The following is a poem by John Newton(Amazing Grace) that he had put on his gravestone. It was never a song until recently the Chorus was added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyumcWLZDjc
I saw one hanging on a tree
In agony and blood
Who fixed His loving eyes on me
As near His cross I stood
And never till my dying breath
Will I forget that look
It seemed to charge me with His death
Though not a word He spoke
My conscience felt and owned the guilt
And plunged me in despair
I saw my sins His blood had spilt
And helped to nail Him there
But with a second look He said
"I freely all forgive
This blood is for your ransom paid
I died that you might live"
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and gladly took my place
Thus while His death my sin displays
For all the world to view
Such is the mystery of grace
It seals my pardon too
With pleasing grief and mournful joy
My spirit now is filled
That I should such a life destroy
Yet live by Him I killed
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and gladly took my place
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and gladly took my place
I think you've complicated the definition of what God is. He does whatever He wills. There no boundaries that He has to follow. Love, Justice and Holiness are boundaries you set on Him.
By definition God is boundless. Nothing can stop Him doing as He pleases. For example if He were to decide right now that all of existence was worthless and required deletion, He could do it and nothing could stop Him, hold Him accountable or judge him for it.
He is the end-all-be-all.
I do not place limits on His will. For example, even if I were a murdering rapist, the moment of my judgement I am at His mercy just the same as if I were the holiest man on earth. It is entirely up to Him.
The idea that God needed to sacrifice to forgive us cancels out, by definition, Him being God.
Because IF a sacrifice was required, then He is NOT God. I do not consider the modern Christian description of God and Jesus to be anything other than nonsense made up by several different influential people way after Jesus' death.
Paul, Constantine, Council of Nicea, Vatican, British Kings, The Roman Empire and on and on.
God is limitless. I am completely at His mercy and He is not bound by anything to forgive me IF He wills it.
What is our purpose on earth? What happens when we die?
You mentioned that God will judge you based on our deeds but you also claim God has no standards. How do you know how you are to live? Do you believe that God embodies everything evil as well as good?
Our purpose on Earth is to live clean lives and follow God's rules to the best of our abilities. To live a life worthy of paradise. To praise God for our blessings and our hardships (which are blessings in disguise).
The rules set for us by God were around before Christ's appearance on earth, There are 10 fundamentals. Several sects of modern Christianity break idol worship on a daily basis.
I also never wrote God has no standards. I wrote that his omnipotence is boundless. Meaning that He and He alone can judge each individual based on their deeds and their intentions and decide what He wants to do.
See, what you're not comprehending is what omnipotence means.
Say you die a non-triniatarion Christian who does not believe in the requirement for a sacrifice yet you lived a generally good life and asked for forgiveness through prayer and your intentions were honest.
At the moment of death, it is solely up to God what happens to you.
I don't live or believe in the nonsense of bounds on God. He doesn't answer to me or the churches version of what the ticket to paradise is. I also don't believe in saints or praying to anything or anyone other than the Father. That's it.
Judgment is entirely up to Him.
A agree with most of this and I don't believe in the saints and all that either. I do believe that God can determine what He wants to do but I also believe in the promise of God who gave us the promise of eternal life if we believe and accept His Love.