Originally Posted by
DeviantThinker
P.S. For a certain Mr Star who will be seething at this point, I say arbitrary since God never needed to send his son to suffer. He could have forgiven the sins of humanity out of his own accord but rather than do so, he allowed Jesus to go through an incredibly painful death and his earthy relatives had to suffer from watching him die slowly too.
No, the fact that this was all for humanity's sake is not an argument. God did not need to do that, he had a choice to freely absolve humanity of it's sins or put his only son through agony and he freely chose the choice that lead to more suffering.
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