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The apostle Paul wrote about the dispersion, the dispersed House of Israel. They had been “without covenant“, but Paul was sent out to recover them. So they were “grafted in again“ (Romans 11/23). Or, Grafted back in“. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been […]
Rob Mac wonders when the door to door will return? He wrote this a while back, and went sharing it again. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses hate the door to door ministry, although they won’t readily admit it. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses have developed ‘creative’ ways of counting their time doing this work, and many strategies for avoiding actually […]
Constantine wanted unity in his realm, and his call in 325 C.E. for a council of his bishops at Nicaea, located in the Eastern, Greek-speaking domain of his empire, across the Bosporus from the new city of Constantinople was in a certain way his goal to achieve some agreement by which many could live. Constantine […]
Superstition, misunderstanding and hatred caused the Christians trouble for many generations, and governmental repression they had to suffer occasionally, as a result of popular disturbances. No systematic effort was made by the imperial authorities to put an end to the movement until the reign of the Roman emperor (249–251) who fought the Gothic invasion of […]
Stepping Toes 
Hands up all those that celebrate Human Sacrifices…
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Do you never sacrifice yourself for somebody else, like your wife for example?
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That’s not close to my point.
The idea of vicarious redemption through the torture and slaughter of a 3rd party is in NO WAY moral nor ethical.
this is what I object to
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Who are we to decide what is moral or not when the maker of the element itself decides what to do with that element?
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Are you REALLY saying you don’t have the capacity to evaluate whether someone being tortured & killed is moral or not?
I know it’s immoral, as:
1. I wouldn’t want it done to me;
2. I wouldn’t want it done you you or anyone else on earth; and
3. Jesus wanted the cup to be taken from him too (although this is inconsistent between Gospels)
Can the all powerful, all knowing God not come up with anything more clever than a blood sacrifice? Why not simply forgive? This doesn’t make sense to me, nor most people who’ve given serious thought to the morals of such actions.
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You did not read my reply very well. I did not say that we do not have the capacity to evaluate whether someone being tortured & killed is moral or not?
God allowed a blood sacrifice because it were human being who thought they should bring blood sacrifices to their gods.
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