Now yes, to us atheists the entire Bible is pointless, but that’s not the point I’m making here. Let’s break down the most famous verse from the whole damn thing. “For god so loved the world”-The one in which he regretted making us, knew he was going to regret it, and did what anyone does when they regret something, change nothing and repeat it “That he gave his only begotten son”- Two things here. First of all, having one son is a choice god made. He’s all powerful, he could’ve had infinite sons, he just chose to have one, not really that meaningful guys. Second, he makes the fucking rules. He gave his son doesn’t mean jack shit when you’re omnipotent. In fact, it makes it worse. You could’ve just hand waved everything away, but instead, chose to have your kid nailed to a tree for some blood magic ritual. You could’ve done anything, but chose to torture your kid. Got it… “So whoever may believe in him…”- Great, so now for god doing things exactly the way he wanted, if I just kiss his ass until I die, I’ll be rewarded. Thanks, but no. Another thing I like to look at is pride here. For someone who says pride is evil, he sure is prideful. Rather than admit he made a mistake with humans when he regretted making us, he turns it on us saying sin and how we’re the problem. Hell, the whole point of the religion is to tell him how great he is forever. Real convenient that he hates pride. Just a thought on this verse and its ideas…
First of all, having one son is a choice god made.
Interesting tangent: According to the OT, god has many many sons and they love fucking humans.
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in1 man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
And if anyone thinks the sons of got are metaphorical, sure, then so's Jesus.
What verses are those?
Genesis 6:4
But Jesus was the only begotten son, the only offspring, the other sons were made. God chose to procreate organically (if unconventionally) just the one time, according to the Bible.
Or the Bible contradicts itself like Jesus's contradictory genealogies, one of which contains Noah.
Or that