[Susan27476]

Linda: I’m afraid that your ‘tongue-in-cheek’ response is very much mistaken. Christianity in all its forms is a religion based on the idea that God will forgive people only through the death of Jesus. The Christian view of God insists that He is so vengeful that someone’s got to be tortured to death in order for Him to forgive. The Jewish view of redemption is quite different. If you look at the Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) prayer book you will see that over and over on Yom Kippur Jews around the world recite that ‘repentance, prayer and good deeds annul the evil decree.’ Jews believe that God, out of his own love and generosity, redeems all those who truly repent. Look at the difference in the Jewish and Christian interpretations of the story of the binding of Isaac. My understanding is that Christians see it as a prefiguring of the the sacrifice of Jesus. On the other hand, most Jewish interpretations I encounter view this as a story, in part, about substitution of an animal sacrifice for a human sacrifice. Judaism absolutely and categorically rejects human sacrifice, while Christianity appears to me to be based on it.

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