"Jesus died for your sins" is top 2 most emotionally manipulative bullshit ever conjured by religion, and its not No. 2.

I'll explain.

So God, in his infinite wisdom, decided he HAD to sacrifice his son (himself) to himself, to cleanse the world of sin. This is after he had drowned the world for sin, STILL, sin prevailed.

And in the typical archaic nature of religious rituals, he decided, again, that something/someone had to die for him to be appeased. And this time, the sacrifice for sin had to be his son/himself.

Now, this sin that God had to sacrifice himself for originated because man ate a fruit from a tree, which gave man the knowledge of good and evil.

A tree that was created and put within man's reach by God.

Also, there's no way the talking snake (lol) that 'deceived' man into eating the fruit, entered that garden without the consent/knowledge of an omniscient and omnipresent God.

So God, passively/actively permitted the deceit (Remember Job?).

So in essence, God invented sin, or at least, its detonator, put it in a tree in a garden with the first people in it, then let Satan infiltrate it in the form of a serpent, knowing fully well the resultant effect, cos omniscience.

Then be comes back to die for the same sin he invented, put within man's reach, and allow man to succumb to. And oh, he expects man to be eternally grateful for such sacrifice and chance at redemption.

Questions :

1. Why does an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, all forgiving God require sacrifice as a criteria for forgiveness/cleansing of sin? Even humans who're regarded as lesser beings are capable forgiveness without any death.

2. Why is it so sinful to God that man decided to have sense?

Why is it that the one thing he forbade man from doing was what will give them knowledge of good and evil?

Why did he want man to remain dumb, put knowledge within man's reach, and punish man for taking it?

3. Why is God such a fraudulent & diabolical Yahoo boy that creates a poison, feeds it to you, and offers you the antidote, expecting you to be eternally grateful?

P.S, this thread is based on the very improbable context that the Christian god is real, and not a way for stone age illiterates to make sense of the world.