these facts is moral thinking and ethical actions.
Who is doing the wrong thing? Jesus or Yahweh?
What we have is an all powerful/all knowing god who is perfect, who at some point in time changed his mind about a lot of stuff.
Before he had a favorite people (the Israelites). You might say that the Israelites were team. Sometimes they won, sometimes they lost, but they were his favorite team... for a long time.
Then god changed his mind. He didn't just like team Israelites, he also like everyone else... sort of.... In anywise team Israelites was no longer #1.
In order to affect this change God had to do something... something big... one of those moments when everything is divided into before this moment and after this moment. It had to be big...really BIG... the BEST!
The idea was brilliant: God would have himself born as his on son. Then he would sacrificed his son, who was actually himself, for everyone on his team.
He did this so that people should use their free will, which they had been doing anyway.
Those who chose to use their free will to follow him get to be on his new team, and get to go to heaven and live there forever... super happy and praising him (god) ever and always. (I'm not sure, but I'm guessing the
free will thing goes away at that point, but no-one ever talks about that so I don't know for sure... maybe it isn't needed anymore...
)
The other people, the ones who chose to use their free will to not follow him (god), get cut from the team (well really they never made it past the initial
try-outs), and get to go to hell forever when they die. They on't get
free will any more.
Anyway, you might say that
before God picked his own team, but now he lets the team pick him.
It is a somewhat unique idea... except "it" is what people have been doing all along anyway.