(May 21, 2013 at 2:03 pm)Gabriel Syme Wrote: His torture, suffering and death were his sacrifice.
The curious thing is... he sacrificed a human life. That was the sacrifice. He gave his (human) body and blood. And if that's all it was, then he could simply have been taken in his sleep. Or slipped on a wet stone and cracked his skull open. Or just suffered a god-inspired massive heart attack. The torture and suffering were just so that Mel Gibson could turn it into a gore-fest a couple of thousand years later.
If the torture and suffering somehow played into it, then he interrupted his infinitely long life as the almighty god for a few hours, then resumed his infinitely long life as the almighty god afterwards. Meanwhile, the penalty for not accepting this minor interruption in an eternity of godhood is to spend the rest of FOREVER being tortured. Makes sense.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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