God is more forgiving today because his own beloved son, Jesus, committed many sins here on earth: My Religious Me; Part III

(By Pius Vilakati, writing as Mr Pius Rinto)

God is more forgiving today because his own beloved son, Jesus, committed many sins here on earth 
My Religious Me: Part III

We read in the bible that God was not an easily-forgiving God before Jesus arrival on earth. One mistake and he sends you packing, and even curses all your descendants for your wrong. He cursed Adam and Eve just for one mistake; eating a nice sweet fruit. He even went on to curse the rest of humanity for the wrongs of two people. Not a loving God.

Then he swept people with a great flood, so says the bible, sparing only one family. Apparently he even denied Moses the opportunity to get into the Promised Land simply because Moses at a certain point struck a rock angrily instead of just pointing at it as God had commanded. For this minor wrong he got such heavy punishment. How cruel!
Remember that he even punished Zachariah, with numbness for not believing that his very old wife would bear him a son, John the Baptist. The punishment was for the whole duration of the pregnancy.

But take note how God suddenly develops a soft and patient heart after Jesus’s arrival (and departure from this world). Suddenly everyone must forgive, and you can even apologise to God five seconds before your death and your sins will be forgiven. Now let’s interrogate this sudden change of God’s approach.

Before God sent Jesus to the world he did not have any experience how it was like to be a human being. He expected human beings to be so perfect and never to make any mistakes (For a deeper analysis on this, see my analysis on “How God failed to understand the process of evolution. My Religious Me: Part I” on one of my recent Facebook posts). See how he harshly punished many of his previous prophets who committed some errors whilst carrying his commands. When most, if not all, of his prophets could not carry out his commands exactly as he had stated, he decided to send his ‘beloved son’, Jesus to do the right thing the right way.

Jesus, we are told, took the physical form of a human being. That means he experienced everything that human beings experienced. This includes dreams (wet ones as well), pain, sadness, forgetfulness, tiredness, anger, foolishness and so on. He was thus a human being, though, if the teachings of the Church are to be believed, he had already pre-existed in heaven. If he was indeed a human being then he committed many sins here on earth. This obviously may have alerted God that living here on earth is not as easy as he had assumed. This practically opened God’s eyes. When Jesus, for instance, got angry and beat people up for selling in the temple, God understood the frustrations of this world.

Jesus even forgave a hard-core criminal next to him on the cross. Obviously he was also thinking that one should not throw stones whilst living in a glass house; he also had many sins of his own that he wished to be forgiven.

The bible says that Jesus then went to heaven to be with his father. With all these facts and analysis in mind, one then can imagine that Jesus constantly tells his father in heaven when he is angry with a human being here on earth that he should give that person another chance. Since Jesus himself committed many sins here on earth, he always was ready to forgive a person and even taught his disciples that they should forgive someone 70 times 70 times.

I could write a whole dissertation explaining the reason why God changed from being a harsh God to a sweet loving God, but the above is a summary of my thoughts on the topic at hand.

I now make another pause.