Law and Order

The Atheist, Christopher Hitchens believes God is hypocritical when he says, "Thou shalt not kill..." yet within just a few chapters -- the Lord himself orders the Levites to execute a group of Hebrew idolaters. While others go as far to say the Genesis flood make God guilty of genocidal murder.
From the very beginning the Lord placed limits on man, warning him as to the consequences for crossing those bounds.
In Genesis 2:17 the Lord spoke to Adam and said, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely DIE." 1 John 3:4 says, "... sin is the transgression of the law." The punishment for Adam's sin, according to God's law, was DEATH. After the fall of Adam the Lord used men to preach his law starting with Able and continuing to Noah. The world at Noah's time understood full well the consequences for breaking God's law.
Genesis 6:12 says, "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold; it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth."
The Lord had to judge the pre-flood world. If not, at the least, he would have been hypocritical --and, at the worst, an accomplice to sin, by refusing to uphold the law. The flood demonstrates Gods holiness as a righteous, yet before his wrath was poured out upon the earth he gave man the means and opportunity for restoration within his law.
Notice 1 Peter 3:20, "... the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing..."
And again in 2 Peter 3:9, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

"... the wages of sin is DEATH."

Because of God's obligation to the law he can not forgive man without satisfying the requirements of the law first. God came into the world as the man Jesus Christ becoming subject to the law. Galatians 4:4 reads, "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made UNDER THE LAW,"
Jesus Christ lived ACCORDING to the law and therefore GUILTLESS before the law. The law could not require his death because he had not sinned. Because Jesus was sinless he could legally step in and lay down as a substitute for sinful man.
Galatians 3:13a says, Christ hath redeemed us from the CURSE OF THE LAW, being made a curse for us...
And again in 1 John 3:16a, "Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us..."
Contrary to Christopher Hitchens opinion, God has gone to great lengths to save man. Even to the point of dieing in his place. It is man's transgression of the law that condemns him to hell ...NOT GOD.
John 3:17 says, "For God sent NOT his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."
When Jesus died upon the cross he said, "It is finished". At that moment the payment DEMANDED by the law had been paid in full. Now God could legally forgive man.
God does not force this payment upon man, but offers it in the form of a gift. This gift must be received by simply trusting in Jesus Christ -- calling on him to save.

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[MsCoralline]

@stubbornVN

Something sillier than Christianity? Perhaps only Scientology and Mormonism -- you've got to throw a lot of bullshit together to get sillier than New Testament stuff.

[stubbornVN]

The supposedly guiltless christians were overrun by the roman empire initially and they ceased to exist as a stable group.

The delivery of their message supposedly persisted.

I say (by deduction) you lie, it did not persist and what you read now is the message and church of the romans (who bootstrapped this religion over their much sillier less modern religion).