I think it’s very difficult—or impossible—intellectually to characterize the Lord Jesus Christ while ignoring the full meaning of his sacrifice.
Christ the incorruptible subjected himself to the total burden of all sin when he died on the cross. So that we can have the option of being saved from God’s wrath.
How can we call it just to forgive those who reject Christ? Injustice cannot be justice.
The honest man desires to believe that which is true. We all sort of operate on the assumption that we desire to believe the truth. But as Sir Francis Bacon once said, we prefer to believe that which we prefer to be true.
The God of the Bible is either a true proposition or an untrue proposition. As Dostoyevsky pointed out: if there is no God, everything is permissible. The temptation to want to be our own master is extremely powerful—we live in a deceptive garden of worldly pleasures.
It seems Freud never realized wish fulfillment applies equally to nonbelievers.