I heard that early christians used real lambs blood, anyone know about this?

Answer 1

Ever hear of a "scapegoat"? Every year they would choose one goat from a flock and punish it for all of their wrongdoings by casting it out into the desert to die a long horrible death. They felt that all of their "sins" would then be forgotten like the scapegoat.

Answer 2

They did ritual sacrifices of 'clean' animals to God, so it wasn't just lambs, but also goats and cattle.*Spookshow Baby was pretty close to the mark.It states in Leviticus 16 the qualifications for a scapegoat, however a goat is not a lamb, it is a kid, and Leviticus 23 states that 2 lambs were to be sacrificed in a peace offering.And as the majority of early Christians were Jews to begin with, the Old Testament citings of sacrificial lambs are applicable.*

Answer 3

No, they did not. But they did as Jews. All the earliest Christians were Jews.

Exodus 29:38-39 – God commands the Israelites to “offer” (poieseis) the lambs upon the altar. The word “offer” is the same verb Jesus would use to institute the Eucharistic offering of Himself.

The Roman Catacombs, the burial place of the Christians who were thrown to the lions, provide accurate physical evidence of the beliefs and practices of the early Church OF THE FIRST THREE CENTURIES, there is no mention of lambs blood used, but paintings of Him holding a lamb can be seen. (The Good Shepherd)

Answer 4

The name "Christians" began after JESUS CHRIST, and the real lambs blood was used in the Old Testament by Israelites.
Our lamb is JESUS CHRIST
Read the Bible
Hebrews 9:11-14
11But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,[e] then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. 13For if the sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and bulls and with the ashes of a heifer sanctifies[f] for the purification of the flesh, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[g] conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

Answer 5

All these answers are good ones. One correction though, to Serenity Nova, you may want to speak to your pastor. Lambs blood was also used as a way to wash away sin, not just at Passover. This is where we get the term "washed in the blood of the lamb" when referring to Jesus washing away our sins.

You can do a word search at any online Bible site to see the different ways in which lambs blood was used.

Answer 6

used real lambs blood for what? i know there is a Bible story about Egypt and the plaques and to stop one of them, Moses' people had to put an 'X' on their doors with lambs blood so the plague would pass them...

but Spookshow Baby is wrong with what she said, it wasnt once a year and it usually wasnt a goat, and it wasnt because they thought it would wash away their sins. It was required that once a week (i think) a sacrifice was to be made to God as a thankyou for providing them with the lambs, goats, cows etc in the first place.

Answer 7

Early Christians, no. Lambs Blood was used in the Jewish Temple. Passover, Day Of Atonement,exct..

Answer 8

I have never heard of this and a quick scan of the Internet did not come up with any hits.

However there is real evidence that the early Christians believed in the real presence of Christ, the Lamb of God, in the consecrated bread and wine: http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/father/a5.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Christians never did that.. That was a Jewish Custom. Christians have always used Wine to represent the True Lamb, Jesus Christ, just as Jesus Himself taught.

Answer 10

Yes, the Old Testament was chock full of animal sacrifice. Apparently that is why Christ was crucified--so that no more blood needed to be shed.

-A Pagan and Ex-Christian.

Answer 11

nine_tailed_fox777,
You might be right. It wouldn't be beyond imagination to think that the Hebrew Christians still observed Passover at the appointed time. But not to drink the blood.