Tag: Sacrifice

• Rethinking Jesus (13) A Saviour from Sin?

  Jesus earliest followers most likely believed that he was the promised Jewish Messiah, who would become the king of a restored Israel after the imminent, cataclysmic arrival of the earthly Kingdom of God. Let’s try, then, to grasp their traumatic shock and potential despair, when he was arrested, cruelly humiliated, and crucified. That was the […]

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  25th Feb 2022

  Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Religion

  Blood, Forgivness, Jesus, Messiah, Punishment, Sacrifice, Saviour, Sin

• Abraham and Child Sacrifice

  In Genesis 22, there’s a disturbing story about God ordering Abraham to sacrifice his son. A ram is provided as a substitute, but only at the last possible moment. As readers we’re told that, “God tested Abraham“, but the man himself is given no such explanation, and God rubs salt into the wound by reminding […]

  calgacus83

  26th May 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Old Testament, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

  Abraham, Genesis, God, Kierkegaard, Plato, Sacrifice