(July 9, 2013 at 10:16 am)Dionysius Wrote:Quote:Why does blood sacrifice make anything better?
I read the first view pages and found just as I have elsewhere an inability to answer a question that is foundational to the tradition. I often asked why was it necessary for Jesus to be crucified? How were men saved? The answer invariably was, you are saved from God's wrath. To which just opens a string of question begging.
Where does Jesus say that His sacrafice saves us from God's wrath?
(July 9, 2013 at 10:16 am)Dionysius Wrote: Let us give thanks and the proferring of gifts to one another that Jesus did use a metaphor that is entirely absurd, that is devoid of noticeable meaning for if he had made it more rational then it wouldn't be as easy to ridicule re-educate the underdeveloped.
Jesus did say that: "He & the Father were the same".
So, maybe God Himself paid the price for sin?
But alas, that for the "unbeliever" means nothing either.
Quis ut Deus?