Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 56
56 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction ment of those created by Him, people who were not His sons or daughters, they were to be punished eternally? But when it came to the punishment of His own ‘Son’, for sins he had voluntarily taken upon himself, suddenly the punishment was reduced to only three days and three nights. No comparison whatsoever. If this is justice then let justice not be. How would God look at the conduct of human beings, whom He has Himself created with His right hand, if they dispense justice as they learnt it from Him by applying different measures to their own children, and very different to those of others? Will God the Father watch this loyal imitation with ecstasy or horror? This is very difficult indeed to answer. What did Atonement Change? As far as the effect of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as in relation to the punishment of sin is concerned, we have already established that faith in Jesus Christ as has in no way reduced the punishment of sin, prescribed by God, for Adam and Eve and their progeny. All human mothers still bear their children with the pains of labour, and it is still with labour that man earns his bread. We can consider this from another angle, that of a broad comparison between the Christian and non-Christian world since the time of Jesus Christ as. No believers in Christ as can show a remarkable change, in any period of history, of their women delivering their children without pains, and their men earning their bread without labour. They do not show any difference in this regard in com- parison to the non-Christian world.