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Originally Posted by AwwSugar
So it doesn't seem stupid to you that one being made the entire universe?
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I doesn't sound stupid that One God create heaven and Earth. When one studies cosmology everything Universe is traced back goes back to one point in space/time.
"God is One," is not just a rejection of Polytheism, it's from a ontological argument of a Supreme Being as well.
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Originally Posted by AwwSugar
And that his son was sent to die for sins? He sent his son... his actual child... who he apparently loves uncondiationally... to get tortured. Does that make sense?
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If you mean, Jesus, by the son of God, God didn't just send His Son to get torture and that was not the only reason for the Son to exist. He had a life as well.
The suffering and death of Jesus is at the nexus for the effects of sin that people commit which caused His pain and suffereing, and His love & redemption of the human race and His love for God. Jesus follows the Will of God even to death, but is also resurrected, He does it to conquer sin and death. It is not all about physical pain. Human beings have two natures a body and a soul. So the part we don't see is just as important, the passion of Jesus was also about his interior life as well, the perfection of the four Cardinal virtues - Temperence, Prudence, Fortitude and Justice, along with perfection of the Theological virtues of Faith Hope and Love.