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The Atonement Part 23—The Scapegoat and Other Non-Bloody Offerings (a)
“Because God hates us, we have to placate him with blood offerings.” So says the Atonement School.
Our task in this lecture is to expose the faulty presuppositions behind this mindset. We begin by showing the Atonement School’s commission of two mistakes in reasoning: the pragmatic fallacy and the fallacy of semantical questions. Then—by paralleling their claims with the competing heliocentric and geocentric models of the solar system current in the early-modern era—we show that this camp has constructed a faulty model that does not account for all of the Biblical data.
Finally, we define the theological concepts of essence and energies. Thereby, we show that “hatred” is merely a phenomenological description of what happens when human sin interacts with God’s energies.
Run time: 23:16; Posted: 5/19/12 (originally 4/20/12)
The Atonement Part 24—The Scapegoat and Other Non-Bloody Offerings (b)
While the Atonement School claims that the Old Testament animal sacrifices took place to placate God’s furious hatred of humanity, the Bible sharply differs. In fact, the Bible explicitly states that all of the following offerings or actions bring the same level of atonement as animal sacrifice:
- Flour offerings (Lv 5:11-13),
- Incense offerings (Nm 16:44-48),
- Spoils of war (Nm 31:50),
- Artwork (1 Sam 6:3-8),
- Acts of lawful iconoclasm (Is 27:9),
- Doing good deeds (Dn 4:27).
This lecture also exposes the Atonement School’s misuse of Leviticus 17:11 (“it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul”) and Hebrews 9:22 (“without shedding of blood is no remission [of sins]”).
Run time: 23:04; Posted: 5/19/12 (originally 4/20/12)
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