tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post507509242323023037..comments2023-06-24T01:15:34.627-07:00Comments on The Skeptic Zone: im-skepticalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-27119908988061186342018-01-04T20:19:01.373-08:002018-01-04T20:19:01.373-08:00condemnation of the world "system"
- Th...<i>condemnation of the world "system"</i><br /><br />- That seems to align with the original concept of the messiah. Before the Christians transformed it into something altogether different.<br /><br /><br /><i>a bizarre effort to make the powerless amoung us as blameworthy as the powerful</i><br /><br />- Exactly. It's a real guilt trip.im-skepticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08267710618719895303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221547022510742794.post-18770061544233064232018-01-04T17:36:50.919-08:002018-01-04T17:36:50.919-08:00So God commits an abomination against himself to s...So God commits an abomination against himself to save sinners? <br /><br />:-o wild story!! <br /><br />I know....there's no way to rationalize it much, I agree with you. But so I kinda suspect did Paul....<br /><br /><i> At a time when Jews expect a miracle and Greeks seek enlightenment, we speak about God’s Anointed crucified! This is an offense to Jews, nonsense to the nations; but to those who have heard God’s call, both Jews and Greeks, the Anointed represents God’s power and God’s wisdom; because the folly of God is wiser than humans are and the weakness of God is stronger than humans are. —1 Cor 1: 22–25</i><br /><br />I think the execution of "the sinless one" by collusion of the ruling Empire of the time with certain privileged spiritual elites can only be understood as a condemnation of the world "system" - not so much as condemnation of people's individual sins (except to the extent that we are all, at least in the developed world, beholding to that system and beneficiaries of it). That's the only "sense" it makes, if any....<br /><br />The standard RCC/Prot substitutionary atonement theory, however, is just bizarre, as you point out; it strikes me as a bizarre effort to make the powerless amoung us as blameworthy as the powerful and so, I suppose, to justify the continuing use of the same kind of elitist powers even in an Xian context....Mike Gerowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630695728013930638noreply@blogger.com