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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
How is this a straw man? You have very clearly said that the blood of the covenant is an unholy thing, it is not "Godly". You have said that the animal sacrifices by the Jews are an embarrassment and that Jesus Human sacrifice is unholy. That is the "blood of the covenant". You said any deity that respects that blood "is an invention of man" and that if they were real deities they would be against the sacrifice.
Not Godly is by definition "unholy".
So then your post makes it very clear that you consider the blood of the covenant an unholy thing. Or did I misunderstand?
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There is power, power, wonder-working power
In the blood of the Lamb
There is power, power, wonder-working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb…
I sang that growing up. Even as a kid I was repulsed by it. It was a great tune, but POWER IN THE BLOOD? Why? How awful!
So there's the blood of the beasts (OT), and blood of the Lamb (NT). Obviously they believed in blood sacrifices in the OT, and that was carried over into the NT.
But actually they were both carryovers from the ancient early days of man, when they sacrificed humans to a deity, thinking it would win favor ; like the Aztecs that believed daily human sacrifices were necessary for the sun to rise in the morning. In other words, a superstition.
You as a scientist surely know this.
Brother Ohio, over yonder on the hermeneutics thread, standing on the Bible stated :
Forgiveness of sins demands the shedding of blood.
To me that sounds like what a violent alcoholic that beats his wife and kids every night would say. Not something coming from a God.
I remember saying something like, I don't like God depicted as a beast. Any God requiring blood to forgive is just that kind of beast.
That God is not the real God. That's a fake God. A invention of man, carrying it over from the Stone age, and Bronze age, into the Iron age. Ages we're long past. Or should be.