{"id":7991,"date":"2015-08-09T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T21:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7991"},"modified":"2015-08-09T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T21:57:53","slug":"no-worship-without-sacrifice-skin-in-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/no-worship-without-sacrifice-skin-in-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"NO WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE (Skin in the Game)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xap1\/v\/t1.0-9\/11822823_10153241867223375_5503090427814801080_n.jpg?oh=ea13e2a620efd096ae25a18389765cf8&amp;oe=56804828\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"fbPhotoPageCaption\" class=\"fbPhotosPhotoCaption\" tabindex=\"0\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*G&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:45}\"><span class=\"hasCaption\">NO WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE (Skin in the Game)<br \/>\nThis is a picture of a church altar in Maaloula (St Sergius\/Mar Sarkis) I saw a few decades ago, with a striking feature: it has a drain for blood. This altar came from a reconverted pagan temple used by early Christians. Pre Nicea (4th C) Christians recycled altars. Altar in Arabic\/Aramaic is still Mazba7 from &#8220;DB7=ritual slaying by cutting the gutt<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ural vein&#8221;. And Korban is still used for sacrament (the Semitic word for sacrifice).<\/p>\n<p>Well, in the Mediterranean pagan world, no worship without sacrifice. The gods did not accept cheap talk. This also applied to the Temple of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow Christianity removed the idea of such sacrifice under the notion that the Christ sacrificed himself for others; but there is still a simulacrum with wine representing blood, at the close of the ceremony flushed in the piscina (the drain).<\/p>\n<p>So in a Judeo-Christian place of worship, the focal point, where the priest stands, symbolizes Skin in the Game. The notion of belief without tangible proof is not existent in history.<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 9:22 &#8221; And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.&#8221; (et omnia paene in sanguine mundantur secundum legem et sine sanguinis fusione non fit remissio)<\/p>\n<p>(Credit Elisabeth Thoburn)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NO WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE (Skin in the Game) This is a picture of a church altar in Maaloula (St Sergius\/Mar Sarkis) I saw a few decades ago, with a striking feature: it has a drain for blood. This altar came from a reconverted pagan temple used by early Christians. Pre Nicea (4th C) Christians recycled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[1052,603,460],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-christianity","tag-religion","tag-skin-in-the-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}