The Immorality of God

The entire Christian faith (the fall of man, man’s inherent sinfulness and the need for a redeemer to die for in our place) is founded in the doctrine of Original Sin, an issue which I have dealt with in depth in regards to evolution. This doctrine states that through the first sin of Adam, sin has been passed down through mankind (we are yet to discover the ‘Sin Gene’) and therefore we are all inborn sinners. I believe that this is an abhorrent doctrine. To think that from birth, every innocent baby is already guilty before God, both for a sin committed by a non-existent ancestor, and for every sin it will ever commit in its life. The problem is that none of us choose to be born with an innate sin nature, the fact that we are born with original sin passed from Adam makes it impossible for us not to sin. So we are sentenced to eternal punishment for sins that it is impossible for us not to commit. The Ray Comfort-esque Christians will say ‘You have broken God’s Law, and God is a just God and He must punish sinners’. My issue with that is due to original sin, it has been made IMPOSSIBLE for us not to break God’s Law. What just judge would sentence someone to eternal punishment for a crime they had no choice not to commit? Moreover, what just judge would punish a person with death for the crimes of another? The doctrine of substitutionary atonement states that Jesus died in the place of mankind. Ray Comfort likes the phrase ‘Jesus paid your fine’. Sure, pay someone’s fine, but that does not take away that person’s responsibility, and the idea that a good judge would ever sentence a person to death (no matter whether the person is willing or not) to make the accused innocent in the eyes of law is deplorable.

Under God’s Law, we are all already guilty, and it is IMPOSSIBLE for us not to break the law, we are going to sin whether we want to or not. And because of that we are already condemned to eternal punishment. The only way to avoid this fate is to put our faith and trust in a scapegoat who took the punishment that we had no choice in deserving.

This is immoral paganistic scapegoating and we are punished essentially for the sin of being born. God (if the God of the Bible exists) is not just.