Frail, weak and errant humans have bound and limited the spiritual without and beyond bounds into bound and limited simpleton terms, stubbornly to their detriment, despite having been told that ‘what is bound on earth is bound in heaven’.

Ransom and bargains of substitution are downright Sicilian.  Sacrifice is the crudest human understanding of spirituality possible.

Known and demonstrated misinterpretations have stood in error for two thousand years, still standing stubborn stead.

 
And virtually no one with even a smidgen of conformist group-think fear can fathom Jesus’ concerted and sustained attack on the religious establishment ‘of the day’ as the feed-back loop for all time that it is.  What hope is there that ‘the kingdom is at hand’ could have spiritual resonance?