Zelensky: "After this war Ukraine will be a great Israel"
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Was Jesus human? Did God not require that he be sacrificed as a lamb to redeem mankind's sins? As a Christian I could never understand God's need for blood sacrifice be it from an innocent person or animal. This requirement for death and the shedding of innocent blood always bothered me. Yes, the bible says the wages of sin are death but it also says we are all sinners. So God sets up a situation where he makes man incapable of fully resisting sin then requires death as the result of him sinning. Yes, faith has many mysteries but this is the one most vexing to me.
This is well said.
Well said. Simple and true.
So God created people with the ability to disobey, and punishes them for using their God given abilities?
You aren’t tortured for eternity for jumping.
The thing is, no one ever defies gravity. Whether they're jumping or flying or weightless in space, they would always be obeying the laws of gravity that are a constant in the universe.
This is one of the hardest for me also but I understand it more now. Those sacrifices of the old testament -there were different types,-were mostly eaten by the priests and their families. The meat and hides did not go to waste.
Each sacrifice was a personal cost as meat and grain were worked for, animals were raised and cared for. No sacrifice was a light thing.
Sin does cause death-look around us now and we can see the results. Plus each ritual and sacrifice was.to point us toward salvation and Jesus and the price He paid for us. The meaning of that price is profound.
If one understands who we really are, and the true facts of why we are in this flesh age, then everything becomes clearer. The wages of sin is death of the soul and the wages of insurrection is death to all involved. If God is a just God, this price had to be paid. But He loves His children. Jesus paid that price..
Q said something that the Bible alludes to many times-only at the precipice and about waking people up to the evil. So basically we needed to see what evil is and what evil does, and the price paid for that evil. Otherwise evil can never be truly abolished.
People forget that words are a symbol that we use to represent reality, not the actual reality itself. Everybody forgets this especially when it comes to religious matters. Anyway that you describe God, or describe the ultimate nature of the reality we experience falls flat, because it is simply a symbol rather than the actual reality. To take religious texts absolutely 100% seriously is to forget the fact that words are a symbol. Personally I like the example of equating these symbols to a finger pointing at the moon, but instead of looking up and seeing the actual moon, you suck the finger pointing to it, aka you put the words on a pedestal and revere the words all the while forgetting words are a symbol, not the actual reality itself. Another example of being bamboozled by words is the climate change crowd, if the weather deviates from how it is "supposed to be" during a certain "season", then it represents something bad that needs to be somehow changed. Yet once again they are forgetting that in reality there are no "seasons" it is once again, a symbol, sure we can get extremely convincing asserting that seasons are real, but in the end its still just words. This isn't saying that God doesn't exist, or that X religion is true while X religion isn't, it is simply pointing out that words are a symbol, no matter how much we prostrate ourselves before the written word, it will always just be words, and their "authority" will always come from you (you in a broad sense) who believes the word.
Mainly my point is this: don't get so caught up in the words of religious texts, whether it's the Bible, Quran, Upanishads, etc. The words all point to actual reality, an experience, and most people tend to focus 100% on the words, the symbol, rather than the reality these words point to. Words, no matter who speaks them, no matter who writes them, no matter how convincing they are, no matter how many people believe them, will always just be words.