The story of human sacrifice works as Bronze Age morality, but it doesn’t translate well. The gospel imagines both a profound sacrifice and a miraculous resurrection, but you can’t have both. If there’s a resurrection, then it wasn’t much of a sacrifice, and if it is to remain a sacrifice, then you can’t have a resurrection. Anyway, why the sacrifice? If humans need forgiveness, God could just ... forgive. That’s how we do it, and indeed God forgives several times in the Bible.
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