RE: Why blood sacrifice?
July 12, 2013 at 3:00 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2013 at 3:13 am by evenheathen.)
Hmmm... Methinks you should read up on your ancient pagan religions. After all, they are what Judaism and subsequently christianity stemmed from.
Ancient gods required sacrifices, they weren't as easy going as Jesus' dad.
In fact, it's in the OT that the smell of burnt offerings were pleasing to YWVH. But only the purest and/or fattest of the crop would do to please the insatiable god of the jews. Just like the other gods worshiped beside him in the ancient polytheistic culture that was early judaism before YWVH was adopted as the one "true" god.
(Edit: for clarity.
As I've heard it explained before (and keep in mind, I'm no scholar), the original text from the ten commandments stating "you will have no other gods before me" wasn't stating that YWVH was the only god, only that he was to be worshiped above all others. So even the original texts making up the OT didn't discount the idea of other gods existing. Ancient Jews were most definitely polytheistic.)
So the blood sacrifice of jesus is the last necessary offering to him to appease him of our sinfulness. Since he was the "one true lamb", we can all rest assured our place in blissful eternity so long as we believe in all that bullshit.
Ancient gods required sacrifices, they weren't as easy going as Jesus' dad.
In fact, it's in the OT that the smell of burnt offerings were pleasing to YWVH. But only the purest and/or fattest of the crop would do to please the insatiable god of the jews. Just like the other gods worshiped beside him in the ancient polytheistic culture that was early judaism before YWVH was adopted as the one "true" god.
(Edit: for clarity.
As I've heard it explained before (and keep in mind, I'm no scholar), the original text from the ten commandments stating "you will have no other gods before me" wasn't stating that YWVH was the only god, only that he was to be worshiped above all others. So even the original texts making up the OT didn't discount the idea of other gods existing. Ancient Jews were most definitely polytheistic.)
So the blood sacrifice of jesus is the last necessary offering to him to appease him of our sinfulness. Since he was the "one true lamb", we can all rest assured our place in blissful eternity so long as we believe in all that bullshit.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret is as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
