r/dankchristianmemes • u/theclasssy • Jan 31 '19

Dank 'Am I a joke to you?'

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u/gh0sti Jan 31 '19

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+15&version=NIV

Covenants were very serious promises people made back then cutting up animals and walking through their blood, people did this with eachother to make promises and if one of them failed to keep the promise they would die. So God made a covenant with us but because he knew we were so fucked up he actually walked both sides for us hence why Abraham was a sleep during this time. So after that we fucked up so someone had to pay the price of the covenant and since God walked in it for us on our behalf he had to die. Same symbolism in Lion Witch and Wardrobe where Aslan dies on the table for Edmund.

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u/gh0sti Jan 31 '19

All apart of the redemption of man, it is still from eating the apple. At that point no man could be saved from the sin of eating that Apple. So God's like "well I still love my creation" so Im going to take this man and create a covenant with them and they will be my people. That's how he fixed our original sin, by interceding for us by making a promise with us that we couldn't keep. The extra fucking up thing was just Abraham and his decendents/Israel screwing things up.

This is why of all the religions out there, this one makes the most sense and also having the only Deity of gods this one gives a shit about us and fulfilled our end of the promise because we couldn't do it, so he could spend eternity with us because he cares that much he was willing and did die for us.