Comments on: Our first Christmas, contextualization, and sacred violence http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/ Thoughts on life, faith, and technology in a first world context. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Yearly viewing of the Lord of the Rings trilogy at Damon Snyder http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/#comment-8927 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:54:40 +0000 http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/#comment-8927 [...] Related: Our first Christmast, contextualization, and sacred violence. Filed under: culture, myth   |   [...] […] Related: Our first Christmast, contextualization, and sacred violence. Filed under: culture, myth   |   […]

]]> by: damon http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/#comment-8722 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:45:25 +0000 http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/#comment-8722 Hi Cindy, I want to learn more about this idea. I think I have always been fascinated by myths, culture, and history. In a sense our greatest stories ever told. The suggestion that through Jesus, we have an end to the cycle of myth and sacrifice sounds like another layer to the climax of the great story of God and his people. Damon Hi Cindy,
I want to learn more about this idea. I think I have always been fascinated by myths, culture, and history. In a sense our greatest stories ever told. The suggestion that through Jesus, we have an end to the cycle of myth and sacrifice sounds like another layer to the climax of the great story of God and his people.

Damon

]]> by: Cynthia http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/#comment-8698 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:07:52 +0000 http://damonsnyder.com/archives/2006/12/04/our-first-christmas-contextualization-and-sacred-violence/#comment-8698 "Does God really approve the practice of ritual sacrifice? I desire mercy and not sacrifice he says. If not, why would he enter into it through the law and ultimately in Jesus?" good questions. You have some good thoughts here...and some radical ones. I like how you process in the light of the current cultural context. God was the one who set up ritual sacrifices in the OT, so I'm sure he's approved of it (except for sacrificing of human beings)...and I think the second verse that you quoted was in the context of the Israelites only superficially offering the ritual sacrifices and neglect the 'heart' matter. Jesus later on in NT also affirms that...that mercy is the more important matter. The atoning sacrifice is still important because it is the only way in which we can be reconciled with God. Thank God now we don't have to deal with the hassel of it all b/c of Jesus, who died once and for all. I'm sure though, like you said, in the light of today's world and culture, his death brings other meaning and implications than merely 'saving us' from our sins. “Does God really approve the practice of ritual sacrifice? I desire mercy and not sacrifice he says. If not, why would he enter into it through the law and ultimately in Jesus?”

good questions. You have some good thoughts here…and some radical ones. I like how you process in the light of the current cultural context.

God was the one who set up ritual sacrifices in the OT, so I’m sure he’s approved of it (except for sacrificing of human beings)…and I think the second verse that you quoted was in the context of the Israelites only superficially offering the ritual sacrifices and neglect the ‘heart’ matter. Jesus later on in NT also affirms that…that mercy is the more important matter. The atoning sacrifice is still important because it is the only way in which we can be reconciled with God. Thank God now we don’t have to deal with the hassel of it all b/c of Jesus, who died once and for all. I’m sure though, like you said, in the light of today’s world and culture, his death brings other meaning and implications than merely ’saving us’ from our sins.

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