Two things: first, I did a search in my new electronic Bible for places where the words "sin" and "atonement" appear anywhere near each other. In the vast majority of cases they were in the context of sacrifices. In all but one case out of all the ones I looked at in fact. Very Interesting!
Second, something dawned on me today. I sort of knew it before, but didn't think about it too much. Modern Jews seem to hate the Church. Unfortunately they exand it to Christianity in general even though the Roman Catholic church did most of the persecuting throughout history. I've even heard the Holocaust blamed on Christianity. In any case, even though they hate the Roman Catholic church, ironically, Orthodox Jews have a very similar belief structure to Roman Catholicism. Both are works-based religions, both have a very similar view of tradition (including an "oral" tradition), both have a very similar view of authority, etc.
Sunday, April 2, 2000
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