(July 26, 2020 at 2:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Your argument, and that of many Christians, presumes that Jesus was innocent (or sinless). A cursory reading of the NT shows that this isn’t the case.
One could argue that Jesus more or less sacrificed himself as opposed to being used as a scapegoat. Since he was willing to die, the case that he was ‘punished’ is rather weak. If a father sacrifices himself to save his childrens’ lives, no one would describe it as a punishment.
*removes his Devil’s Advocate hat*
Boru
I would love to hear your interpretation on the sinfulness of Jesus and citing of scriptures.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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