If Jewish people don't believe in the New Testiment?

Question

Do they still sacrifice animals to have their sins forgiven? Serious answers only please.

Answer 1

Jews no longer sacrifice animals for the forgiveness of their sins.
The first problem facing them is that the Jews are still under the Laws of the Old Testament.
The second problem they have is that animal sacrifice is designated for one place, the Temple at Jerusalem.
Since its destruction in 70 C.E. the Jews have not had either control over the Temple Mount, nor been allowed to rebuild a temple there.

The interesting part of all this is that plans are under way to rebuild the temple, with implements for animal sacrifice already made. The finding of a red heifer in Israel heralds a day of hope for future sacrifices to be made once again at the Temple of Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount.

Answer 2

Do Jews still sacrifice animals? No. But only because the only place in the world where the animal sacrifices can be conducted is on the altar in the Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. And for the last 1940-some years, it hasn't been there.

The proof of this is found in Deuteronomy. In those chapters that review the sacrifices, the phrase "In the place that God will choose" is used, if I'm not mistaken, no less than 11 times. Before the Temple was built, the 'place' was the Tabernacle at Shiloh, a temporary structure. Once the Temple was built in Solomon's time, the place became the Temple, forever and always.

One of the messianic prophesies that is often overlooked by christians is the prophesy of the building of the Third and Final Temple in Jerusalem and the reinstitution of the sacrificial service.

Just a note. Sacrifices only atoned for inadvertant sins. Intentional sins were never atoned for on the altar. Further, it wasn't necessary to bring an animal in all cases. A poor person could bring a offering of grain meal cakes.

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Answer 3

If you'll remember, God chose the Israelites to be his "Holy People." (Holy means separate/apart.) All of the surrounding cultures practiced child/human sacrifice to their gods. The Israelite God taught His people that human sacrifice was NEVER acceptable to Him by stopping the sacrifice of Isaac. The Israelites were allowed to continue the practice with grains, oils, little critters, etc. -- but NEVER a human! The only part of the sacrifice meant for God was the aroma. If you aren't vegetarian, you might think of those sacrifices the next time you have an outdoor BBQ. Just like the meat you are eating, that was the meat the Levites ate because they had no land and could not feed their families without the sacrifices. Blood had nothing to do with the sacrifice other than the command that we are not allowed to eat even a drop of blood, therefore, it had to be totally drained from the animal.

If Jesus was to have been a proper sacrifice, his blood must have been drained and he should have been cremated in order to create a pleasing odor for God.
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Answer 4

They can't. Sacrifices could only be performed in the Temple. In 70 A.D. the temple was destroyed. The only way Jews can approach God is through the sacrificial ritual. If the accept Christ, He becomes the sacrifice to allow them to approach God. If they refuse to accept Christ, they no longer have any access to God. This is why Yom Kippur is so important to Jewish people. It is a day where they pray and try to make atonement for their sins of the past year. They are basically asking God to overlook the fact that they have no sacrifice to offer and grant them cleansing anyway. Christ said that His death and Resurrection would do away with the sacrificial system. They did not give it up willingly, but the system is gone, just like He said.

Answer 5

No. Sacrifice was only valid in the Temple, which was destroyed in 70 AD. This began the decline of Sanhedrin Judiasm and the rise of Rabbinical Judiasm. There are other passages in Torah that indicate that it is the penitent's sincere contrition and acceptance of fault and responsibility that are necessary for the purging of sin, that the sacrifice was required not for the forgiveness but to remind the penitent of the very serious cost of sin -- that sin brought death into the world. This is why substitutional atonement was not allowed -- your friend could not go to the temple to make the sacrifice for you, you yourself had to go and you yourself had to witness the death of the animal. Unless you personally placed the animal on the altar, inside the walls of the Temple, it was an invalid sacrifice.

The only people who met the first requirement regarding Jesus were the centurions who nailed him to the cross, and his death happened outside the Temple. Therefore, Jesus was an invalid sacrifice -- though human sacrifice is forbidden anyways, so even done by all of humanity simultaneously inside the temple, it'd still have been invalid.

Answer 6

As the scarifices were only to be performed at the Temple in Jerusalem, when that Temple was destroyed by the Roman general Titus in 70AD, the sacrifices stopped.

There have been some groups within Judiasm that have done some small scale animal sacrificing, such as a chicken for passover, but once the Temple was destroyed the sacrifices stops.

Answer 7

No because they would only do that at the holy of holies, and until there is a third Jewish Temple, there will be no animal sacrifice. Plus it's not socially acceptable nowadays, but most likely the most extreme orthodox jews will resume when the third jewish temple is re-built, however animal sacrifice hasn't been done in about 2,000 years.

Answer 8

For the most part, the Jewish practice of animal sacrifice stopped in the year 70 A.D., when the Roman army destroyed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, the place where sacrifices were offered. The practice was briefly resumed during the Jewish War of 132-135 A.D., but was ended permanently after that war was lost. There were also a few communities that continued sacrifices for a while after that time.

Essentially, Jews stopped offering sacrifices because they didn't have a proper place to offer them. The Torah (The Law of Moses) specifically commanded Israel not to offer sacrifices wherever they felt like it. They were only permitted to offer sacrifices in the one place that God has chosen for that purpose (see Deuteronomy 12:13-14).



Today, modern Jews believe that forgiveness for sins is obtained through repentance, prayer and good deeds. They use verses like the one found in Hosea 6:6 which says, “For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”



But both the Old and New Testaments are very clear: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement.” (Leviticus 17:11) And also, “...all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrews 9:22).



Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah, was offered up as the once-for-all sacrifice for sin. Less than a generation later the Jewish Temple was destroyed because the need for animal sacrifices no longer exists. Animal sacrifices were merely a “type” of the Perfect sacrifice, which paid the debt for the sins of mankind, both Jew and Gentile.

Answer 9

Just to put this into context, please remember that these practices developed amongst a nomadic people whose primary (and sometimes only) form of 'wealth' was their flocks. Animal sacrifice was common amongst all the peoples of the region then.

With the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, such sacrifice was no longer possible. The prayer services were substituted instead and continue to this day.

Answer 10

Many people do not believe in the New Testament or the Old Testament. It's no biggy to do the smart thing and chose Reason over primitive superstition.

As for the animal sacrifice thing, NO...that's been over for a millenia or two. That's about as ridiculous as asking if Christians still slaughter women and children of other faiths which, of course...THEY STILL DO in Afghanistan and Iraq.