(October 20, 2023 at 7:27 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Legalism and the relative value of a sacrificial victim to the hoped for end of the magic spell. Basically, god tied his own nuts into knots and this is what it looks like when one of his dictates needs to be clawed back or modified. Killing any old human being couldn't break the curse, and the curse was a law of the universe -binding to all of the cosmos as every one of gods utterances is, even to god.
Jesus knew he was antagonizing the Powers That Be, but he didn't think God would let them go so far as to actually crucify him. He thought God would step in at the last moment and take direct control of human history. Didn't work out that way. Embarrassing to his followers. Paul came in a few years later with his rebranding campaign and we got the sacrifice narrative.
