To: wafflehouse
well, the way I read it, you can’t sacrifice an animal or your neighbor, you have to sacrifice yourself. die to self as opposed to designating “the wife” for example as the religious person in your family.
It is a little bit of a stretch, because you can’t really say “well, I offer my slave in sacrifice”, so perhaps his argument about sacrificing “other” is not so persuasive these days, when we don’t own each other.
But my take on his comments is that you have to sacrifice yourself to please God.
11 posted on
01/13/2012 3:52:12 PM PST by
yldstrk
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To: yldstrk
well, the way I read it, you cant sacrifice an animal or your neighbor, you have to sacrifice yourself. die to self as opposed to designating the wife for example as the religious person in your family.
It is a little bit of a stretch, because you cant really say well, I offer my slave in sacrifice, so perhaps his argument about sacrificing other is not so persuasive these days, when we dont own each other.
But my take on his comments is that you have to sacrifice yourself to please God
Is this guy getting paid by the word? 5700 words to say 'Man up and do your duty as a Christian'? This is a contemporary writing, not some ancient tome written by someone with a different way of speaking
Is he speaking abstractly, since sacrificing people was strictly forbidden?
25 posted on
01/14/2012 11:13:19 AM PST by
wafflehouse
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