(March 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm)robvalue Wrote: It is absolutely retarded, and I don't know how anyone even pretends to understand it let alone "appreciate" it.
I remember hearing about his death originally being about stopping animal sacrifices. The story got distorted from that point I think? He certainly wasn't meant to be God incarnate first time around. I'm pretty sure that was a later insertion.
Is there a chance that even the crucifixion wasn't the original death method? Or is it accepted that the story always contained that part?
That's how I understood it, he died to fulfill sacrificial laws. Which is why sin would still exist, now we just have to say "I'm sorry" instead of cutting off the head of chicken to atone for our sins. The whole thing is absurd.
