Some years ago, I made friends with a group of people who were Wiccans.   I went to a few of their sabbats, and they told me about their beliefs.

      They believed in "the rule of three," which means that whatever you do comes back to you times three.   If you help someone in need, the universe somehow pays you back threefold.   If you hurt somebody, the universe pays you back the same way (times three).

      I had to ask them: Says who?   Why is it threefold, and not fourfold?   Or why not twofold?

      Nobody could tell me.   There is no reference book for Wicca.   They don't have a Bible.

      And that led me to have a similar question about Christianity.

      There is an old hymn called "Jesus Paid It All."   The idea is that sins committed by mankind have to be paid for somehow.   Christians will tell you that when Jesus died, he paid the price that God requires for all of the sins ever committed, the sins that happened before he was crucified and all the sins that were committed after he was crucified.

      My question is: Who decided that that one event of suffering was enough?   Jesus was crucified only once; why didn't God require that he be crucified 11 times?   Or 500 times?

      And maybe the better question is: Why couldn't God have just forgiven the sin without demanding that anybody suffer or be tortured?

      He's God.   He makes all the rules.