Why does God need a blood sacrafice?

Question

It says a number of times in the bible that God needed a blood sacrafice to remove sin. It also says he was upset about animal sacrafices so he gave his only son, Jesus. If God was such a loving and understanding God then why would he need any sacrafice at all?

Answer 1

Because the Christian God is a MYTH!

Answer 2

Blood represents life. Sacrafice is to give up something meaningful to you and at the time animals was a valuable commonity. So a sacrafice by the individual was made to pay for their sins as a way of showing their repentence. Today a sacrafice that might be more appropriate would be to give your car away. Thats a sacrifice you make, not the car. The same applies to the old testement. The individual made the sacrifice, not the animal because animals are considered not to have a spirit (which i disagree with). The reason God was angry with some animal sacrifices at the time was because they were not sacrificing the best they had. Instead they were sacrificing the sick or unwanted animals and that isn't a sacrafice at all. It would be the same as you giving away the junker car that is lucky to run instead of sacraficeing the new car you bought yesturday.
Jesus was the ultimate and final need to have a blood sacrifice. Blood is an atonement (at-one...ment) for sin and allows the individual to be close and one with God again,,, since God can't have anything to do with sin and must seperate Himself from it. So there has to be a sacrafice of blood (life) to cover the sins (death) and bring the sinner back to God's presence. Christ paid the price for all/everyones sin if you sincerely ask for forgiveness and repent (turn away from sin with the intent not to sin again)

Answer 3

It's hard to answer the question without looking at the specific passages you are talking about. Remember, some parts of the bible are history, some literature, some commentary.

Jesus did not HAVE to die in order for our sins to be cleansed. Humanity could have listened to God's message and followed it any number of times. It didn't, so God came among us as a human man. The real true sacrifice was Jesus' ability to stay true to his mission to preach the coming of the Kingdom of God and to be faithful to God, no matter the outcome. Jesus didn't change his mind, he didn't give up, he didn't run away. Even when his life was threatened, he never denounced his message or mission. Blood in old cultures is often equated with life, so the sacrifice was Jesus' life... all the way to his death.

Very good question, btw. Would make a wonderful discussion topic, with oppurtunity for "give and take" conversation.

Answer 4

This is another area where Christians get it utterly wrong.

G-D doesn't need a THING to forgive. In fact, he doesn't even bother going through the action of forgiving, G-D already knows.

The blood sacrifice was for the person doing it. It was meant to be a blatent point -- "This is the price of sin, death came into the world." It was to make it very physical to the penetant that his sin had caused death. This is why substitutionary attonement is invalid... unless you yourself brought the sacrifice, physically, to the altar, it was invalid.

Jesus was put on a cross a little under 2000 years ago. As such, no one alive could possibly physically take him to the Temple (the only place such sacrifice was valid, oops, Christians made another mistake here) and have him put to death.

Jesus was NOT HaMosiach.

Answer 5

I don' t know that the Bible says that God was "upset" about animal sacrifices. The point is that they were only temporary. The person would have to keep coming and offering sacrifices everytime they sinned because the blood of an animal wasn't sufficient to remove the sin.

As to the need for a sacrifice, it's a lesson to us about the consequences of sin. Sin is what brings death to us and by offering a sacrifice it was made clear that there was a price to pay.

When God sent His son to die on the cross, He was the perfect sacrifice, so there is no longer a need for animal sacrifices. In order to be forgiven today, all we need to do is believe in Jesus, confess our sins, and ask for His forgiveness.

The reminder that there was a price to pay is by remembering that Jesus died for us. The fact that God is loving (but not necessarily "understanding" in the sense of He just let's us slide) is proven by the death of His son to pay the price for our sins.

Answer 6

God required blood sacrifices because it was a sign of Jesus being sent in the future. God created the world so that you and I can serve and worship him. He loves his creation that's why he sent his only Son to die on the cross for your sin. Jesus Christ died and then rose again three days later. All you have to do is accept his gift and have faith that he came. I will pray that you will make the right decisions in the future. or even now.

Answer 7

How can I understand holiness to the unholy? Purity to the impure? Sin can not exist with God. The soul that sins, that soul shall die. Blood is a representation of a souls death. Without that shedding of blood there is no way for God to forget the sin. Jesus who knew no sin became sin so that we could become the righteousness of God because of Him... That's the best way I can explain it to the lost... Jim

Answer 8

Blood for the remission of sin. Jesus replaced into the finest blood sacrifice, no diverse is needed any better, because of the actual reality Jesus fulfilled the regulation. God did not require human sacrifice. He required his human beings, at the same time as at conflict adverse to an evil usa, to completely slay all living which includes beasts and human beings.

Answer 9

Because the blood was the only way to clean people of their sins. He asked this of them to save them from judgement of sin. Sin entered through us all through Adam and his curse passed onto us. God had to send his only begotten son Jesus, because no one else was clean enough and no one else could redeem humanity but him. People were afraid of death and the righteous went to the lower compartments of the earth when they died in paradise which is seperated by a great gulf from the torture compartment for sins. When Jesus died and shed his blood, his blood was pure and his body was never corrupt. So because he did this, he annuled satan's power of death over mankind and people are no longer slaves to sin, unless they choose to. his blood made it possible for our sins to be forgiven so now we have to just pray and ask for our sins to be washed away and forgiven so we may be made into new creatures and repent, and be made perfect again as it was before the fall, and we may inherit our true destiny with God.

Answer 10

Maybe the better question is: Why does anyone need a bllod sacrifice? We needed a blood path to God and a blood relationship with God which God provided in Christ.

The truth is that man was in greater need of a blood sacrifice than God for the simple reaon that man's life is in the blood while God is eternal spirit. The incompatablity was mutual, but the ability of man, being blood, to walk after the spirit was missing as many Scriptures show.

"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise." And again, the Prophet Samuel to King Saul. "Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeyhijng the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams."

Where once the Lord dwelt in Badger skins with His commandments written in fire and resting in an Ark; He now dwells in living tents of flesh where, again by His fire, He has written His law upon our hearts that we might serve in newness of life.

The blood sacrifice of Christ hastened the fullfillment of the law handed down to Moses and established the Law of Faith in those who have been called according to His purpose from the beginning of time.

The blood sacrifice of the Lord Jesus on Calvary allowed God to write in fire on the hearts of 120 persons and start from there to create a new heaven and a new earth.

Why? So He could fellowship with us and could share His very life and nature with us.

Answer 11

I don't know, why does he say that the aroma of a burnt offering is a pleasant aroma? He's God, blood=life life for a life i guess?!?

I used to give tobacco as an offering to the earth for using it's resources. The earth doesnt need tobacco, but its a nice jesture.