(September 24, 2014 at 3:39 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Isn't the only reason we 'need' the sacrifice because the guy making the sacrifice tells us that we need the sacrifice?
More like his death was spun into a sacrifice because the reality of the execution was too squalid, awful, and humiliating for his followers to bear. It had to mean something. It just had to!