When It Comes to Sacrifice, God Doesn’t Play Fair
24-09-2020 10:08 via feeds.christianitytoday.com

When It Comes to Sacrifice, God Doesn’t Play Fair

Humans have a penchant for sacrifice, but it’s the Lord who makes it possible.
Over the years, one thing that has fascinated me about the gospel is the way it takes our familiar human longings and instincts and transforms their common, sinful manifestations in liberative ways.
Take the almost universal human impulse to sacrifice, for instance. Jewish philosopher Moshe Halbertal notes in On Sacrifice that sacrifice is the “most primary and basic form of all ritual.” In Greco-Rom
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