Re Jesus' sacrifice & atonement. Sacrifice was God's way of making the ancient people regret their sins. One way of doing that is to sacrifice something very special, therefore they would miss that special/perfect/the best of the flock animal bc of that sin.
Some people, especially the ancient cultures, didn't really give much thought of evil past actions on their part. Ancient cultures were much much unlike the moral (or supposedly moral) attitude we have today.
God loved everyone, even the ones that were evil, so when people did things that hurt themselves, God wanted them to change that so they would love not only others, but themselves also. But many things that people do not only hurt themselves, but hurt others while they hurt themselves.
I don't understand the "attack" reference.
God doesn't give anyone the power to hurt others. The choice to hurt others is something some people freely choose to do. If God limited people to only do 'good things' we would be like robots with no free will or choices. If people want to do bad things, that's something they & we suffer the consequences for.
We live in a fallen world & we experience whatever comes down the line ...... no matter good or bad, bc of sin was introduced by Adam's 1st sin. from that point on, we are a victim of makinds own sins.
i messed up should have said dont know why some one would need atonement if sin is something that makes you feel bad
if your actions don't cause you regret then they are not bad to you haivng god add in an extra cause of regret calls into question whether or not what god labels sin is bad for some one
acton that hurt yourself don't require sacrifice not sure why a loving god would allow people to hurt others without the consent of those hurt
or why such a god would not clearly spell out its preferred morality to every member of the human race directly there's no need to waist generation upon generation on an unguided refinement process for morality people could still disagree but if the gods views made sense and weer shown to be helpful they would be widely adopted
again a god that lets people hurt others without consent is itself evil and bears some blame since harm to others wan not necessary but an option the god chose
attack means the same as punish in this case
and yes god give you the power to hurt others if i swing a rock at your skull and it doesn't bounce off or pas harmlessly though you or stop just before it hits you with the energy of the swing getting transferred harmlessly someplace else but instead i can shove a rock into your head then the god allows that because it built the universe to let me do that without getting so much as your agreement
and if i hurt or kill you you feel pain without the ability to dampen it or switch it of at will takes a long time to heal and you may not heal fully and don't auto resurrect also ebcase the god built the world that way
with universal and power power comes responsibility for the chains of cause and effect you optinaly build into your universe
furthermore your god dosent seem to be championing the cause of other people you hurt punishing until they say justice has been meat instead it seems to smite til it reaches satisfaction for itself
we already have some robot like features we don't get to choose what we desire or dislike and have restrictions on are power to get what we want and avoid what we don't want while other people can force their wills on us
if you don't care what other people consider to be good or bad why is it good to build at best partial robot s;aves you bribe or punish rather then automation
i don't normally consider robotics to be morally inferior to slavery
if you do care about free will and an individual exploration or morality why don't you ensure the sovereignty of people over themselves to begin with so that any harm done to them is of their choosing so they can judge the experience for themselves which would safe gur all the freedoms we currently have and give us more freedom in general while eliminating most if not all evil and mitigating its effects
if god is all powerful then the world is nto fallen its what the god intended nothing forced an all powerful god to change the nature of the world because one its creations ( 2 in this case since they both ate the fruit and adam was not even the 1st to do so) did exactly what their god knew they would do which triggered the events it chose would happen in advance
