Why does God ask for Sacrifice?
He does not. He never did.
I was asked by my son, why did Jesus have to die?
And it got me thinking. For all human history man has offered sacrifices to God. Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob… and then Moses delivers the Israelites from Egypt, God delivers this people from slavery to Egypt and by unbelief and incredulity they ask for the Law only to be enslaved by it again with more rules and regulations, most of it about sacrifices. Today, halakhic Judaism keeps the Jewish people enslaved to regulations and rules, there is a level of observance you can have that suits anybody - and it is one thing, slavery. It’s not only the Jewish mindset, it’s the global religious mindset that even the non-religious people adopt - that God requires from you sacrifice, rule keeping, and things of that nature… does God need anything from us?
Make no mistake of it; our interpretation that God requires sacrifice is the making of man and not the saying of God - it’s is something that entered our minds only after Adam ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (I’ll call it here, the KOGE tree). You see when Adam ate the KOGE fruit, it created in Adam a consciousness of good and evil - not life. It’s good to see good! But evil is nothing.
Think of Light. The Book never says that God spoke darkness into existence. That is because darkness does not exist. Light, on the other hand, God conceived in His mind and spoke it into His existence and so Light exists. (Hey you, dear reader, understand what it means then that you are created in the Image of God!).
Physicists have observed the evidence of 'invisible' matter they describe as “dark matter”. Some may think that if matter and dark matter collide they cancel each other out somehow (but this is not proven). No matter what happens when matter and dark matter collide, the point is, dark matter is something and not nothing like the nothingness of darkness. It’s just another type of matter, just like Light. Light is something. But darkness is nothing, it does not exist.
So what about Good and Evil? God is Good! God is Light! God is Life! But neither evil nor darkness nor death exist!!! These only entered our mind when we became conscious of the lack or absence of Light, Life and Goodness! By becoming conscious of the lack of Light, we named and observe darkness, the same applies for Life and death, Good and evil. We named and observe death, we named and observe evil. Something should be said of Job here “The very thing I feared has come to pass” he said - Job was a man who obsessed by the fear of harm and everyday offered sacrifices. That is the way of life on earth, what you observe in your mind, you create, whether it is Life you observe or death. O that we had never been awakened to the nothingness of these enemies of man!
(There is in physics the concept that observing something, changes the way it is - and that if it is not observed, it does not exist!)
So where does that leave us with sacrifice? Ever since Adam ate of the KOGE fruit, Adam and humankind after him all now have come to believe that God requires Sacrifice (I think in particular of Noah’s sacrifice after the flood waters receded) - the knowing of evil, somehow creates in them the misunderstanding that God would ask for something from the humanrace.
That’s why God sent His Son - His very Self - to lay down His Life as the LAMB OF GOD, the ONE SACRIFICE - GOD OFFERED FOR ALL HUMANKIND, FOR YOU AND I, EVERYONE. And we are about to see the Pierced One (Zech 12:10) and we will understand, we have completely got it wrong!
He sent His Son, understand this means God the Father manifested in human flesh, to be sacrificed precisely to destroy in us the consciousness of Good and evil, Life and death, Light and darkness and in so doing, to awaken in us only the consciousness of LOVE - His Goodness, His Life and His Light to enjoy with Him, in Him, as Him, for ever and ever. God is Love and we are in Him and He in us. Nothing more needs to be said.
I was asked by my son, why did Jesus have to die?
And it got me thinking. For all human history man has offered sacrifices to God. Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob… and then Moses delivers the Israelites from Egypt, God delivers this people from slavery to Egypt and by unbelief and incredulity they ask for the Law only to be enslaved by it again with more rules and regulations, most of it about sacrifices. Today, halakhic Judaism keeps the Jewish people enslaved to regulations and rules, there is a level of observance you can have that suits anybody - and it is one thing, slavery. It’s not only the Jewish mindset, it’s the global religious mindset that even the non-religious people adopt - that God requires from you sacrifice, rule keeping, and things of that nature… does God need anything from us?
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Think of Light. The Book never says that God spoke darkness into existence. That is because darkness does not exist. Light, on the other hand, God conceived in His mind and spoke it into His existence and so Light exists. (Hey you, dear reader, understand what it means then that you are created in the Image of God!).
Physicists have observed the evidence of 'invisible' matter they describe as “dark matter”. Some may think that if matter and dark matter collide they cancel each other out somehow (but this is not proven). No matter what happens when matter and dark matter collide, the point is, dark matter is something and not nothing like the nothingness of darkness. It’s just another type of matter, just like Light. Light is something. But darkness is nothing, it does not exist.
So what about Good and Evil? God is Good! God is Light! God is Life! But neither evil nor darkness nor death exist!!! These only entered our mind when we became conscious of the lack or absence of Light, Life and Goodness! By becoming conscious of the lack of Light, we named and observe darkness, the same applies for Life and death, Good and evil. We named and observe death, we named and observe evil. Something should be said of Job here “The very thing I feared has come to pass” he said - Job was a man who obsessed by the fear of harm and everyday offered sacrifices. That is the way of life on earth, what you observe in your mind, you create, whether it is Life you observe or death. O that we had never been awakened to the nothingness of these enemies of man!
(There is in physics the concept that observing something, changes the way it is - and that if it is not observed, it does not exist!)
So where does that leave us with sacrifice? Ever since Adam ate of the KOGE fruit, Adam and humankind after him all now have come to believe that God requires Sacrifice (I think in particular of Noah’s sacrifice after the flood waters receded) - the knowing of evil, somehow creates in them the misunderstanding that God would ask for something from the humanrace.
That’s why God sent His Son - His very Self - to lay down His Life as the LAMB OF GOD, the ONE SACRIFICE - GOD OFFERED FOR ALL HUMANKIND, FOR YOU AND I, EVERYONE. And we are about to see the Pierced One (Zech 12:10) and we will understand, we have completely got it wrong!
He sent His Son, understand this means God the Father manifested in human flesh, to be sacrificed precisely to destroy in us the consciousness of Good and evil, Life and death, Light and darkness and in so doing, to awaken in us only the consciousness of LOVE - His Goodness, His Life and His Light to enjoy with Him, in Him, as Him, for ever and ever. God is Love and we are in Him and He in us. Nothing more needs to be said.
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