• CupcakeOfSpice [she/her, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    21 days ago

    I am from a USian church, so what I learned may be completely heretical, but what I was taught was that Jesus served the role of a sacrificial animal, but by being entirely flawless his sacrifice was final and forgave all sins? I dunno. No matter how specific they get in parallels with OT sacrifices, they remain fairly vague about how precisely it saves us.

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      21 days ago

      If you’ve played the elder scrolls. Jesus’s is the divine logos of the world (to say he is the amaranth is wrong but also a decent inital grasping) and his sacrifice was a dragon break that changed the vector of the logos towards salvation and re-communion with God, this time as fully mature beings graced with knowledge.

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      21 days ago

      That also expresses the same meaning as what I said; the point is that Christ, by virtue of being fully divine, has an infinite amount of mercy and grace that, via the Passion, gets extended out to all of humanity like an olive branch (covenant) from the Father. I know the chud megapastors spam the verse a lot, but John 3:16 explains the idea, too.