2006-07-04 13:05:23 · 5 answers · asked by Oleg B 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The idea of a scaepgoat in the biblical sense if often misunderstood. It is NOT a symbolic action but has a philosophical reason behind it. Some of it to do with mans psychlogical nature
2006-07-04 18:07:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the details, but I believe that in the old days ( I think biblical, but it could be a little afterwards), a community would celebrate a period of the year by sacrificing a goat.
A ceremony would be first and in that ceremony, all of the community badness was said to be put into the goat, so the goat was basically taking your sins and your evil into itself.
Then, when the goat was sacrificed, all of your sins and badness would go with it.
Thus the goat was the scapegoat, he was taking the blame, the heat if you will, into himself and then being killed, thus removing all of the bad from the community for another year.
I probably have some details wrong, like the time period or the like, but I think that this is the basic premise behind it.
Hope that this helps.
Buddhadan
2006-07-04 13:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by buddhadan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the escape goat Leviticus xvi, 10 upon which the sins of the people are laid and which is then let go into the wilderness. Christ is supposed to be the ultimate scapegoat taking on the entire sins of the world.
2006-07-04 14:40:01 · answer #3 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i know one answer from the bible
on the day of atonement there were actually 2 sacrifices. one was given to the fire. the other was a goat where the nation of Israel's sin was placed on by the head priest, which was then led out alive to the wilderness and supposedly released. thus, the escaped or scape goat.
according to some of my more versed friends, the goat was never actually released but escorted to a point where it was thrown alive over a cliff to die. so much for that.
2006-07-04 14:17:20 · answer #4 · answered by centurion613 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady's of the street have always been the scapegoat of society.
Abraham was ready, and willing to sacrifice his son, on an altar before God, before God stopped, him. As a result of his faith in God, his seed, fathered the Hebrew Nation.
2006-07-04 13:18:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋