Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 45
Sin and Atonement 45 feel pain and agony if they were ‘two in one’ and ‘one in two?’ So another question would require many a long dialogue between theologians regarding the possibility of God being able to suffer pain and punishment. Even if He were able to do so, only half of God would suffer while the other half would be incapable of doing so either by design or by the compulsion of His nature. As we proceed further in the shadowy world of this twisted philosophy, light begins to get dimmer and dimmer and we find confusion heaped upon confusion. Another problem is, whom was Christ as addressing if he was God himself? When he addressed his father, he himself was an inseparable part of the Father, so we are told. So what was he saying and to whom? This question must be answered with a free conscience, without resorting to dogma. It becomes a dogma only when it cannot be explained in human terms. According to the Biblical statement, when Jesus as was about to give up the ghost, he cried addressing God the Father: "why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt 27:46) Who had forsaken whom? Had God forsaken God? Who Was Sacrificed? The other problem we have to take note of is that the man in Jesus as was not punished, nor by any logic should he have been punished, because he had never opted to carry the load of human- ity’s sin. This new element, entering into the debate, leads us to a very peculiar situation which we have not considered before. One is compelled to wonder about the relationship of the man in Jesus as with the inherited propensity to commit sin, common to all