RE: Was Jesus' sacrifice really a sacrifice at all?
October 25, 2010 at 7:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2010 at 8:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 25, 2010 at 7:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I think he's playing possum, Chuck.
The kid won't give up his sky daddy that easily.
Deadpan is all he is going to get if he insist on attaching infinitely profound meaning to one unexceptionally event, and no comparable meaning to thousands other analogous events.
The crucification of Jesus is unremarkable next to the crucification of any of the thousands of people whom the Romans saw fit to kill in this way as matter of policy, law, or expedience. It is also unremarkable next to the crucifixtion of the thousands of people whom the Phoenicians, Carthagenians, Ilyrians and Etruscans saw fit to crucify over many centuries prior to Rome. It is also no different form the death of thousands of people crucified in Fuedal Japan for various offenses.
It's just a totally unremarkable example of a cruel, but very common form of execution practiced widely throughout the ages. Considering how many crucifixions there must have been around the world throughout the ages, simple statistics would insist that there must of been thousands of people from amongst all the victims of crucifixion who ended up on the cross because they were willing to sacrafice their lives for something. Those people sacrificed exactly as much as Jesus did.
