{"id":16381,"date":"2015-01-05T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T05:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=16381"},"modified":"2015-01-20T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T05:18:40","slug":"the-absent-creators-redundant-saviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2015\/01\/the-absent-creators-redundant-saviour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absent Creator&#8217;s Redundant Saviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignnone wp-image-16382\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2.jpg?resize=492%2C752\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2.jpg?resize=63%2C96&amp;ssl=1 63w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2.jpg?resize=197%2C300&amp;ssl=1 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Above is a page from &#8216;Jerusalem: Chronicles From The Holy City&#8217; by Guy Delisle, that reminds us of how much violent conflict there continues to be in supposedly a holy land, due to clashing beliefs over somewhat similar yet somewhat different creators and saviours. \u00a0This led to the below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Part 1:<\/span> The Absent Creator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an &#8216;only one life&#8217; belief system,<br \/>\nthat says all are from a good creator,<br \/>\nwho demands that faith in a saviour<br \/>\nis the only way to salvation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Does this mean that those born<br \/>\nbefore this saviour are condemned by default,<br \/>\nwith no chance of being saved?<br \/>\nIf so, how can the creator be good?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">A good creator would not create non-believers too.<br \/>\nThere is then no such good creator,<\/span><br \/>\nand\u00a0the good creator idea is<br \/>\nboth self-destroyed and self-condemned?<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Part 2:<\/span> The Redundant Saviour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if those born before are saved by default,<br \/>\nwhy does a saviour need to come after to save the rest,<br \/>\nwhen all will be continually saved by default,<br \/>\nwithout the coming of this saviour?<\/p>\n<p>Either this saviour need not come,<br \/>\nor this saviour who comes is not a true saviour of &#8216;all&#8217;,<br \/>\nas there is faith demanded,<br \/>\nwhich means many non-believers will be condemned.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">A true saviour would not condemn non-believers too.<br \/>\nThere is then no such true saviour,<\/span><br \/>\nand\u00a0the true saviour idea is<br \/>\nboth self-condemned and self-destroyed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above is a page from &#8216;Jerusalem: Chronicles From The Holy City&#8217; by Guy Delisle, that reminds us of how much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[708,349,244],"class_list":["post-16381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-creator","tag-faith","tag-god","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}