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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 01:16 AM Original message |
Poll question: By His Nails and Blood, etc. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 01:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. That's some sick and violent crap masquerading as religion, IMO NT |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 01:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. They have the same range available to them as anyone else and yet |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I'd agree about everything but the masquerade |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:43 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Well, they suck the little kids in with the songs and hand clapping |
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longship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. There is no such thing as redemption of the soul. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 01:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I follow. But the fundamentalists in my post might find grounds to |
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longship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I know, but this is their problem, not mine. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:15 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I'm definitely not counting you among their ranks. What I'm aiming at |
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longship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Thanks, friend. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. - - - |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 06:38 AM Response to Original message |
11. are you christian? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 12:02 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Good point, xchrom. Actually, several good points. Thank you. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 02:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. sure! |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
13. Christ was the sacrifical lamb |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 05:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I understand the allusion to Jesus of Galilee, TG, but I'm not asking |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 07:34 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. My point, OC |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-15-06 08:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Skewed indeed. Certainly I will not grant the fundamentalists their |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 07:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Yes, it is a faith based on blood |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-16-06 11:38 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. The hinge seems to be different for everyone, but it seems also to |
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nealmhughes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-18-06 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
20. I chose other, because in my theology, it is the willingness of one to go |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-18-06 10:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. A breath-taking angle, nealmhughes. It opens all the doors and |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-18-06 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
22. No, but it makes sense. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-18-06 08:42 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Another interesting angle, boloboffin. It puts me on the trail |
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NAO (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-19-06 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
24. The Bible is very clear - GOD WANTS BLOOD |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-19-06 04:52 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Yes. I'm clawing away at the hinge between the two. The Old |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-07-07 04:43 AM Response to Original message |
26. By extension, I wonder if, in the circumstance where redemption is |
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westerebus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-07-07 10:24 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Redemption as forgiveness. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 09:41 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Was the destruction of human lives on a mass scale, as in Germany in |
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westerebus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 08:46 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Micro and macro redemption in a cultural setting is |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
30. dupe |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
31. I just don't understand the whole sacrifice thing in religion. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Believe me, Evoman -- I can't answer the question either. I'm posing it |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 11:38 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. It seems fairly simple to me - it's a transaction |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 12:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Well, that seems simple enough but.... |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 12:44 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Well, I suspect it is a wide belief because mmany civilisations start with farming |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 01:17 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. You keep alluding to the past, but the fact is that we no longer live in those times. |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 01:42 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Because that would assume that each generation merely starts afresh as if the last had no influence |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 03:01 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. You make a good argument. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 02:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. I make no claim to its not being a powerful process today. |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Well I think I have covered the motivation and context ground |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 02:33 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I believe the Abraham/Isaac/Jehovah story is about sacrifice, |
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cyborg_jim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 02:39 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. There's no actual sacrifice though |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. That's one path to the context, but again, not the only one. |
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westerebus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 05:00 PM Response to Reply #31 |
44. You need to go out side of christianity for an answer. |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
45. What the hell is "redemptive blood"? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-13-07 09:09 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Blood spilled from sacrifice, considered by some to prompt |
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MistressOverdone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-17-07 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
47. This is an old post |
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