Posted by SLS on May 12, 2008, at 21:56:22
In reply to Re: Sin, posted by Sigismund on May 12, 2008, at 21:34:12
> But I have never understood how the sacrifice is, so to speak, transferrable.
Very interesting point. I never thought of it that way.
> Why should God find it easier to forgive us because some people strung His Son up?
Again, very interesting point. Like any good/bad religion, I'm sure there is an explanation to be given by Christianity. I think the Trinity operates here.
> So I tell myself that it is all metaphor.
It would have been interesting to sit in on a discussion regarding the Torah when all that it was, was passed on from generation to generation through an oral tradition. It is stunning to realize the the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the earliest written Torahs, was produced just barely before the time of Jesus. Was there a time when the stories in the Old Testament were considered metaphors or allegories? Was it ever taught that way in the oral tradition I wonder?
- Scott
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