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#35 Qs on Crucifixion and Atonement

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Crucifixion and the Importance of Blood Supplication

Fred in new market Ontario says can you explain the necessity of Jesus's crucifixion specifically as a blood sacrifice. Fred: We are so distanced from the idea of animal sacrifice that that's not something that we do or have done in the ancient world most people live quite close to the land and would be used to killing animals for all sorts of reasons either for food or because they were sick or offering them in some sort of sacrifice. The end the telos is the abolishment of blood sacrifice beyond a simplistic he was the perfect man so his sacrifice was enough how is it required at all and conversely how is it enough for the almost infinitude of humanity sins both transgression and missing

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