Kirata
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ORIGINAL: bounty44 the latter part of your post kirata is contingent, according to conservative theology, on john 3:16. Except that John 3:16 says "gave" -- not "killed," nor "sacrificed," nor "gave to be sacrificed" -- and Jesus himself, who speaks for his Father "as my Father hath taught me" (John 8:28) says twice in Matthew: "I will have mercy and not sacrifice," echoing Hosea 6:6, "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice"; Psalm 51:16, "For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering"; Jeremiah 7:22-23, "For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices"; and Micah 6:6-8, "Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" Of course, nobody listened then, so why would they now? There's even a group in Israel that wants to rebuild the Temple and reinstitute blood sacrifices. But the Bible is a library, not a book, and the God of the OT appears to be a case of multiple personality disorder because two very different deities from different textual sources ("E" and "J") were combined in the creation of the Pentateuch, a fact nowhere more obvious than in the first and second chapters of Genesis, and trying to "harmonize" them has required theological contortions that would be the envy of a circus performer. There is nothing more antithetical to the teachings of Christ than killing anything or anybody as an atonement for sin. K.
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