Posted by Ginny Tosken on March 21, 1999 at 12:59:46 {MWyyC89S7ssMg}:
Last night I watched "Biography" about Clint Eastwood on A&E. I started thinking of his movie, "A Perfect World," in which a little JW boy is kidnapped on Halloween.
This started me thinking about the whole idea of the ransom, as in Jesus' ransom sacrifice. I had never stopped to really think about it before. If Jesus paid his life as a ransom, who was the kidnapper?
I mused that "ransom" need not involve a kidnapper. It can be a price paid for redemption. But still, who demanded this price?
I thought of the phrase, 'we were sold into sin.' Who sold us? How much did he get in the bargain?
The more I thought about it, the less sense this whole concept made. Where did this whole idea of propitiating gods with sacrifice come from anyway? If the Aztec ritual of human sacrifice was barbaric, why is it noble within a Judeo-Christian context?
Did Jehovah receive this ransom payment? If so, why did he sell us out in the first place?
Ginny