{
  "export": {
    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4383",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
    "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'"
  },
  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 4383,
    "subject": "OT: divine justice",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2005-03-22T20:51:32+00:00",
    "last": "2005-03-22T22:30:45+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<20050323045126.VVZE1282.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "aramini1 at cox.net",
        "address": "aramini1 at cox.net"
      },
      "date": "2005-03-22T20:51:32+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT: divine justice",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "All this talk of Abraham and his son has enticed me to post again after my silence through the Skinner, et al. posts. \n\nAs a child, I always thought about why Jesus had to suffer for the evil of the world.  Then it came to me, one day.  It reminds me of Simmons analysis of the Abraham sacrifice.\n\nGod created the world.  Jesus is one in being with the Father, God the Creator.  Jesus died for the sins of the world, and the evil of mankind.  God created mankind and the world, and all the evil in it.  Therefore, the only justice possible was the ritual execution of that God, who created the world and all that was in it.\n\nImagine the bizarro creator id lingering in the back of the mortal goodness of Jesus' mind, glutted with cosmic power and yearning for some new experience to match all the sensous depravity and pristine goodness that It had already created. Self-crucifixion - a new pyre of experience to kindle, like some proto-Dorian Grey: a hunger for redemption and newness buried under timeless experience, all bundled finitely together under the facade of ultimate innocence - the face of the suffering Christ.\n\nWith that image in mind, certainly Severian could be a Christ figure.  Downright Godly.\n\nMarc Aramini\n (next post will be on Wolfe)"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<010a01c52f71$d8c07a70$60a3f63f@wynnhouse>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "thewynns at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2005-03-22T22:30:45+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT: divine justice",
      "in_reply_to": "<20050323045126.VVZE1282.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net>",
      "reply_link": "header",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "All this talk of Abraham and his son has enticed me to post again after my\nsilence through the Skinner, et al. posts.\n\nAs a child, I always thought about why Jesus had to suffer for the evil of\nthe world.  Then it came to me, one day.  It reminds me of Simmons analysis\nof the Abraham sacrifice [that Abraham was testing God]."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "I've never met or read a Jewish Rabbi or secular religion scholar that did \nnot find the Isaac sacrifice problematic. But I can assure you as an \nauthority that Fundamentalist Christians don't find it problematic at all.\n\nA) Because they (believing all the events in the OT stories to be historical \nfact) recognize that the story is absolutely *stewing* in Christian imagery \n(which is undeniably true). So they read Abraham story as they read the rest \nof the Old Testament: as a deliberate allegory set up by God to point to \nJesus the Messiah.\n\nB) Because the letter to the Hebrews (NT) states that Abraham was trusting \nin God's goodness and integrity in following a command he did not \nunderstand. It says that Abraham knew that God had promised to make a great \nnation from Isaac, so he believed that, if nothing else, God would raise him \nfrom the dead after the sacrifice. It was an act of child-like or \nknight-like trust in God.\n\n~ Crush"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}