11-10-2010, 10:58 PM
(05-19-2009 02:28 PM)Strefanash Wrote: [ -> ]Innocence therefore comes not from the moral state of the person but as a reified essence of the blood itself.
This turns the blood of christ into a magical essence, the cross into a totem. Thus the effectiveness and the meaning of the death of christ becomes obscured with a superstitious grovelling reverence fore the physical components of the thing
This is pure idolatry.
Mind you, I have seen this one many times. The question "have you been brought to understand and accept that the death of christ is a sacrifice whereby you are no longer required to be punished for your sin?" becomes "have you been washed in the blood, brother?", twisted in a naively literalistic and superstitous manner. (of course if we are of a superspiritual mindset we would prefer to answer "amen" to the second question rather than think and realize we have never grapsed the significance implied in the first)
All of this makes me wonder why they despise medieval catholics, for this teaching is a pure example of medieval catholic superstition
This is a great post. I love this forum.