Rapping with Yoda, part deux

So yesterday I answered a question for a friend wishing to be anonymous and we named him Yoda.

Yoda responded as you can see on the comments of the blog before this one.

But there was a follow up portion of his original question that I think presupposed a different answer than the one I gave. Nevertheless, we'll take a crack at it.

Yoda wrote:
"The other question: are you saying that God is a father who will allow his child to be brutally slain, just to prove a point? What kind of barbaric god is this? How could you worship such a savage figure or practice such a bloodthirsty belief? Anyone who has been a loving parent should shudder at the thought of allowing or sacrificing their own child for a demonstration of any kind at all!!"

The last part of this question I think was sufficiently addressed yesterday but we'll address the rest.

These are questions to call out the concept of the three O God. God is traditionally accepted in Christianity to be: Omnipotent (all powerful), Omniscient (all knowing) and Omnibenevolent (all good). Some do argue these tenets but I know Catholicism and most Christianity roles with them.

So if God is those three O's, we move forward. If he is not, they are valid questions that lead one to believe he wouldn't be worthy of worship, which is false.

If God is omnipotent and omniscient, then worship of him pretty much a good idea regardless of whether he does good or deplorable things. A being of inconvenience power that knows everything would be a better friend than enemy. But it is the goodness of God that makes worship of him truly right.

A being with those three O's who is also the creator of all things is of course worthy of worship.

Now to his actions in the world, they are by nature good. (Here I have no idea what the Church teaches so it's just me talking). If God is those three O's, anything he does is by nature good and just. Having all the folks in Jericho killed? Good. Killing first born in Egypt? Good.

Dying and suffering as Christ on the cross? Good.

Now as to Christ and the cross. Yoda calls this a demonstration. This was in some ways a demonstration of God's love but it was also a very real sacrifice that actually accomplished something.

Shoot I went and ran out of time again. Ok, don't consider this blog complete yet. I'll come back to it at lunch tomorrow and flesh it out more. SOrry.