RE: One question for Christians
June 28, 2013 at 11:54 am
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2013 at 12:26 pm by fr0d0.)
(June 28, 2013 at 7:49 am)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Try me.
Tell me what reason there possibly can be that a blood sacrifice would be needed to appease god.
Now that's funny
(June 28, 2013 at 8:31 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: In fairness, I already expect that there can be no good answer
Symbolically, a blood sacrifice is necessary to end a tradition of blood sacrifice is it not? That was the point of the sacrifice.
I've got to expand because I like the subject... :p
Do you accept that humans are not perfect? Then you accept we have reason to feel guilty at some point, if we face up to our limitations.
People found that giving something they prized felt like they were redressing a balance. Far better to be charitable than throw it away, but they thought payment to god/s weren't to be made to any man. Debt is owed to the debtor. Personal debts of imperfection are owed to whatever is perceived as perfect.
We strive to overcome our imperfection.
Some philosophies suggest we should learn to be happy with our imperfection. This is a model of an unjust world where there is reduced reason to act fairly. It's easy to see how humans thought sacrifice a better model.
