Human sacrifice to gods

[Chas]

Theologically this is referred to as "substitutionary atonement". Once you accept that there is a sin / guilt problem then there has to be a mechanism for god's judgment to be "satisfied"

Yes, yes, yes!

This is precisely why I have (slightly) more respect for fundies than cherry-pickers.  The fundies are morons who think that absurd myths are real but at least they are fully cognizant of the fact that without those myths the whole story collapses like a house of cards.  Without the "fall of man" the whole fucking jesus story is meaningless.

They were once apocalyptic Jews who thought the end was immanent. Then it didn't happen ... not when the temple was destroyed, not when Jerusalem was destroyed. So, now what ? Invent something. "Salvation". The role of a messiah was never to save anyone from sin. They invented the "fall" to keep the new cult going. So they invented "original sin". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin

I think you meant imminent.