kal-el said:
Evidently, he's a sadist.
You would think so.
Cause some got into his good graces and kissed his ***.
He didn't die for sins. That's ridiculous, a 3rd party cannot forgive someone for something they do. That's a bit like if I were to punch you in the face, and I ask God for forgiveness, that's asinine. Only you can forgive me.
Okay, kel, come on...you are pretty level headed so lets discuss this without all the venom, alright. Now, bear with me for a minute...
I agree that only the person you inflicted harm on can offer you his forgiveness...but there also has to be an outlet finding forgiveness for yourself. But multiple people are harmed when one commits sin...I'm not talking about eating shellfish as a sin or having love for another human being that you shouldnt sin or assinine cant wear blended fabrics sin. Those arent sins, they arent even real transgressions. Sin is by design, something that can have no positive result. A real sin is something that causes you to be damned if you do and damned if you dont. God doesnt want you to sin, because he doesnt want you to suffer the negative results of doing so.
When one lies, for example...he is not only hurting the person he is lying to...he is hurting himself. Its like he is forcing himself into loneliness because he is making it impossible for anyone to truly know him. If he comes clean with the lies, then he alienates himself still because no one can truly trust him at that point. So, its better not to lie.
When one kills for gain, he must always remember the life he took and he also knows for certain that human life can be taken, so he lives in a sense of fear for his own life. Its like an innocence is deliberately destroyed.
Those are just a couple of examples...God offers some people a way to process the sin they see and provides something to strive toward as a means of ending the natural and negative tendency of man to be self destructive.