Kelvin O johnson@_OKJ__
This is ridiculous
Once upon a time, a father gathered his children and said, “You have broken my law. Justice demands punishment. But because I love you, I will take the punishment upon myself. I will suffer, be humiliated, killed, and then rise again. This is my sacrifice for your sins,”
The children stood silent for a moment, then one asked, “Father, but who is this sacrifice to?”
He replied, “To uphold justice.”
“But whose justice?” the child pressed. “If you are the source of the law, the judge who enforces it, and the one paying the penalty, then nothing stands outside you. No creditor is being repaid. No higher standard is being satisfied. You are not constrained….you are deliberately and unnecessarily choosing this.”
Another child stepped forward. “ this isn’t a sacrifice in any meaningful sense. A sacrifice implies giving something up to another to resolve a real obligation. But here, nothing leaves your possession, nothing is transferred, and no external demand is met. You are staging suffering inside a system you fully control.”
The father said nothing.
“And more than that,” the first child continued, “you present this as necessary…as though forgiveness is impossible without blood. But if you are allpowerful, that cannot be true. You could forgive without violence, without death, without spectacle. So when you tell us this had to happen, you are asking us to accept a contradiction….that you are both unrestricted and yet bound by a rule you made.”
The children looked at him, now not with confusion, but clarity.
“You say this proves your love,” one said, “but it looks indistinguishable from a performance…an unnecessary display of suffering that resolves nothing outside your own decision to require it. And when you insist it was the only way, you shift the burden onto us, as if we are responsible for a system you designed entirely.”
Silence fell.
And in that silence, the ridiculousness of the story is revealed…
…This not a profound necessity, but a closed loop…where the author of the law creates the debt, demands the payment, pays it to himself, and calls it justice.
Any rational non-indoctrinated mind with intact logical and moral sensibilities,see clearly,that this story is complete nonsense.