Possibly Acceptable Child Sacrifice
|
|
I just published a new short article that asks, “If a person thinks that Jesus’ sacrifice is valid, why was it imperative for Jesus to survive Herod’s massacre of the innocents?”
The goal of the article is to generate new thinking on the point of Jesus’ alleged sacrifice — it’s a worthwhile endeavor for both Christian and non-Christian to try and fully understand what each believes about vicarious redemption.
Article: Jesus: Possibly Acceptable Child Sacrifice
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=f4195197-1eef-4d94-8f1a-db9fe9f6528f)
Posted on July 6th, 2009
You may be on to something, Jaume. To which I could counter, "It's very convenient that Jesus rose from the dead only once, while he was supposedly buried behind some huge boulder, with no witnesses there at the time and Jesus gone by the time anyone got there. At least modern magicians do their tricks in front of people."
I'm sure they would reply that we just need to have "faith" that he was resurrected. Believers try to have it both ways: "there's proof Jesus rose from the dead!" Then when you dispute the proof, they say "You have to have faith." Which is it???