Since God controls everything, things have consequences because he makes it so. Also, there are things who genuenly have no negative consequences (homosexuality for example), and the only reason you consider it to be wrong is "because God says so" (in other words you're following someone's whim, not to mention a someone who doesn't even exist, but that's beside the point).
Also, Scoobes accurately described my views better then I did. This whole situation is blackmail. It's no different then someone pointing a gun at you and saying "do what I say or I'll blow your brais out". Sure, you have a choice: submit or die.
Why do you want to see this as control, when it`s really not like that?
First of all, any kind of human relationship has consequences for mistakes/sins. Is it all blackmail too?
Second, seeing it as control doesn`t really speak the truth about the relationship between God and men.
When Jesus died for our sins, when he washed the feet of the apostles, that only showed how God loves us and wants for us nothing but the best: love and salvation.
You don`t like consequences for your actions? Then you probably won`t connect with anyone in your life, since when people fail towards someone they are eventually punished in any shape or form.
I was more talking of the motivations for his death. I also don't see how he died for anyone other than for his own crime (or percieved crime). This whole part of the Christian religion always seemed ridiculous me. If God (who damned humanity in the first place, for the mistake of only two people, the benevolent guy that he is) decided he wanted to forgive them, this whole Juses thing was really unnecessary.
He died because a few people wanted Him dead because he brought a message completely different. He died because His death would bring redemption for men. His death means everything: if you die with Jesus, you ressurrect with Him. Know what this means? It means that those who love God will live with Him for all eternity. And it also shows that God loves us to the point of suffering for our sake. That`s control right?
So, it really was necessary.
Again, he made the rules. He wants people to suffer if they don't want to be under his control.
The day you show a statement with a less pessimistic view of God of the world, i`ll be surprised! J Just kidding.
If he wanted people to suffer He woudn`t have sent His son to die for us.
Unlike taking drugs or drinking alcohol, homosexuality isn't harmful, quite the contrary, a same sex relationship brings happiness to a homosexual. And if no one is hurt "physically or spiritually" then what reason could you popssibly have to deny people happiness and make them hate themselves? This would make your God downright evil and a bully, making people hate themselves and feel ugly (something which his followers do quite often).
So you assume that drugs are harmful. Know why? Because it destroys men. As greed and egostism, etc.
All that is considered sin is, by essence, an opposition to God. The act of homosexuality is seen as perversion of human nature - from a religious point of view.
Like prostitution. No harm done, people enjoy it, so what`s wrong. That`s the problem many people don`t realize because they are seeing through their own eyes and not through God`s eyes.
If it`s not God, than it`s a deviation. It`s like a silent corruption that pushes them away from God.
