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And also:

It gets even weirder if you take the Trinitarian view:

It would go something like this:

God, who is omnipotent, can't withstand imperfection.

God, who is perfect, created imperfect people and then cursed them for being imperfect by hiding himself from them.

God, the author of all law, but who is evidently subservient to it, since he's unable to change it, demands that the law be fulfilled, that all debts be paid. Failure to pay the debt, no matter how large or small, results in the same punishment -- eternal damnation.

God, in a rare compassionate moment, finds a loophole in his own law: payment of the debt by a second party. At this point it becomes clear it's not really about individual sin, it's about placation, it's about balancing the books. God doesn't really care who took the money from the till as long as someone makes up for the shortage.

God, knowing his creation is hopelessly imperfect, decides, in another moment of compassion, to punish himself to satisfy his own law. He decides to take the money out of his right pocket and put it in his left pocket.

So God spins off a part of himself -- Jesus. Then he has this part of his omnipotent, eternal self tortured (well, "tortured" in a human sense, but surely nothing worth noting for an omnipotent being) for a few hours (seconds out of eternity) and eventually reabsorbed into his glorious, resplendent, three-sided self.

Then God, being the perfect codependent martyr, tells his imperfect children they can come home if they but acknowledge the "sacrifice" of himself to himself for their sakes. Otherwise, it's off to hell with us to suffer forever, because he loves us so much. The "lucky" ones get to spend forever at Gods feet telling him what a wonderful guy he is.