Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 57
Sin and Atonement 57 As far as the disposition to commit sins is concerned, the world of believers in Christ as compared with the world of non-believers does not record any evidence that the disposition to commit sin is totally obliterated among the category of believers in Christ as. In addition to this, one may indeed wonder why having faith in God is considered so inferior to having faith in His ‘Son’. This is especially relevant to the time before this tightly kept, age-old secret (that God had a ‘Son’) was disclosed to mankind. Of course there were people who had faith in God and His Unity. Also innumerable people were born since Christ as in every re- ligion and land of the earth who believed in God and His one- ness. Why did faith in God not bear any influence on human crime and punishment? Again why could not God the Father display that nobility of suffering for the sake of sinners which His nobler ‘Son’ displayed? Most certainly the Son seems to possess higher moral values (God forbid) than his less civilised Father. Is Divinity evolving and still in the process of attaining perfection, one may ask?