You’ll need to put some meat on the bones of that final analogy. In what context could you sacrifice yourself for you Loved one’s? Like, throwing yourself in front of a hail of bullets that were otherwise destined for them?
In that case, no you wouldn’t be sacrificing yourself to a god.
However, the Jesus story is fundamentally not that.
Christ doesn’t sacrifice HIMSELF at all. His sacrifice is ordained by his father. Remember, ‘for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son’ and ‘Father, father, why have you forsaken me’ and
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Here, you can see that Jesus was given as a sacrifice TO God.
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Here, you can see that he was a sacrifice FROM god.
So, God gives his son as a sacrifice to himself for the forgiveness of the world’s sins.
Why not just forgive the sins directly?
Christianity is dumb my man. The mental gymnastics you need to go through to make this retarded concept work is astonishing. And yet, you will impute all manner of nonsense reasoning to do so.
Would you sacrifice your own son to yourself to forgive the sins of your nieces and nephews when it is solely in your gift to forgive anyway? Of course you wouldn’t as that would be insane.
You’ll need to put some meat on the bones of that final analogy. In what context could you sacrifice yourself for you Loved one’s? Like, throwing yourself in front of a hail of bullets that were otherwise destined for them?
In that case, no you wouldn’t be sacrificing yourself to a god.
However, the Jesus story is fundamentally not that.
Christ doesn’t sacrifice HIMSELF at all. His sacrifice is ordained by his father. Remember, ‘for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son’ and ‘Father, father, why have you forsaken me’ and
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Here, you can see that Jesus was given as a sacrifice TO God.
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Here, you can see that he was a sacrifice FROM god.
So, God gives his son as a sacrifice to himself for the forgiveness of the world’s sins.
Why not just forgive the sins directly?
Christianity is dumb my man. The mental gymnastics you need to go through to make this retarded concept work is astonishing. And yet, you will impute all manner of nonsense reasoning to do so.
Would you sacrifice your own son to yourself to forgive the sins of your nieces and nephews when it is solely in your gift to forgive anyway? Of course you wouldn’t as that would be insane.