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Interesting.
It made me think that the church leaders could have adopted it as a tactic to scare the unwashed into belief and adoration. (cynical, yes )
This would have been far from what Christ taught and lived, i/e that the poor and uneducated know as much about right and wrong as the elite and truly want to create a better, more fair world.
I think the traditional teachingis valid. That, in dying on the cross Christ sacrificed his own faultlessness to prove to us that we must re invent ourselves casting off our rationalizations of position and accomplishment in favor of a more simple honest existence. The beauty of it all being that, the resultant rebirth, is a greater and more real being.
Of course this parallels the agrarian plowing under of the crops so they may be reborn the next spring.
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