How to make sense of the differences in the Bible

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

I'll dig through the gravy and get right to the meat.

The single most essential element of Christian belief is in believing in and accepting human sacrifice. Jesus Christ was a human being. He was killed. His death atones for the sins of Christians.

The rite of Holy Communion is symbolic cannibalism. A wafer is recognized as the body of a human being, and passed around to be eaten. It's washed down with juice that is recognized as human blood.

Does the current Todd care to discuss?

well the only christian sect that i know that follows a flesh and blood belief of the bread and wine i the Roman catholics and that wild wacky transubstansiation sacrament.

its not his death that atones but his blood, the final passover lamb

most protestants don't think that they are actually eating flesh and blood they are identifing with the suffering of jesus. at the last supper most protestants realize that jesus wasn't ripping up pieces of him self or slashing his wrist and serving his blood.

 

[phrodeau]

its not his death that atones but his blood, the final passover lamb

Which sect does this belief represent? Biblical sacrificial offerings are always killed, not bled.

I find the notion of such sacrifice too barbaric to accept within a theology. Can it be that humans are more civilized than God?

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

yes biblical sacrifices were kiled but it was the blood that did the woork, exodus passover blood on the door posts and jam signaled the death angel to go over.

If you can await a while I will be posting a thread to explain it a bit further in more detail. Its just goin g to take me a while to type it al up from long hand

 

[phrodeau]

PM me when you do. I'm off to work.

 

[Wolf_Song]

( bump for reading this thread at a more convenient time )

 

[phrodeau]

Hmmm... I never saw that new thread or got a PM, come to mention it.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Hmmm... I never saw that new thread or got a PM, come to mention it.

Sorry I never got around to starting that, I sort of got discouraged about posting