Browse Search Feedback Other Links Home Home The Talk.Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy

Index to Creationist Claims,  edited by Mark Isaak,    Copyright © 2004
Previous Claim: CA651   |   List of Claims   |   Next Claim: CA660

Claim CA652:

"[I]f physical human death was not really an important part of the penalty for sin, then the agonizingly cruel physical death of Christ on the cross was not necessary to pay that penalty, and thus would be gross miscarriage of justice on God's part."

Source:

Morris, Henry M. 2000. The vital importance of believing in recent creation. Back to Genesis 138 (June): a-c.

Response:

  1. The claim is a non sequitur. According to creationists, God instituted the penalties for sin. If God has any power to speak of, he could have withdrawn the penalties whenever he wanted. Neither Christ's life nor his death would have been necessary. This is true whether or not the penalty for sin included physical death. It is not for us to say what is necessary for God to do.

  2. If physical death was part of the penalty for sin, then Christ did not pay that penalty because physical death is still with us.

  3. Origins are not determined by one's personal decision of what religion to follow.

Previous Claim: CA651   |   List of Claims   |   Next Claim: CA660

created 2001-2-18