As I’ve been reading along the author’s study of sacrifice in the old testament, both of purification and atonement, what is clear with atoning sacrifices the issue isn’t the salvation of the individual who sinned, but rather sin was a aerial miasma thought to contaminate the holy place and the land which could prevent God … Lamb of the Free (9)

As long as there have been Jesus followers the apocalypse warning alarm has been sounding. Jesus thought the end of the age was coming in the lifetime of his disciples, and Paul thought the end had already started. Skip forward a few thousand years, and the actions of Iran against Israel yesterday have prompted megachurch … The Apocalypse is Imminent, as usual

Rillaro points our that Jesus is most basically seen in one sense as the passover lamb. In the chapter currently under consideration, we see in detail passover is not an atonement ritual. He summarizes: This chapter is good because it looks at the difference between atoning and non atoning rituals and what function they served … Lamb of the Free (8)

In this section, we finnish up Rillera’s thoughts on what the Levitical sacrifices are not. There is no connection between the suffering of the animal and the sacrifice, because an animal is killed quickly and humanely, because if an animal is blemished it is no longer fit for sacrifice. The focal point is on the … Lamb of the Free (7)

Previously, Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 1/2) Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 2/2) Dr. Carlo Alvaro and Dr. Richard Carrier Debate the Kalam Cosmological Argument The Joy of Philosophy (4/4) So, in these few posts, I talked a bit about what philosophy is and the problem it is addressing. To fully appreciate what I mean … The Joy of Philosophy (Postscript and Poetry)

My previous 3 posts in this mini-series were: Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 1/2) Heidegger’s Hegelian Phenomenological Method (Part 2/2) Dr. Carlo Alvaro and Dr. Richard Carrier Debate the Kalam Cosmological Argument Philosophy has to do not only with the “what” of ideas, but also “how” philosophy is being done. Moreover, we have to ask … The Joy of Philosophy (4/4)

Human blood in the OT defiled rather than purified, and God viewed human sacrifice as false worship. Laying on of hands doesn’t imply substitution, as some non atoning sacrifices require laying on hands, while other atoning ones do not. Rillera cites Shauff that it is not the death in the OT that is key to … Lamb of the Free (6)

So, as I said, there may in fact be a problem of applying Old Testament animal substitutionary logic to Jesus. In fact, our author Andrew Remington Rillera points out there is no such animal substitution sacrifice logic in the Old Testament, such as an animal sacrificed to substitute for someone charged with capital offence. The … Lamb of the Free (5)

Rillera is going to argue 4 theses regarding OT sacrifice as not being substitutionary. He outlines these as follows: So, as we go along we’ll see the arguments put forth to defend these theses.

Rillera provides some helpful foreshadowing of what we will see in the book: