Way I always took it was by specifically abolishing original sin, Jesus abolished being judged for your associations and family, and instead being judged for your own choices in life.

Basically Christianity tells a narrative of divine salvation going from being a gift for a chosen people provided their maintaining their covenant with their God, to said covenant being abolished, and said salvation now being what people experience from the act of choosing to do good things for yourself and for the folks around you.

From justice being tied to a code of blood feuding to a code of retaliatory law, to a choice you make every day to spread good through your actions.

Which he knew was about to happen and didn't stop.

Here's what I don't get, among many, many other parts of the bible. If he's omnipotent and omniscient, and we're all sinners, why not just forgive us? Why allow -- no, require -- your son to be tortured and killed first? I want someone to explain it to me like I'm in Sunday school in a way that makes more sense than "because the bible is a work of fiction written by superstitious men who were obsessed with blood sacrifice".

Eh, (old testament events aside) I'd probably do the same thing in his position lol

God is just a scientist. He/She (why gender a god that would be beyond genders?) are just conducting scientific experiments to see if they can make another version of "God."

See God is just really lonely and wants an equal to talk to.

1 and 2 could still be true even if he was inactive, and it could be that letting us fuck up on our own is the point? Like how much moral value is the right decision if it was made for you by an all powerful hand you couldn't possibly reject the influence of?

For a choice to be moral, it has to of course result in the moral outcome, but it also has to come from the genuine wish to do the moral thing because you understand why it's the moral thing and wish to live in that understanding.

So God stepping in and fixing every problem would basically be an act robbing humanity of the ability to act morally.

I think it doesn't matter if there is or isn't a god, and that getting bogged down in the debate of it is an act of missing the point entirely.

This is correct. It's capitalized because English was practically built around Christianity

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-analysis-reveals-excess-deaths-attributed.html

Most “excess deaths” are directly COVID-related, in that COVID infection was the only reason why they died, a d yet their death was not properly recorded as having been from COVID, mainly for political reasons or lack of pre-death testing (because you cannot test a corpse).

And that's only 1 global pandemic!