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The point of Christianity is derived from the ritual logic of the Scapegoat Ritual in the Jewish Day of Atonement ceremonies. In the Scapegoat Ritual, two goats are selected:
>One goat is sacrificed to YHVH
>The other goat is symbolically imbued with the sins of the tribe and then cast out into the wilderness as an offering to Azazel (hence where we get the term "scapegoat" today)
Jesus symbolically took on the role of both goats within the crucifixion narrative, absorbing the sins of the tribe and acting as a literal human sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:2
>And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

So in order to "get" Christianity you have to buy into the ritual logic of Judaism, which states that sins have a transitive property you can symbolically imbue on a sacrifice to be absolved for.

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