Who made up the law of blood atonement?

Question

Who decided that Jesus had to die brutally to save mankind. If God is God, why couldn't he come up with a better plan that didn't involve murder?
Please, no condesending holier-than-thou statements, just give me well-thoughtout intelligent answers. Thanks...

Answer 1

Murder is what makes the bible intriguing. notice how all throughout the bible there is murder and chaos, lying and adultery, stealing and hate? if it is gods word, why does he proclaim so much hate? god didnt have to send a flood to kill people, he didnt have to have the red sea cave in on people pursuing moses either..

Answer 2

Blood atonement, or human sacrifices for the sins of man, has been practiced all over the world from early Sumer to Peru, Mexico, and Hawaii among others.

This had been a dominant teaching in the Middle East, thousands of years before Jesus of Nazareth. The early Christians, especially Paul, have merely transposed this teaching on to Jesus and made him the mythic-hero of earlier times.

Answer 3

God made up the plan. It was the best plan because the life is in the blood.

The writers for the TV series 'Angel' knew that. They had Spike tell someone that the life is in the blood in one of their episodes.

Jesus's brutal death was a once-for-all sacrifice to atone for sin (to all those who accept it as an atonement and covering for their sin).

Prior to that many animals had to be sacrificed everyday.

As I write this Jewish priests are being trained to make those sacrifies again and animals are being sought to be the sacrifices. The materials have been gathered to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. They are just waiting for God to destroy the Mosque which sits on their Holy ground.

A life needed to be sacrificed because God made life and it is precious. It is a sacrifice to give up life.

God lost man's fellowship when Adam & Eve disobeyed Him. Man needs to lose somethng in order to restore that relationship. It was life that man needed to lose. God did not ask Adam and Eve to die but rather chose His Son to die in their place because it needed to be perfect life that was sacrifced.

The lambs, bullocks, goats, and birds that were sacrificed were never enough because they were not perfect. Jesus Christ had to shed his blood because he was fully God and fully man at the same time and he lived a perfect sinless life even though he was tempted.

Answer 4

God's justice is perfect. Notice Psalms 37; 28

28 For the LORD loves the just
and will not forsake his faithful ones.
They will be protected forever,
but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;

He told the Israelites that an eye for an eye , tooth for a tooth was needed to be fair.

That may sound cruel in today's " anything goes" society, but look at our crime rate too.

Jesus' perfect sacrifice had to be paid as a ransom to make up for Adam's mistake. Romans 5; 12

I think his plan was brilliant. Not only did He uphold his own justice, but He made a way for us to be reconciled to him. Jesus lost his human body, but was rewarded for his faith and integrity to his Father.

Answer 5

It's a complicated answer--yes, there are roots in Pre-christian religions and in Pauls' treatment of the crucifixion in the Bible, but the most developed "orthodox" atonement theology was developed by Anselm. basing it on the relationship between serfs adn masters, he created a theological analogy to describe how human sin needed to be paid for, either by the sinner (all humanity ) or a surrogate (Christ). The surrogate, as earlier theologians established, ahd to be both fully human and fully divine to amke it work--only a human could make the payment, but only a divine creature could have the moral purity to be sinless. Hence, the God man=Jesus. Like I said, check out Anselm 's Cur Deus Homo (Why God became MAn), and Also check out _The Satisfied Life_ by Jane McAvoy for a feminsit critique of Anselm. she uses medevial mystics to develop alternative understandings of atonement.

peace

Answer 6

In order for Satan's dominion over mankind to be destroyed, Jesus had to permit himself to be horribly abused and killed.

Here's why:

God put Satan on notice in the beginning, that he would send a savior to redeem mankind. He didn't tell Satan exactly how this would be done, by whom, or when it would happen.

Even though Satan was given the power of death over mankind, Satan could legally put to death only those who had committed sin.

Over the centuries, Satan was in the habit of having all the holy men and prophets of God put to death, just in case one of them might be the Messiah. And since they were all sinners, he was justified in doing so.

After several thousand years, this became "the norm".

Then "in the fullness of time" Jesus arrived.

Satan couldn't tell if Jesus was the Messiah or not, but he had a hunch, so he decided to have his minions (the Jews and Romans) crucify him ... and do it in such a brutal fashion that any sensible Messiah would choose to quit, or "say uncle" before he achieved his mission objective.

This is a common strategy in both warfare and wrestling. Cause your opponent so much pain that he quits, simply to make the pain stop.

But Jesus was the God-man, and he got his strength and endurance from the Holy Spirit, so nothing could prevent him from achieving his goal, which was death on the cross.

The moment Jesus died, Satan was judged for murdering an innocent and sinless man, who also happened to be the only begotten Son of God.

Found guilty, Satan was stripped of all that he had gained from Adam's sin ... power and dominion over mankind and over the earth ... and left in powerless desolation.

At his resurrection, all power in heaven and on earth was subsequently awarded to Jesus, our God and our redeemer.

Later, after God made proper use of them, both the Jews and the Romans would also be destroyed and scattered to the four winds.

It's difficult to say if it was God or Satan who determined all that happened, but it was certainly God's will that was done, in the end.

The rest is theological history.

Answer 7

Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Of couse God would give you a better answer if you asked Him.

Answer 8

Blood was needed because God required it in the Old Testament by the sacrificing of animals before there was Jesus to forgive our sins. So Jesus became the perfect atoning sacrifice because he was without sin and that is why we no longer have to shed the blood of animals.

And people say the Bible contradicts itself!

Answer 9

The truth is there was a profit and his name was Jesus. The Romans and the Jews did not like his teachings and they killed him.

Man then made up the whole part about being the son of God and rising from the dead to impress the poor and ignorant into joining their new found religion.

It has happened since the beginning of man. There was no Pandora or Zeus either.

Answer 10

The Bible has the answer to your question. Below are some references that will show why suffering took place......

Mark 10:39 (New Living Translation

Then Jesus told them, “You will indeed drink from my bitter cup and be baptized with my baptism of suffering

Luke 22:15 (New Living Translation)

15 Jesus said, “I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins.

John 18:11 (New Living Translation)

11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?”

2 Corinthians 4:10 (New Living Translation)

10 Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.


Hebrews 2:10 (New Living Translation)
10 God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory. And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation.

Answer 11

God made up the blood of atonement. I do not know why he made it up, because we will never fully know the mind of God. As far as Jesus is concerned, there are more than 200 messianic prophecies that talk about the Messiah and his qualifications from Genesis to Malachi. Jesus is the only one who fulfilled them.