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So, why was The Christ necessary at all?

The straightforward answer is that Christ was the right tool for the job.

If Yahweh could shape reality just by saying things and they became real, couldn’t he just say “I forgive you” and “Original Sin” would be forgiven?

That is a thing Jesus repeated ad nauseam in his ministries. And since he's an Avatar of God, this is exactly what happened.

So either Yahweh isn’t all powerful and there is some greater power to which he is subservient; or, Yahweh just wanted to dip his dick in an unwilling woman to create his son/self to torture to death.

This is an age-old paradox of language. "Can God create a bolder so heavy that he cannot lift it? Either way, he must not be All Powerful!"

But it limits the way we look at the world to an entirely and superficially magical one. The idea of God as a Wizard in a big crooked hat who says strange words and waves hands and makes a thing happen.

Consider... This paradox is solved without any magical powers. A man with a chisel and a large lump of stone can create a bolder too big for him to lift my main strength. But then that same man can build a lever/pull system to lift said bolder. He has done both! Therefore man is All-Powerful!

God's favored discipline agreed to bare a child. And that child agreed to martyr himself in order to bring about a Christian faith. And that faith exists to bring light and hope and joy to the world. And its easy enough to find a Christian who can attest to that sense of hopefulness through their faithfulness. A seed planted 2000 years ago gives birth to a forest. Feels miraculous to me.

That gets to the problem with these logical angles of attack on a religious belief. They've all been done to death for a thousand years and more. And there are rhetorical rebuttals for any smug one-liner either side can bring to the table. But you can't logic someone out of a view they didn't logic themselves into. The idea of Jesus as a spiritual martyr who provides relief for your guilt and inner turmoil isn't something you can refute casually. Its like arguing with a homopath over the effectiveness of microdosing or with a yogi over the spiritual benefits of meditation.

At the end of the day, all you're saying is "This shouldn't make you feel better!" And all they need to refute you is "Ah, but it does."