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By masochistically sacrificing Himself, to Himself, to pay a price He chose to charge of His own free will, in order to cleanse us of the "taint" of actions He considers sins.
For the sake of argument let's assume what you believe happened happened and that your god is real. The problem with omnipotence is that you can't blaim anyone else for the system you set up. The crucifixion didn't need to happen to "free us from sin", God wanted to incarnate into a mortal form and be tortured to death. Why? I cannot say, but He could have chosen some other way. He could choose to not threaten us with eternal torture simply for not loving Him. That isn't love.
It is not God who rejects us, it is us that reject God
and the concept of hell is basically a place without God
you didnt want God your entire life, so yeah, you wont be with God, you have free will
but ohhh you want the privileges that come with creation and God himself but not put in any spiritual effort yourself?
God is a fair judge, and he cant just let people off UNLESS someone else takes the punishment
Jesus took the punishment
Why not? Seriously. He set up the system. Why require punishment in that system? Jesus and God are the same person (hence "triune" ), so He essentially had us torture and kill Himself to appease His own vengeance.
He could have forgiven us without preconditions. He chose to require punishment. Then He chose to be tortured and killed . Now He demands that we thank him for it or He'll punish us for eternity. That's psychopath behavior.
because there are consequences for your actions?
and the trinity is comprised of three different persons and one God
We know very little about hell currently, and dantes inferno isnt canon
Infinite consequences for finite actions? Seems disproportionate.
One all knowing God who decided to sacrifice Himself to Himself to pay a price He wanted to pay.
We know it is eternal and irrevocable, and it is meant as punishment. Punishing someone eternally is immoral. There's no way around that. It doesn't matter what they did.