(January 5, 2012 at 2:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: Still doesn't make sense, Frodo. What about the animals? They were just "killed" by humans. So was Jesus.
I eat animals most days. that isn't anything to do with sacrufice. Neither was the killing of Jesus to any of the humans present. Sacrifices of any kind are a payment.... you offer the payment so that you might get let off the debt. If no one is doing any offerring then 'sacrifice' doesn't factor.
(January 5, 2012 at 2:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: If god made the sacrifice to cleanse people of sin (or whatever) how is that a sacrifice? In fact, it is not really a sacrifice at all, given that the rest of him just went back to heaven. Without the human sacrifice aspect of it, it's a shitty story with more plot holes than Twilight.
You seem now to be diversifying into ridicule. But just in case you're serious, I'll try to help again.
God made the sacrifice because only he could. Only he can make such a far reaching gesture that fully covers every eventuality. The perfect insurance policy. That's how you get to claim the ultimate pay back.
The triune God didn't sacrifice the triune God, he sacrificed an aspect of himself designed specifically for this purpose. Jesus doesn't carry on minus the storyline. It's inherant to his character that only needed to play out that story once and be done with it.
