Jiang contrasts the ransom theory with the modern simplified explanation that Jesus died to redeem humanity from sin, arguing that the older theory is the one Dante is actually responding to.
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Modern Christianity
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"finish the line comedy and then when he finished it he's like my mission is done i can now rest and be with god..."
"a deal with satan what can you offer to satan that would allow him to free us the answer is his only son okay..."
"...made this move. Okay. The Byzantine Empire becomes the birthplace of modern Christianity. Okay. Constantine the Great is the first Christian Roman Emperor. He..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Byzantium survives for a thousand years because it solves Rome's political problem.
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