I have always had a problem with this theory of Jesus dying so that we may live. The whole concept that ‘God’ had to do a blood sacrifice of his son in order to save humanity seems contrived?
I have always understood the God to be omnipotent and in control of all that is, was and will be. The idea that this Omnipotent God had to sacrifice his son for humanity makes me wonder exactly who or what required this of The God???
What rule required this blood sacrifice from a God that had omnipotence over everything?
Are you suggesting that this God was just like Moloch or Baal? That this God required child sacrifices as they did? Or that another Omnipotent being greater than God made this a necessary condition for the saving of Humanity?
And this is the same God of Moses and Jacob? The one that declares that there are no other Gods except God. That we should not take the likeness of creation and make it or him a partner with God (just referring to the first 2 commandments)??
I am truely lost with all of the machinations of Athanasius’ Creed? (Oh yea after the Nicaean Debacle of 325 it was ever after referred to as the Nicaean Creed) Arius seemed to have a better handle on things but they decided to brand him an apostate shed some more blood (numbered in the thousands) on that account also. I am sure this God…and his Son…really enjoyed that blood sacrifice in their name.
And the ritual of drinking of the Blood of Jesus and the Eating of his body sure sounds like a tendency to Pagan Cannibalism to me also.
Don’t misjudge me…I am a true believer in the God of Moses and Jacub….and accept the Son of Mariam as the Messiah to the children of Israel…the rest of it though…just does not fit.