Not exact matches
So if Andrea Yates was not hatefully murdering her children in the tub, but thought she was
sacraficing them to God, or at least to the voices in her head she believed to be God
then shouldn't she have been rewarded for her faith as Abraham was instead of convicted for her convictions?
If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor»
then the actual event of eating of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom
sacrafice from some savior which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.
But if asked in general,
then it's an easy answer: crucifixion means the redeption
sacrafice that God the father made to redeem mankind from the sin that Adam had passed on to all his children through the eating of the forbidden fruit.
If this is just going to be in a sitting room that is not used too often
then I'd
sacrafice some comfort:).