Wasn't Jesus Just Another Human Sacrifice To Appease God?

Question

That's what I always thought, ever since I learned about the Christians killing all the Aztec (when I was 12yrs old) because they "sacrificed human beings to appease God", and I was taught on Sunday that Jesus "gave his life" so we may be saved.

Moreover the Spanish Christians then stole the Aztecs' gold images of their Gods, melted them down and sent them to Rome where they were fashioned into gold images of God.

I never thought Christianity was any different than a lot of other ancient superstitious foolishness celebrating a brutal torture human sacrifice to God as its central theme.

Aren't these glaring facts obvious to anyone else?

Answer 1

Nail on the head. Or in the wrist, I should say.

"Jesus" is only a late entry in a long list of "Dying and Resurrecting" gods. See Attis, Adonis, Osiris, Dionysus, etc etc. These gods typically symbolized the sun, which was thought to die and be reborn every day and/or every year. Hence Christianity is on the old pagan cycle, with "Christ" crucified at the Spring Equinox and born "again" on the Solstice 9 months later. Often in the rites of these gods a human representative was chosen, ceremonially robed and treated with all the respect due a god, and then barbarously slain at the end of a given period. Sometimes he was hung on a tree. Sometimes his flesh and blood was sacramentally consumed. The legend of Christ represents this in its entirety.

There was also a similar custom of "Driving out Death," typified by the Jewish ritual of the scapegoat, in which a goat was symbolically burdened with the "sins" of the people and then driven into the wilderness. (This is why Jesus is symbolized as the "Lamb of God.") The savages had invented a God to protect and provide for them; when He failed to make rain for them (e.g.) when they needed it, they developed the notion that they had "sinned," and that their God was angry with them. Hence all these practices of symbolically getting rid of sin by appeasing God with a stand-in sacrifice.

Answer 2

It might appear that Jesus was a human sacrifice, Tool Bar, but...:

When our planet's first ruler disobeyed God, he lost his right to govern his domain. No human or angel could assume his domain.

The Bible calls Jesus the "last Adam" That only worked because a higher order, God Himself, must assume human form, live victoriously over Satan's temptations, and die as a substitute for us.

Because death passed to all men though Adam's sin, all will live again through Christ's righteousness. They will be divided into two groups, one saved, the other lost.

Concerning the Aztecs, there were about 50,000,000 Indians who were killed outright or through slavery in the Americas. The conquistadors first read the REQUIREMENTO, in either Spanish or Latin, explaining they must receive Jesus and Mary, or suffer the consequences. Because they did not understand, they were either killed or enslaved. Kinda like Islam did to the Mediterranean area.

God foretold great problems in His Bible, yes, Christians made a worse mess of their commission than the Jews did. Yet God exists, and He left us one more clue to His plan to save this planet. It was hidden in a "last day" Bible code, unlocked at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm

Blessings and peace, One-Way

Answer 3

You misunderstood the lesson. It was the Aztecs that did the ritual killings. They sacrificed and burned people alive to appease their Gods.

The Spanish killed them over abomination. They saw in their prejudices that it was murder, therefore they must die. Granted it was narrow minded.

How does genocide happen?

Uneducated people form their own conclusions and the act on misconceptions and assumptions. Just as you didn't check your facts first and you posted blasphemy without second thought.

Jesus did a lot of hard work and dedicated His life to humanity and willingly gave His life so that His would be the last sacrifice. God did this to attempt to put an and to the violence. It was man who made the conscience decision to murder a race. Not God who commanded it.

Answer 4

Killing in the name of Jesus, is that a song by some band called Rage Against the Machine?'

Yeshua bar Josef was an incarnate ascended master who came to put an end to the need for the dark magics of Blood sacrifice by unwilling victims. A wonderful allegory for this is the "Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis. There is a Mighty Mighty Boss Tones song from "Chasing Amy" I heard again yesterday in a video store that explains the Christ sacrifice rite far simpler than this hack ever could.

Answer 5

If God needs human sacrifices, then I very clearly and consciously CHOOSE NOT to have that god. The ancient cultures, then, sacrificed in human error to give up their brothers and sisters. What if God never asked for that, but in our misapprehension, we just think He did. What a horrible error.
Something to consider, in the Book of Genesis of the King James Bible, Abraham believes he has been asked to do just such a thing. He thinks he has been asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac, his only son (in actuality, he does have another son, Ishmael, but that's another story). Abraham takes Isaac up a mountain, builds an altar, ties Isaac to it, and is ready to bring down the knife when an angel comes in with a message not to do this. Literally taken it says that God now sees that Abraham's loyalty to Him is so great that He will be a trustworthy servant because he would have sacrificed his son for Him when asked to do so. But I think on a deeper human level, Abraham realized that this is not what God requires, and this idea hit him so clearly that it prevented him from sacrificing his son.
It clearly says throughout the Bible that God does not require sacrifices of any kind, but rather a clean and pure heart, sacrificing material desires instead and seeking higher desires.

In re-examining the purpose of the crucifixion, Jesus laid down his own life to make a point. Jesus had a higher way of living to share with everybody, and he never fought back physically against those that disagreed with him, or were unaccepting of what he brought to share. This led to his crucifixion, because he never fought back with the common tools of fighting back. It says in the Bible that his purpose was worked out for all time when he was resurrected from the dead, anyway. Even though he was killed, he lived again.
It is human error in turning Christianity to fit their human desires for blood, and gold and whatever else, and would make it seem like Christianity is contradictory and foolish, when only one has to dig a little more deeply than what is being humanly presented in error to find the truth.

Answer 6

Before we can answer this question, can you really know who was Jesus. We are made to believe everything said and written by the Church or the churchmen.
How about other independent views. To me I can analyse that the historical man named Jesus was a kind and simple man conveniently used by a mastermind to advanced the interest of a group, manipulation of this kind occurred from time immemorial until today. He had been engineered to take the rap and thus created that illusion that he was, to some God and to others, son of God, to perpetuate the mirth of that glorious sacrifice of God for the good of men more than two thousand years ago. This is barbaric and befits an age of brutal savagery. With a clear mind, can you accept that God has to let a group of men to murder one of his fellowmen in a long and gruesome torture to be proclaim as son of God who has to be sacrificed in his name to cleanse the sin of man while at that very time and place committing that same sinful act of killing an innocent man as a sacrifice for humanity. If anyone believe this, he is no better than the Satan whom the Churchmen had us believed is evil. Where is his sanity?
The rest is for you to form your own judgement of man, God and Satan.

Answer 7

yes, they definitely are. I don't like the hypocracy I find in a lot of religions. Does not mean that they are all wrong, but if there was sacrifice in your religions past, and your religion has grown past that phase, then be honest... hanging and burning people in the name of your god is part of the Christian heritage and it is still practiced today when a group of homophobic men beat up soft boy in the name of Jesus to get rid of the homosexual devil within. This is sad...
I am pagan. I am of Celtic descent. We sacrificed to the gods and dedicated our battles to them. I am not proud of that moment, but i know it happened for a reason. Too bad we did not beat Rome the second time around.

Answer 8

If you see it like this you will have great difficulty in understanding it, the types of human sacrifice you have mentioned are not the same as that of Christ,His was a voluntary sacrifice and He gave His life willingly for a sacred purpose, not to appease a vengeful God but to free us from the bondage to sin.

Answer 9

No, no, no. Jesus did not die to please God. He died to remove eternal condemnation all humankind were assured of. Again, terrible atrocities have been committed in the name of God by people who are " christians" in name only whereas they represent hordes of hell. Like other plunderers of their day, the Spaniards who plundered Aztec's gold, killing them in the process, used the latter's savageness, of murdering their infants as human sacrifice to a bloody god, as a cover to satiate their lust for gold. This rapaciousness was used to plunder. steal and rob the militarily weaker races by Europeans who had an insatiable greed for certain commodities in short supply in Europe but abundant else where.

Answer 10

curiously you have forgotten, or by no skill knew, relating to the penalty of sin. There has merely been one sacrifice "sufficient" to cleanse sin continuously. comprehend it?? -no person incredibly does. to look for an answer to a minimum of something you ought to by no skill probable understand would be a problematic job for you. it quite is obviously displaying already. "faith" could be a stupid word. It merely skill what you have self assurance. The Aztecs believed in some pagan god. What do you have faith it? I certainly wish, on your sake, which you faith isn't wrapped up on your intelligence. it can be a "sin" so you might burn in hell merely when you consider which you have been too clever to have faith God.