RE: Sin Eater
August 9, 2014 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2014 at 6:25 pm by ShaMan.)
(August 8, 2014 at 10:59 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:Archetypal images apparently elude you.(August 8, 2014 at 3:59 pm)ShaMan Wrote: UmmmmSo to follow, Christians summon Jesus to eat bread off a dead person and take the coins underneath as payment to have our sins transferred to him. Do you honestly believe the Bible teaches this? Me paying to have my sins transferred to someone else is not at the heart (root) of the Christian gospel.your Jesus was a "Sin Eater". While it may not be "practiced" in Christianity today, it is most certainly at the heart (root) of the Christian gospel... The sins of one being transferred to another for the explicit purpose of cleansing the former of said "sins".
(August 8, 2014 at 3:59 pm)ShaMan Wrote: The sins of one being transferred to another for the explicit purpose of cleansing the former of said "sins".It's the same concept (belief), practiced in another way.