Sunday Sermon: Challenging Perfection.

A central tenet of Christianity is the claim that Yhwh is a perfect being. If he is perfect, then it should follow that he is unchanging, as having to change one's policy indicates that there must have been some flaw in the previous policy that made it inadequate, and required the change. In fact, Yhwh himself tells us that he doesn't change in Malachi 3:6.

Since Yhwh is unchanging, he wouldn't declare that he has enemies whom he hates, and whom he will do ill to (Hosea 9:15; Leviticus 20:23) but declare that his followers must love and do good to those who hate them (Matthew 5:44), right?
He wouldn't command that a man be stoned to death for picking up sticks on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36) and then turn around and command that those who are without sin should cast the first stone (John 8:7), right? He most certainly wouldn't order the death of children, and command that pregnant women be cut open and their unborn children killed (Hosea 13:16) but then turn around and command that people ought to "turn the other cheek" (Matthew 5:39), right?

Obviously if he did any of these things, it would mean that YHWH is inconsistent in his policies (as I've included the verses, I hope that his inconsistency is beyond question). If YHWH is inconsistent or changes, then he must be a liar for claiming not to change. Clearly if YHWH is a liar, yet commands that people not lie as one of his "ten commandments" then he is unable to live up to his own standard of perfection, and so he is imperfect and is himself a sinner. Therefore, because YHWH is a sinner - as we have established - then he is either unworthy to condemn us for failing to live up to those standards which he has also failed to live up to; or he must judge himself by the same rule he uses to judge us, and must similarly condemn himself to an eternity in hell for his own sins.

Further, as YHWH is clearly a hell bound sinner; and as Jesus stated in no uncertain terms that that YHWH is perfect (Matthew 5:48), then Jesus is also a liar and thus he is also a hell bound sinner. Because Jesus was a sinner, it follows by definition that he was not perfect. Because Jesus' sacrifice hinged upon him being a perfect sacrifice, his imperfection proves that his sacrifice was in vain. Therefore the Bible itself proves that Jesus is not your savior. Believing in him will do nothing for you.

This has been your Sunday Sermon, go without god.