RE: What Major Intellectual Issue Most Keeps You From Accepting The Christian Narrative?
February 23, 2018 at 6:02 pm
(February 23, 2018 at 5:58 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(February 23, 2018 at 5:42 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Jesus says he takes the world's sins on himself so that we may be saved. That's scapegoating. Putting your sins on someone else so you can avoid the punishment.
Scapegoating is assigning blame to one that's innocent, the bible makes it clear that Jesus Christ is blameless, but he of his own choosing accepted the penalty of sin which was death, no one assigned to or accused him of any sin, he could have chosen not to do it, THAT is not scapegoating.
His death was needed in order for us to live, just like the food you eat needs to die in order for you to live.
Read Leviticus 16, the origin of the term scapegoat. A priest symbolically lays the peoples' sins upon it and then sends it away. Replace priest with god and the goat with Jesus and it's the same story.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
