My wife and I recently celebrated our anniversary by going back to the chapel we were married in and revisiting the restaurant from our first date.
I am one very lucky guy.
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So God sacrificed himself to himself to save us from himself. Beautiful. Poetic, even.
Why was a blood sacrifice necessary? Can't God forgive without it?
Not purporting to have all the answers here or to ascribe to any particular one.
That said though...The concept is that sin (breaking the rules set forth) has a price that has to be paid. Pre jesus that was done with sacrificing an animal, generally the best lamb of a litter(think litter is the right word, doesn't matter really). It was meant to be symbolism for when jesus performed his sacrifice.
The whole purpose with jesus coming was to be the sacrifice that would pay the price for sins committed. Thus allowing the law to have its demands of punishment be met, and allowing mercy at the same time. Appeasing justice and granting mercy.
The whole trinity concept (god is jesus and the holy spirit etc) is distinctly Catholicism, (maybe a couple others, not sure edit:not just a catholic thing, I've been corrected.). It confuses the fuck out of me on a conceptual level so I'm not sure how to explain it. But in general I think what I've laid out is the basis for many of the sects
It's definitely not just a couple others. The vast majority of modern denominations believe in the trinity. The list of sects that reject the trinity is much shorter.
Gotcha, thanks for the correction!
The trinity is very, very much not just a Catholic thing.
I stand corrected, thanks!
No. If God forgave without it, then He wouldn't be perfectly just, then He'd be imperfect and thus not God.