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Robbie

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Re: An Abraham moment!
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2017, 06:26:36 PM »
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The point of the story is that the God of the Hebrews was forbidding human sacrifice from then on.

Yes he was & it was the first time that God had truly revealed himself to the Israelites.
Before I went to bed last night I came across the following and thought of this thread:-

http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/profile-8203-dr-kenneth-watwood-retired-doctor/story-28933112-detail/story.html

especially the bit subtitled TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH AND WHAT INSPIRED.....
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Re: An Abraham moment!
« Reply #26 on: August 10, 2017, 07:43:05 PM »
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The point of the story is that the God of the Hebrews was forbidding human sacrifice from then on.
Except for Jesus.
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Re: An Abraham moment!
« Reply #27 on: August 10, 2017, 07:48:58 PM »
Yes he was & it was the first time that God had truly revealed himself to the Israelites. Before I went to bed last night I came across the following and thought of this thread:- http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/profile-8203-dr-kenneth-watwood-retired-doctor/story-28933112-detail/story.html especially the bit subtitled TELL US ABOUT YOUR CHRISTIAN FAITH AND WHAT INSPIRED.....
Glad someone put this on Youtube - Helen Shapiro (Messianic Jew) singing Michael Card's classic "God wil provide a lamb" Better than spouting theology..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r47dvtFI4I
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Re: An Abraham moment!
« Reply #28 on: August 14, 2017, 04:13:45 PM »
Except for Jesus.

And Jephtha's daughter.

It is an important point, I think (and I made it earlier). Many of the OT prophets were at odds with the conception of sacrifice of actual entities, human or animal. But the Pauline and Johannine aspects of Christianity have simply reinstated the early idea of human sacrifice in the person of Jesus, promoting the idea that believing in Christ's supposed act cancels out sin and makes us 'right with God'. The huge array of interpretations about how this is supposed to work are indeed mystifying, and truly nonsensical in the light of Trinitarian doctrine (which is incomprehensible in itself).
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