Of course, no blood sacrifice was made by the people. Jesus was not offered to God; he was executed as a heretic.
If you look at it as Jesus offering *himself* to God, seems to me it's a lot of navel gazing on the part of the Deity and that nothing the people did enters into it.
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Date: 2011-01-28 02:58 pm (UTC)From:Of course, no blood sacrifice was made by the people. Jesus was not offered to God; he was executed as a heretic.
If you look at it as Jesus offering *himself* to God, seems to me it's a lot of navel gazing on the part of the Deity and that nothing the people did enters into it.