sandorski
No Lifer
- Oct 10, 1999
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Humanity didn't put humanities sins on Jesus, God/Jesus did as an undeserved gift. Christ was offered by God, through God, AS God via his infinite loving grace. It is the prerogative of the wronged(God) to issue forgiveness of, and to, the wrongdoers(Humanity). Hitchens vicarious redemption via human sacrifice claim is only half true and purposely interpreted negatively. Namely, its demonstratively not Christian doctrine, nor has it ever been, that humanity decided the terms of its vicarious redemption and arbitrarily put them on some "eccentric preacher", crucified him, washed their hands and called it a day.
Hitchens, because he doesn't believe in Christian doctrine and theology, purposely leaves out fundamental aspects of Christian claims allowing him to build a straw-man par excellence. It's akin to attempting to disprove the Pythagorean theorem by changing the operator and removing a few exponents, then claiming how stupid and false it is.
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