(January 11, 2015 at 4:53 pm)Lek Wrote: Read post #80 for my thoughts on this. He is the only way.
Your thoughts are not scripture, you either believe the scripture or you don’t, you don’t get to change it because you don’t like it.
Quote:It’s not an extension of any tradition. It's about us screwing up and God making it right for us. That's the message of the bible, which is what christians follow.
Yes, it is the extension of tradition from long before Chrsitianity, it is a belief co-opted and woven into the dogma. Read the history for scapegoating, here are a few links to make it easy:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topi.../scapegoat
and
http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/scapegoating and
“Ancient Syria:
A concept superficially similar to the biblical scapegoat is attested in two ritual texts in archives at Ebla of the 24th century BC. They were connected with ritual purification on the occasion of the king's wedding. In them, a she-goat with a silver bracelet hung from her neck was driven forth into the wasteland of "Alini"; "we" in the report of the ritual involves the whole community. Such “elimination rites", in which an animal, without confession of sins, is the vehicle of evils (not sins) that are chased from the community are widely attested in the Ancient Near East.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
Quote:We take responsibility for our own actions.
Non sequitor
"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's." - Mark Twain in Eruption
