Acceptable sacrifice

Man, the created, as his Creator, can conceive of and make sacrifice. The creature however can not sacrifice for, only to, his creator and the creator would never sacrifice to, but only for, the creature. Our human behavior patterns are often this way, holy in that they are similar to our Creator’s ways but from the inferior position of the created being. If we error on this point, failing to submit to the reality of creation, God as creator, man as created, we insult Him and offer the sacrifice of fools. God defines the acceptable sacrifice to him; we should comply. He then provides for us an acceptable sacrifice, Christ, which we have no right to demand nor could we even imagine left to ourselves. Christ then becomes the sacrifice to God as the perfect atoner and for man as savior. This could be a subtle argument for Christ being totally God and totally man; One who could sacrifice to God and for man.