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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
This does not appear to me to answer much less even respond to my questions.
You reiterated this concept of "superstitious religion" so please answer my questions:
You are saying that sacrifice was uncivilized and superstitious.
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Oh heck, I thought I might get away with ZNPing you back. But okay.
Yes, I'm saying the sacrifice of humans or animals is uncivilized and superstition. Moreover, I'll go even further and say, that there are deities, or a deity, that propitiates because of it is the invention of man. Those deities don't exist. Okay, they might exist, but they don't care if I burn an animal. If they were any kind of real deity they'd be against it.
Just as God should have been against the sacrifice of His son. He could find other ways to forgive us. He's God for-gosh-sakes. Surely if He had to, He could invent a new kinder more humane way.
Plus, there's hints enough in the gospels that Jesus thought God would intervene and setup His Kingdom on earth : "Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven" ; The disciples will judge over the 12 tribes ; "there be some standing here" ; "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me." As the story goes, He didn't.
If God is God, and he has at least human mores, He would never allow such a thing as human sacrifice. He didn't in the Old Testament.
And I would think, I would hope, we're long past all that. The Jews restoring animal sacrifice should embarrass them. It will most everyone else, except the Santeria or some other crazy superstitious religion.
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Originally Posted by ZNP
If I have understood that correctly then I have a whole host of other questions that I still don't understand.
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Z : 1. What is the purpose of life other than not dying?
Oh not that question!
Z : 2. How can you have faith, hope and love without the expression of these?
I don't know I just do.
Z : 3. Without faith, hope and love -- how can we have art?
Those must have existed 75,000 yrs ago. They just found archaeological evidence of art going back that far.
Z : of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Strawman.