There is a significant difference between "not ... because" and "not ... as if".
(not-A-as-if-B) implies that both A and B are false.
(not (A because B)) allows A to be true, it denies that B is the reason for A.
The bishop's words "... nicht deswegen..." indicate that he was not denying that Christ died for the sins of men, but rejecting a specific explanation of the atonement.
Sanctus from Mass II, recorded at the (private) Chapel of the Holy Family in Lyndonville, VT, in October 2007. From the CD "Blessed is the ordinary" by "Stepping Stone Chant Project": CD: http://cdbaby.com/cd/steppingstonechant
The speaker in the video is the Baptist minister Shadrach Meshach Lockridge (1913-2000), and the video is produced by the Evangelical Protestant media house Igniter Media.
Are you aware that the translation of the bishop's first sentence contains an error? Did gloria.tv make this translation, or did it come from some other source?
Christ "did not die for the sins of the people as if God had needed a sacrificial offering or something like a scapegoat" - the archbishop said.
However, the bishop used the conjunction weil, which means "because", not "as if".
So the sentence should be:
Christ "did not die for the sins of the people because God had needed a … [Más]
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