Originally posted by no1marauder
If you want to believe in a fictional character who will magically fix your own inadequacies, that's your business. Buddhism doesn't believe in such nonsense; it does believe in the ability of human beings to solve their own problems. I see people doing so every day; you can believe that human beings are weak, helpless and depraved if you prefer but it s ...[text shortened]... er to the rather obvious question of why this great and powerful God would do such a thing.
Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Deu 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Deu 26:18 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Looks to me like he did it for a peculiar people unto himself. 😉