Hebrews 10:16-18
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds,”
17 he also adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” 18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Were animal sacrifices really so bad? After hearing the Passion (and actually listening – watching it, imagining it, experiencing it), I have to question whether this was really an improvement. I get that it brought to an end a recurrent process that would have cost millions – probably billions – of animals their life over the course of Judaism, so a once-and-for-all solution was efficient, but was this the only way? I mean, I’m sure PETA was all for it – but Jesus died. Painfully. Shamefully. Actually.
I’ve read the rest, so I know what happens, so bear with me for a bit of insensitivity. How does this even work? What’s the exchange rate? He didn’t really even bleed – a bit from his stigmata (which, at least in him, were without question not psychosomatic), but there was nowhere near the amount of blood in him that would have been in an average ox, let alone billions of them, so how did his human body obviate the entire animal sacrificial system? And if you make a Bitcoin analogy, I’ll excommunicate you.
I know God works in mysterious ways, has an invisible hand, sets the market rate wherever He wants it, and is the gold standard of, well, everything, so it’s futile to even question Him – but now that I’ve realized that it’s okay to question Him, as long as you actively listen for His response, I’m sort of on a roll.
From one day to the next, God changed the entire path to His presence. He redefined salvation by unpegging sin from sacrifice. He let it float and it bottomed out. Jesus literally destroyed the market – no wonder the stock markets are closed on Good Friday.
I may not know exactly how the mechanism works – I’m not an economist, even though I do have Twitter and a hot take on inflation – but I have faith that it does work. Here’s my advice: Instead of worrying too much about past performance, let’s focus on forward-looking statements. The cost of discipleship is high, and getting higher every day, but it’s the most important investment we’ll ever make. Christ has died, Christ is risen – and his return is guaranteed.
— MeganPrestonMeyer
16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their hearts,
and I will write them on their minds,”
17 he also adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” 18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Were animal sacrifices really so bad? After hearing the Passion (and actually listening – watching it, imagining it, experiencing it), I have to question whether this was really an improvement. I get that it brought to an end a recurrent process that would have cost millions – probably billions – of animals their life over the course of Judaism, so a once-and-for-all solution was efficient, but was this the only way? I mean, I’m sure PETA was all for it – but Jesus died. Painfully. Shamefully. Actually.
I’ve read the rest, so I know what happens, so bear with me for a bit of insensitivity. How does this even work? What’s the exchange rate? He didn’t really even bleed – a bit from his stigmata (which, at least in him, were without question not psychosomatic), but there was nowhere near the amount of blood in him that would have been in an average ox, let alone billions of them, so how did his human body obviate the entire animal sacrificial system? And if you make a Bitcoin analogy, I’ll excommunicate you.
I know God works in mysterious ways, has an invisible hand, sets the market rate wherever He wants it, and is the gold standard of, well, everything, so it’s futile to even question Him – but now that I’ve realized that it’s okay to question Him, as long as you actively listen for His response, I’m sort of on a roll.
From one day to the next, God changed the entire path to His presence. He redefined salvation by unpegging sin from sacrifice. He let it float and it bottomed out. Jesus literally destroyed the market – no wonder the stock markets are closed on Good Friday.
I may not know exactly how the mechanism works – I’m not an economist, even though I do have Twitter and a hot take on inflation – but I have faith that it does work. Here’s my advice: Instead of worrying too much about past performance, let’s focus on forward-looking statements. The cost of discipleship is high, and getting higher every day, but it’s the most important investment we’ll ever make. Christ has died, Christ is risen – and his return is guaranteed.
— MeganPrestonMeyer
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