RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 19, 2020 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2020 at 5:10 pm by Greatest I am.)
(August 16, 2020 at 10:36 am)Vicki Q Wrote: Given the detail that Paul goes into to show that Jesus' death and resurrection is completely in line with the OT narrative, I can't agree. Jesus was very clear also that this process is the fulfilment of the Torah. The Gospel writers also are careful in their commentary to show continuity with the OT story. Could you unpack your reasoning?
Quote:The Torah is just commentary to the Jewish saying of Do unto others.
To read it literally is not what Jews do.
Nowhere in scriptures is it written that a god can die. If Jesus did not stay dead, there was no sacrifice.
The reasoning I use is moral reasoning and scapegoating is a full fledged immoral practice.
If you wish to believe that Jesus would be such an immoral prick as to ask us to do the wrong thing, I think you are wrong.
Not that Jesus ever existed.
Regards
DL
(August 18, 2020 at 11:25 am)Eleven Wrote: So much of the Bible is to not be taken literally that none of it should.
I see a few bits that I can use literally, but agree in principle.
Regards
DL
