The Trinity Explained

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Christ's sacrifice was for humanity; through His sacrifice and actions, He sent a message to humanity of God's love and devotion. He was setting an example by which to live so as to bring oneself closer to God's grace and love. Those who learned from that sacrifice were who the sacrifice was for; those who did not learn from the sacrifice were unaccepting of God in the first place, and remained(or remain to this day) that way. The sacrifice was not to appease God's wrath towards sin; it was to relieve people of their sin, via learning from the sacrifice and message, so that they would not condemn themselves to a life seperated from God.

It was an act of love and tolerance, is that so hard to understand?

When you sacrifice an animal, You lose the use of the animal. The use of animal does not come back to you when the formality is complete. The price you pay for the "sacrifice" entails a real sacrifice.

When you brandy about Jesus' supposed "sacrifices", if you at all concern yourself with even partial intellectual integrity, then you must decide whether you believe the sacrafice part, or the trinity, resurrection and ascension part, for they are mutually exclusive.

If you believe the sacrifice part, then what he gave up he could not reclaim. He is gone, dead and decomposed. His sacrifice is perhaps noble in a certain mentally deranged way, but many others in history have made similar sacrifices for sounder reasons, only they did not suffer such extravagant and unscrupulous post mortem hype.

If you believe the divine part, and think him resurrected, and the holy trinity not reduced to holy binity by way of the supposed sacrifice, then where is the sacrifice?

So you are right. It is apples and oranges. Animal sacrifice, however repellent to a civilized man, is in most cases a genuine sacrifice. The "sacrifice" of Jesus is just a tale about a protagonist having it both ways, and so shabbily constructed by a committee of maggot brained fanatics that 2000 years of fervent obfuscation still could not disguise the narrative deceit and doublespeak.