That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.
Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.
Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all of us would be doomed.
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
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