Blood

[rowena_zane]

I inexplicably woke up before dawn, this morning, wide awake. I tossed for a half hour and shuffled into the computer room to find an email from my dad sent moments before. He'd been praying for me and responded to a talk we'd had last night about theology

Comments

[thorny_rose]

Can you clarify your confusion, if that makes any sense. :p Why is there death, sacrifice and blood? Or why does it have anything to do with ____?

[rowena_zane]

Why is God bound to only accept blood sacrifice as a means of clearing guilt? Reading about the first sacrifice, God doesn't want it any more than the poor creatures He's casting from Eden, but He's just as much bound to the rules of sacrifice as Adam and Eve.

Is it simply because God said that the fruit would kill them, and so now He has to follow up on the promise? Or is there something woven into existence, itself, that turning from God requires a payment of blood?

To be the very thing upon which Christianity rides, you'd think it would be an easy question to answer. But so far, I've heard nothing satisfying, nor found an answer to satisfy myself.

[kunimatyu]

("because some scribes totally made it up?")

I'd advise checking out some Sumerian myths more closely - the first part of Genesis is totally cribbed from them, but you might enjoy figuring out precisely what's different and why.

God does not lie.

[thorny_rose]

If you want to call that being "bound", okay. Considering there is absolutely nothing anyone is able give to God that could remotely make up for rejecting Him (in the form of whatever sin), Blood, being Life, is pretty much the extent of our wealth.

And of course, the fruit would not kill them, but their rejection of the sovereignty of God, the source of all Life, would kill them and everything else that God put under their sovereignty (ie. The World).