[yldstrk]

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.

[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

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?