One more Post Script. Forget about all the religiousness that you talk about in this thread that turns you off. It all comes down to this -- you, one on one with God. None of it is complicated and is very simple to understand for even a child.
Not complicated if you are the child of a lawyer.
I have a little time to parse this. Let's see if any of this is a turn off.
1. God created the heavens and the earth.
Through his faith, the prodigal son spent everything he had on the making, manufacturing, manifesting a combination of opposites. Heaven and earth would be examples of opposites. Opposition is a function of
more. Earth is
more than heaven, for example. Some think it is a suburb of downtown kingdom of god. It's not. The proverbial Son of God is/was the entire, and ONLY creation, perfect as created. No need for additions, subtractions, or other manifestations of more.
2. God created all life, a wonderful garden and the first humans Adam and Eve.
Life is the prime attribute of Christ, the only creation. Here is an example of taking a quality that belongs only to Christ, and applying it to the manifestations of the prodigal sons faith.
3. Adam and Eve sinned which has carried forward to all generations.
S.I.N. is seriously insane notions about Christ, the only Son of any god that is Good. In the making and manufacture of his own world, the prodigal son puts forth nothing but SINs, manifests them, pronounces them real, and proves them to be the truth. As a product of this manifestation, mankind inherits these insane notions, and propagates them through each generation of sinners.
4. God is Holy and cannot tolerate sin.
Sinners, like the prodigal son, are in self-exile. It's not so much cannot tolerate, it's that opposite conditions cannot coexist. You cannot be asleep and awake at the same time, for example. Time facilitates the alternation of opposites so the prodigal son can have both, and thus, more. Another example, the prodigal son proposes you can have both knowledge and faith, a conflation that destroys knowledge before it can destroy faith. These states of mind cannot coexist.
Christ is whole, complete (Holy). Faith fractures that. If you were to symbolize the whole Christ, you could visualize one whole loaf of bread. Faith tears the loaf into pieces. Destroys it. The fragments only "exist" because the whole loaf of bread no longer exists (is dead). Again, it's about the inability to coexist.
5. God loves his created humans and wants them to enjoy life with Him forever.
Christ's Creator loves Christ, and really knows nothing about what the prodigal son is up to with his faith, and faiths companion, imagination. There is no need, want or wish for more than the one Christ. There are no plans to bring the pig pens of the prodigal sons world into the original world, only that part of the Sons mind that is being abused.
6. But sin separates man from God.
Seriously insane notions about Christ split the mind of the prodigal son, making cognitive dissonance. Man is a product of that cognitive dissonance. As such mankind is born out of the seriously insane notions propagated through faith. Notice how mankind is separated from pretty much everything.
7. God sent his son Jesus to earth to live a sinless life but die a sinner's torturous death.
Are you making this up as you go along?
Jesus has admitted already his participation with the prodigal son in the manifestation of this world. So the only way he could be sinless is if he was actually Christ.
The prodigal son was not sent anywhere to bring anything back. A new capacity was initiated to bring the insane side of the self-exiled sons mind back to holistic unification. If you like, you could call this new capacity the Holy Spirit, a being whose initial function was to save the mind of the incapacitated son.
The Holy Spirit has not actually participated with the foolish notions that were manifested by the self-exiled mind of the son, but does call out those fragments of mind who have participated, including Jesus. It is this Jesus, working very closely with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who managed to capture a lot of attention through attention-getting-mechanisms, like miracles.
Arguably, Jesus opened the door to a club that was previously private (the private world of the prodigal son). Now it is open, light will continue to spread through the darkness till the world that came from nothing (faith), returns to the void nothingness from which it came.
8. Jesus death paid the penalty for man's sin and made man righteous before God.
There is no penalty. A world built on a foundation of faith (sand) is its own worst punishment, for all the fragments of a foolish mind that wished to participate. The manifestations of faith are indeed painful. The Holy Spirit is only interested in relieving the pain by bringing the mind back to knowledge.
There is no way to make man righteous before that which Knows. What knows, has never known man, a manifestation of faith. The existence of man, of it were true, would indeed come at the expense of Christ, the only creation that is known. Only in this sense would Christ "pay" for S.I.N.s. This payment is not so much given as it is taken by the prodigal son as an inheritance. As mentioned, it has been entirely spent. The prodigal son has lost the locus of power, so the spending spree is ended.
If faith could, it would indeed cause the death of what knows (Christ). This is due to the functional impossibility of co-existing.
9. When Jesus rose from the dead our debt was paid in full.
Only the child of a good trial lawyer could understand this. Actually not a very good lawyer.
All men are technically dead, compared to Christ, life itself. Jesus "rose from the dead" when he renounced manhood, and accepted Christ hood. Everything else, volunteering for crucifixion, not feeling any pain, and walking out of a tomb were theatrics...attention getting mechanisms, miracles showing that nothing about this world (faith world of the prodigal son), it's pain, its death, is real, or to be taken seriously.
Mankind does not have a debt except that it owes it's experience of "living/existing" to the death of Christ, speaking poetically from the inability to co-exist framework. You can only continue to be a human to the degree you can continually kill Christ, through your faith. You clearly have a lot of faith in mankind. This betrays your complicity, and your involvement.
10. All you have to do is believe this and accept Jesus into your heart to have eternal life.
Don't forget to drink his blood into your stomach. Then you could have the same longevity as any other vampire. Yes, you must believe this, because Christ knows it is not true. Through this faith you can, at best, prolong the experience of being a man/woman...until the Holy Spirit brings all of the shenanigans to and end.
11. Remember this: God says "it is appointed to all men once to die and then the judgement"
Oh, now you, a man, are speaking for god. Not really surprising coming from those who are ok with the death of the Only Son to obtain a more prolonged experience of existence. You want to exist so badly you are willing to be "judged". This is really peak narcissism. You, who don't exist, want to be the center of attention of what does exist. You demand validation. Sorry, you're not going to be judged. Once again, faith offers its own worst punishments through your own judgments about Christ. Seriously insane notions about Christ (S.I.N.s) are basically judgments. You should no longer pose as judge, nor should you pretend that judgment is a universal characteristic of Christ. You, oh man, cannot co-exist with Christ. That's not a judgement, that's just a fact.
In the land of judgments, the Holy Spirit, the Savior of Christ, has already given judgment upon your "god": The god of this world is powerless to kill Christ. That judgment is for the benefit of any of the mind fragments who will rise up and renounce this world. The god of this world, a world built on a foundation of faith (sand) technically does not exist. That is the judgment. You will suffer with it's faith depending on how
you judge this judgment.
12. A fraction of a second after you die you will realize what a fool you have been but you will have no excuse.
Arguably, the self-exile of the prodigal son was experienced immediately, in a fraction of a second. What cannot coexist, cannot coexist for even a fraction of any moment. The experience was shortened a great deal by the work of the Holy Spirit, and those leading the cooperation, like Jesus. So why are you still lingering in a world that is long since "finished"?
Evidence suggested you still want Christ dead, or at least dead enough for you to linger on (feel as though you, oh man, exist). There is no delay in this wish, and your experience of hell.
Conversely, there would be no delay in your actual acceptance of Christ, and your experience of Christ's current experience. It could happen in a flash, if you were ready.