Korsfästelsen i kristendomen

När jag under min uppväxt kom i kontakt med den kristna doktrinen att Jesus dog för våra synder, så var jag helt säker på att jag missförstått det hela. Senare förstod jag att jag inte hade missförstått. Ett stridslystet ego i mig, ville gärna peka ut det galna i denna idé att Jesus dog för våra synder (även om jag bet mig i tungan och aldrig sa något högt).

För ett par år sedan fick jag faktiskt en riktigt bra förklaring till den kristna synen på korsfästelsen. Någon såg dogmen från det Rätta Sinnet och satte in den i ett historiskt sammanhang så att den gick att förstå även för mig. Här är förklaringen jag fick på ett internetforum om detta (Deborah som svarar är EKIM-student):

"Like all other thought systems, I think it's important to understand this within the context it appears. The way the story goes, Jesus came into this world as a Jew. Prior to his entrance, Jews had practiced ritual sacrifice off and on for about two thousand years as a means to appease God. Jews obviously weren't alone in that belief -- sacrifice of one form or another was almost universally accepted. The thing that set Jews apart from other relgions in those days wasn't that they practiced ritual sacrifice, but that they believed in only ONE god. I believe the religious significance of sacrifice began by observation. No seemingly individual life on this planet can exist without the seeming death (or sacrifice) of another life. In a hierarchy of life forms, it's clear one life form (animal, fish, plant or what have you) gives its life to sustain another. It seems only natural to me that when mankind sensed himself separate from God, sacrifice became the means to appease him and get back in his good graces.

The important thing, it seems to me was that they recognized somethingwas wrong -- whether it really was or not is irrelevant. They believed they were sinful and so they were. Seeing themselves as sinful, they chose a means of healing they could believe in. That's what religion does. It teaches us to look within and if we find "sin," it provides a means of healing. But to get back to Jesus, that's the world in which he appeared -- one where it was almost universally believed that sacrifice was the means of atonement. Although Jesus taught God is love, is it really any wonder that his followers misunderstood? That after the crucifixtion they perceived it as the final sacrifice to end all sacrifice?
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Obviously by the time A Course in Miracles came around our thoughts had evolved past the concept of sacrifice as a means of atonement. But it seems perfectly understandable to me that in those times, that is what they believed. It's what they saw as the way the world worked. Our focus now is more psychological, but it would have been a little strange for that to have been so 2000 years ago, don't ya think?"