Medieval explanation Jiang rejects: Jesus dies as payment to Satan to release human slaves.
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ransom theory
Medieval explanation Jiang rejects: Jesus dies as payment to Satan to release human slaves.
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Origen's explanation, as Jiang presents it, that Christ's death ransoms humanity from Satan and transfers human bondage to God.
Jiang rejects ransom theory because it makes Jesus buy humans from Satan only to turn them into slaves of Jesus.
Origen's ransom theory says humanity became Satan's property after the Fall and God redeemed humans by offering his own life, tricking Satan because God cannot truly be killed.
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"...die okay does that make sense so this is called a ransom theory and this is how during danny's time most people understood why..."
"we must worship jesus and danny's like no no no that can't possibly be right okay god would not come to free us so..."
"important is that people learn for themselves eventually you'll figure out being a slave sucks you know what it may seem as though watching..."
"...Trinity. By the name Origen, his explanation is something called the Ransom Theory. All right? And the theory goes like this. When we were..."
"...blueprint for the Catholic Church. All right? This idea of the Ransom Theory. All right."
"...the original sin, and then Origen suggested the idea of the ransom theory. Okay? God had to redeem us, ransom us, from Satan. Now,..."
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