RE: Cain and Abel: Explanation Please. Pretty Pretty Please!
September 4, 2014 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2014 at 3:38 pm by C4RM5.)
(September 4, 2014 at 3:35 pm)Tobie Wrote:God already erased humanity and all life except those on the ark. It is an act of mercy and love that God sent his son to die for are sins not a scrapegoat.(September 4, 2014 at 3:27 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: It is a recurring theme throught the Bible that only blood shed can pay for sin and Jesus' death is the ultimate sacrafice the Bible is leading up to. Jesus' death paid for are sin and that is why christians do not sacrafice animals, we just look to the cross. "For God so loved the world he gave his one and only Son that who so ever believes in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life" John 3 16
Blood sacrifice is a remnant from before the ret-con of all the other gods of the Canaanite pantheon. There is a tradition of it in the bible, but it does not explain why, according to your mythology, an all-powerful being would resort to sending down his son to act as a scapegoat for the sins of humanity, rather than just erasing them in the first place.
