Sentences with phrase «as a scapegoat victim»

What does His death as a scapegoat victim reveal to us?

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The Cross as Revelation Girard speaks of the Gospels as texts which reveal the scapegoat mechanism, because they are written from the point of view of the victim, not of the persecuting crowd.

If he committed the crime, and in the same time claimed innocence by playing victim, using his race as a scapegoat, hoping to be set free, and yet put his faith in Christ... his sin could not be forgiven, becaue he did not confess it and acknowledge it publicly.

And Jesus didn't just enter into scapegoating violence to show us it was bad, but to destroy it from the inside (which, as the only truly innocent victim in history, only He was able to do).