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:

From Campbell’s preface to Rillera’s book we read regarding sacrifice: Hopefully this book will go to the heart of what many believe to be the core of the Christian faith, penal substitution atonement (that Christ died to pay the sin debt we owe), refuting them, and also that secular readings of Christian origins based on … (2) Lamb of the Free

I’ll be reviewing Rillera’s Lamb of the Free which is trending right now as a critique and alternative to the substitutionary atonement interpretation of Jesus’s death (that Jesus suffered the death we deserved). Here is the blurb from the publisher: This should be fun!

(via https://www.facebook.com/scientistsforeu/posts/3030750643693591) Have you ever wondered why brilliant people can also hold some pretty bizarre beliefs? Part of the reason is the mis-idea of intelligence in general, for instance if someone is a brilliant painter they will also be a genius at sculpture. But, another reason is that creative people see the forest despite the … The Sins of Highly Effective People

Trump spent a manic Eastern posting in volume, but some posts getting the most attention are when Trump reposted the opinion that he was the special chosen one of God. For instance: See the Trump critiquing article by Ron Filipkowski HERE

Professor Philip Goff is one of the world’s leading proponents of a new theory that claims the universe itself is conscious and set the conditions for the emergence of intelligent life. Could people soon be praying to this godlike cosmos? SEE ARTICLE HERE

Never missing an opportunity to blow things way out of proportion, Fox News has doubled down on their “celebrating transgenderism on Easter is an existential threat to God” narrative: Now, Easter basically plays musical chairs with what day it is going to fall on, March 31 being the day the transgender day of visibility has … “A Coordinated Effort to Destroy God” (Fox News)

Friend of Infidels Richard Carrier recently debated Carlo Alvaro on the Cosmological Argument. Alvaro apparently had a less than pleasing experience, claiming:  If you are interested in the Cosmological argument, put simplistically you can think I had parents, and they had parents, and they had parents and so on until we get back to some … Dr. Carlo Alvaro and Dr. Richard Carrier Debate the Kalam Cosmological Argument