Posted: Nov 17, 2019 8:19 pm
Another thought: Suppose a man commits murder and is convicted in court. The judge passes sentence: the murderer must spend the rest of his days in prison. The man's son pipes up and says, "No! Let me do the time in place of my dad!" Does anyone in his right mind think that justice would be served by that? Of course not.
The fact is that the notion of a "ransom sacrifice" has its roots in the primitive notion of strict eye-for-an-eye justice, where who supplies the balancing eye is irrelevant. This primitive and ridiculous notion is found throughout the Old Testament and shows how those writings are derived from primitive Middle Eastern goat herders barely out of the Stone Age.
The fact is that the notion of a "ransom sacrifice" has its roots in the primitive notion of strict eye-for-an-eye justice, where who supplies the balancing eye is irrelevant. This primitive and ridiculous notion is found throughout the Old Testament and shows how those writings are derived from primitive Middle Eastern goat herders barely out of the Stone Age.