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The Parable Of The Sacrifice That Isn’t Really A Sacrifice – Why The Story Of Jesus' Supposed Sacrifice Is Pure Baloney

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Christians delight in telling non-believers about the great sacrifice that Jesus Christ made so that we could all be saved, shedding his spiritual coil to take on a mortal self to suffer for the good of all humanity.
That’s the entire premise of Christianity, that human beings are broken, depraved creatures who are destined for hell fire unless they drink the sweet cup of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.
John 3:16 is the most famous verse in the Christian bible and it casts the ‘sacrifice’ in terms of God giving up his holy begotten son, yet was there really any sacrifice?
GhanaCelebrities.Com writer Godwin Nii-Armah Okine tackled the issue with a parable on social media. Using a parable format, the post wonders what sacrifice exists in losing your son for three days and getting him back? If that was the standard for sacrifices everyone could do it.
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The parable of the Sacrifice That Isn’t Really a Sacrifice…
Earth
Let’s assume the premise of the movie Armageddon is coming true, the one with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. I presume everyone has watched it but for those who haven’t, I’ll restate my slightly altered scenario for the purposes of my parable.

There is an asteroid headed for us that threatens to wipe out all life on earth, bringing devastation worse than anything the dinosaurs ever suffered back in the whatever era it was they died – and we have no adequate star wars system to blow it to smithereens.
What we have though, are thermonuclear devices that can blast it to pieces. But for the force to be enough to divert the pieces off course from hitting earth, the explosion has to occur within the asteroid’s core.
We have machines capable of doing the drilling, all we need is one person to set the timer before the robot drops the bomb into the hole. Explosion occurs upon impact, ergo the one person chosen to go would not return.
At a summit of the entire planet, the situation is explained and volunteers are sought for – due to the purposes of the story only first born kids can make the trip, and their parents have to consent. How many people do you think would offer up their first born kids to die for humanity? I’m assuming 1,000 max out of a population of 7bn people. That’s just my gut and it has no bearing on the point, but you can bet the volunteers wouldn’t be up to a statistically significant number. Human beings are pretty selfish.
Now let’s assume a caveat is added – whoever goes would die but come back to life in three days. You get to go save the world, become a martyr in the process, but return to life in three days the greatest hero of all time.
Now how many parents do you think would volunteer their kids now? Practically the whole planet? Half the planet? Anybody would be a fool not to take the latter deal.
That’s because the second deal is not really a sacrifice. Because sacrifice entails actually losing something you really, really care about – not loaning it out and getting it back three days later.
This is the parable of the Sacrifice that isn’t really a sacrifice, and why the story of Jesus’ (and God’s) grand sacrifice for humanity isn’t really a sacrifice at all.



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2 thoughts on “The Parable Of The Sacrifice That Isn’t Really A Sacrifice – Why The Story Of Jesus' Supposed Sacrifice Is Pure Baloney”

  1. Chris, your Anti-Christ agenda on this platform is getting out of hand, no one grudges you if you chose not to believe in God but the constant bashing of Christians is too much, as a Lawyer you should appreciate different views, you have picked on Christians for far too long, try Moslems and you will see the consequence, Mr KNOW ALL, have you heard about Religious Intolerance?

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