Solarwave,
The problem I see with your idea (that God shifted his paradigm) is that God is timeless so there should be no reason to change his interactions with us. How does it make sense that God needed to kill anyone... ever? How does it make sense to avoid the need of killing people by killing himself to appease himself?
Yes, it used to make sense to me too; before Christ came to die for our sins we didn't have the holy spirit as a guide so we needed a giant body of laws to govern our behavior and we needed to destroy stuff for sacrifices to wash our sins away. We needed to use our intellect to understand right from wrong but once Jesus died for us he wrote a new contact and bridged the gap so that we would be in touch with the holy spirit who would guide us directly and since he was the greatest sacrifice, we didn't need to sacrifice anymore. Doesn't that sound nice?
The question I never asked was why would something as powerful as God need any of these demonstrations of obedience? It makes much more sense to realize that PEOPLE think in terms of balancing things by trading value for value and subjecting themselves to parents first then rulers when they get older, so the idea of sacrificing has more to do with relieving guilt and has nothing to do with God.
Rhizo
The problem I see with your idea (that God shifted his paradigm) is that God is timeless so there should be no reason to change his interactions with us. How does it make sense that God needed to kill anyone... ever? How does it make sense to avoid the need of killing people by killing himself to appease himself?
Yes, it used to make sense to me too; before Christ came to die for our sins we didn't have the holy spirit as a guide so we needed a giant body of laws to govern our behavior and we needed to destroy stuff for sacrifices to wash our sins away. We needed to use our intellect to understand right from wrong but once Jesus died for us he wrote a new contact and bridged the gap so that we would be in touch with the holy spirit who would guide us directly and since he was the greatest sacrifice, we didn't need to sacrifice anymore. Doesn't that sound nice?
The question I never asked was why would something as powerful as God need any of these demonstrations of obedience? It makes much more sense to realize that PEOPLE think in terms of balancing things by trading value for value and subjecting themselves to parents first then rulers when they get older, so the idea of sacrificing has more to do with relieving guilt and has nothing to do with God.
Rhizo
