Jesus Vs The Old Testament

[stamenflicker]

Anyway, Jesus's sacrifice wipes out Adam's original sin then but that obviously was not the belief of the Christian churches for a long time since people were baptised to remove the stain of original sin, no?

If you look a little deeper, it's not so much that God became man to do this thing as it is, more specifically put, Yahweh became Jesus. It was an unkindly thing for the barbaric god, yet his own personal atonement and a shift, a marked shift in theological thought for the time. The sacrifice of God, or divine suicide, still remains one of the most profound concepts of human mythology. Unlike say other gods who began their "lives" with a sacrificial motif, we have in the Judeo-Christian literature, a god who makes it a personal choice. The orginal sin removed is more an act of removing the original punishment, which Yaweh determined was quite ineffective in regulating human behavior.

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[Graham]

If you look a little deeper, it's not so much that God became man to do this thing as it is, more specifically put, Yahweh became Jesus. It was an unkindly thing for the barbaric god, yet his own personal atonement and a shift, a marked shift in theological thought for the time. The sacrifice of God, or divine suicide, still remains one of the most profound concepts of human mythology. Unlike say other gods who began their "lives" with a sacrificial motif, we have in the Judeo-Christian literature, a god who makes it a personal choice. The orginal sin removed is more an act of removing the original punishment, which Yaweh determined was quite ineffective in regulating human behavior.

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I still don't understand, I'm afraid.

Regardless of your God's reason for removing original sin, why was baptism considered necessary to remove original sin if original sin had already been removed by the sacrifice/suicide of Jesus?

On a seperate point, if Yahweh became Jesus and Yahweh did not cease to exist with the death of Jesus, what sacrifice was made?

Graham