Originally posted by Christianbookworm
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With regard to your questions about Jesus's death, the theology of most Christians tends to hold that the killing of Jesus was a particularly bad act because he was God. As you have noted in this thread, my assessment of moral value based on the mental attributes of the victim would likewise mean that killing God who had significant/infinite mental attributes would be a particularly bad act. Thus there is no difference in this regard between the statements of my own moral views and of standard Christian belief. With regard to Jesus' forgiving his killers, it is standard practice in our society that the victim is the person who is capable if they wish of offering forgiveness to those who have offended them or harmed them. Jesus, like any victim of any crime, is the person who is then in the position to forgive, or not, those who have wronged and harmed him. If you wished to invoke Christian theology, you could say that Jesus himself due to his divine nature and infinite mental attributes was more capable of extending an offer of forgiveness than any normal human would be.
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