Quote: (04-23-2018 04:55 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Quote: (04-19-2018 03:34 PM)Mage Wrote:
You are a liar. You know full well that there is nothing intuitive about a dead corpse hanging on a wooden cross and somehow representing victory, strength and immortality.
Christians always bring up emotional explanations about why is death on cross so important and how much it means to them, because it doesn't make any sense rationally.
But it does. It, once again, is fascinatingly-legalistic, mirroring how Demonology functions. The Light and the Dark both operate via Terms and Conditions that the Dark attempts to obscures knowledge of so people are more easily tricked, and that the Light has clearly-laid out for us. Follow the Law, and you don't go insane and destroy your life and the lives of those around you. (Note how often insanity and disease is labelled as being possessed by demons in biblical texts).
With the Crucifixion, The Old Covenant is being broken, and a New one - as formerly laid out in the Last Supper - is being 'signed'.
Why are demonic contracts signed in blood?
Why the importance of blood sacrifices in Pagan Religions?
So here, God becomes his own Sacrifice, freeing all who believe.
Blood offerings are no longer required by Man to God, instead blood is offered for man by God.
What does biblical prophecy say happens when peace is declared in the middle east and the Anti-Christ allows the rebuilding of the Third Temple? The recommencement of Blood Sacrifices.
See how eternal and universal the importance of Blood for the Gods is, and why this one act is the inverse of that tradition?
If you view the world as being under Satan's Control, then the Biblical Texts and the provided rules are a strict operant conditioning system to psychologically-programme you to - with work and discipline - be freed of satanic bondage. Dysfunctional actions guarantee dysfunctional results under the Law that is in place because your spiritual protections are, legally, removed.
Remember what happens immediately after Jesus dies on the Cross: The Harrowing Of Hell. Jesus descends into Hell, tells the virtuous that the Gates of Heaven have been opened, and leads them to paradise. Note that even though they'd followed God's Law until they died, they were not fully yet out of Satan's reach.
The crucifixion is the rewriting of the Legal Code, almost if Jesus had found a Loophole in Satan's Contract.
It's fascinating.
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with
Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was
against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed
the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. (Col 2.13-15)
Augustine: “And where the devil could do something, there he met with defeat on every side. While from
the cross he received the power to slay the Lord's body outwardly, it was also from the cross that the inward
power, by which he held us fast, was put to death. For it came to pass that the chains of many sins in many
deaths were broken by the one death of the One who himself had no previous sin that would merit death.
And, therefore, for our sake the Lord paid the tribute to death which was not his due, in order that the death
which was due might not injure us. For he was not stripped of the flesh by any obligation to any power
whatsoever, but he willed his own death, for he who could not die unless he willed doubtless died because
he willed; and therefore he openly exposed the principalities and the powers, confidently triumphing over
them in himself”. ON THE TRINITY 4-13-17-57
“In biblical cosmology the king must first seek reconciliation and demonstrate that the stewards
are unrepentant or he can be accused of being selfish and arbitrary. He sends servants, who are
mistreated. He sends his son, who is tried by the vassals’ court, found guilty, and punished by
death. The case is appealed to the supreme court in heaven. There the judgment of the lower
court is found to be unjust, so the verdict is overturned. Moreover, the court itself is found to
be evil, so it is removed from power and sentenced to punishment. The central issue, then, is
not one of power, but of legitimacy…Given this imagery it is clear why the cross, not the
resurrection, is the supreme victory, for there Satan and his supporters are shown to be evil. In the
resurrection God overturns the judgment of the Jewish and Roman courts and frees the innocent
victim. When the case was overturned, Satan had no more legitimate authority in heaven or on
earth. He was therefore cast out.” (Anthropological Reflections on Missiological Issues, Paul G. Hiebert, Baker:1994.)
The Cross is without doubt a symbol of Christ's Victory (or Christus Victor for people interested in additional reading) over Satan. Bosch is right and it is you Mage who is a liar here.