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[Belsnickel]

(04-26-2016, 03:48 PM)michaelsean Wrote: That's where the mystery of the trinity comes in.  To be honest it always seemed symbolic to me, and I always wondered why God needed a symbolic sacrifice to be able to forgive us.  

I'm actually with you on this. To me, it isn't that the sacrifice had anything to do with the ability to forgive, but merely to show mankind that there was that forgiveness.