quietthinker
Well-Known Member
Sin is the problem. It started with Lucifer and he attracted a goodly amount of angels into his orbit. It has further spread its malignant tentacles to the inhabitants of Earth. It requires a solution.....and how does God solve it?You read the Bible as containing a plan on God's part to "solve the sin problem". Why is that? I read the Bible as an operation by God to descend from Heaven and spiritually advance in a plan to retake planetary territory from Lucifer. The doctrine of forgiveness comes up, and while forgiveness does not solve the fall of Satan, it is required for believers if they will be saved at the end of time.
I don't see the last judgement as a "solution to the sin problem", what is your justification for looking at it that way? After the last judgement Satan and demons will be "cast into a lake of fire or pit; destroyed". Individual people will either be saved, and live in Heaven, or lost to some other fate (eternal death, Hell).
You're going to get a final republican trail at the second coming on the last day of astronomical time, and you'll be either executed or pardoned. That's not a moral solution to the sin problem, that's cosmology.
Does God use force? ie, does he violate the free choice he has given his creatures by violence? It appears most believe so. Personally I do not think God uses violence to solve; primarily because violence doesn't solve, it births more violence.
God uses self sacrifice. This is the nature of God. We can see this in Jesus.
I see God's solution to the sin problem as out loving the opposition. Loving takes longer but ultimately it ensures sin will not raise its ugly head ever again in the Universe.
Sin has in itself the seeds of its own destruction. It's very nature is to implode. Satan and all his adherents will eventually self destruct.