If Jesus died for the sins of all people, Why?

Question

Why God used to command jews to sacrifice animals? , will God command people of something useless?

Obviously most of the answerer don't understand their religion... According to Christianity Jesus died for ALL people starting from Adam. So jews didn't need to sacrifice any animals.

Answer 1

I think it is you who do not understand Christianity and thus critique what you are woefully ignorant of.

You ignore the progressive revelation and the linear time line of history. In the OT the sacrifice of animals were in place of human death. Blood must atone for blood, but the blood of animals cannot perfectly atone for human sin. But at least the Bible tells us why we have to sacrifice animals. In Islam it has no theological meaning other than pointing back to Abraham who tried to kill Isaac (not Ishmael) in obedience to God's testing of his faith. Also, the sacrifice of animals point to a more perfect sacrifice, the atoning death of Jesus (the Lamb of God) that would perfectly redeem sinners. That's why Christians do not offer bloody sacrifices to atone for sins, nor do penance. The debt has been paid by Christ who imputes His righteousness to us. The sacrifices in the OT were not useless, nothing that God does in useless. There was a spiritual reality when the people laid hands on the animal and later killed the animal. But the point is that these sacrificies were a shadow of things to come.

Bottom line: You have a lot more to learn about Christianity before you even think about trying to discredit or smear the faith. Do yourself a favour and stop embarrassing yourself! It does not look good on you that Christians have to keep pointing our your ignorance!

Answer 2

God commanded the Jews to sacrifice animals BEFORE Jesus came. Jesus was the final and ultimate sacrifice. Jews no longer have to sacrifice. God sent Jesus because sacrificing animals was not good enough to atone for mankind's sins.

Answer 3

Because there had to be a shedding of blood for sins that was committed. Jesus paid the total price for sin by making the ultimate sacrifice, and that was Himself. A one time deal for all of mankind.

3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me. 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure........
8 Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them" (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God..

Hebrews 10:3-6, 8-12

The reason why Jews still sacrifice today is because they don't believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah (Son of God). Once the Jews have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior then they will begin to understand that there is no need to sacrifice an animal once a year(tradition) for the sins of the Jewish people.

Answer 4

Are you speaking of the Old Testament? That was the Old Covenant- We are not under the old but the New Covenant through Jesus Christ- He was the ONE sacrifice for sin, so no longer is the blood of an animal needed, for Jesus shed His own blood and it was enough to cover every sin in the world ever committed. That is why salvation through Him is sealed with a promise of forgiveness, past, present and future.

Hebrews 9:22
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

-We are now under the grace of God! Not under the law, since Christ has come.

Hebrews 10:12
But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

-And this is written to those who believe and are forgiven through Jesus Christ:
Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Answer 5

Sacrifice of animals was a proof of devotion to God. In the new Testament, there are few stories of anyone sacrificing an animal to God. Particularly once Christ was crucified and then later Ascended into Heaven. Nothing God asks of a person is useless.

Answer 6

Before Jesus came to earth as the perfect sacrifice , people were instructed to sacrifice animals and doves to God to push their sins forward another year. Their is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood.

Answer 7

The use of animal sacrifice was a forshadow of the ultimate Sacrifice which was to come...it was instituted until the Son of God was to come and fulfill all and obtain forgiveness of sin ONCE and FOR ALL.

It was a forward looking ritual that looked forward to the Coming of Christ....Jesus.

BTW, That is a good question that needs to be understood.

Answer 8

God commanded for Jews to sacrifice animals, in order to pay for their sins. God is just, so if a perfect man failed at the beginning of the earth a perfect man must not fail to pay for the one who did. Meanwhile, the price that sin pays is death, so to pay for their sins, Jews killed and sacrificed animals.

Answer 9

Jews were (and still are to a great extent) subject to laws of the Old Testament because they are God's chosen people. God deals with them in that way.
Gentiles, on the other hand, are subject to God's Grace as detailed in the New Testament. The rules are different and God deals with gentiles in a different way.

Answer 10

Since the fall of man, the basis of salvation has always been the death of Christ. No one, either prior to the cross or since the cross, would ever be saved without that one pivotal event in the history of the world. Christ's death paid the penalty for past sins of Old Testament saints and future sins of New Testament saints.
The requirement for salvation has always been faith. The object of one's faith for salvation has always been God. The psalmist wrote, "Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him" (Psalm 2:12). Genesis 15:6 tells us that Abraham believed God and that was enough for God to account it to him for righteousness (see also Romans 4:3-8). The Old Testament sacrificial system did not take away sin, as Hebrews 9:1-10:4 clearly teaches. It did, however, point to the day when the Son of God would shed His blood for the sinful human race.
What has changed through the ages is the content of a believer's faith. God's requirement of what must be believed is based on the amount of revelation He has given mankind up to that time. This is called progressive revelation. Adam believed the promise God gave in Genesis 3:15 that the Seed of the woman would conquer Satan. Adam believed Him, demonstrated by the name he gave Eve (v.20) and the Lord indicated His acceptance immediately by covering them with coats of skin (v.21). At that point that is all Adam knew, but he believed it.
Abraham believed God according to the promises and new revelation God gave him in Genesis 12 and 15. Prior to Moses, no Scripture was written, but mankind was responsible for what God had revealed. Throughout the Old Testament, believers came to salvation because they believed that God would someday take care of their sin problem. Today, we look back, believing that He has already taken care of our sins on Calvary (John 3:16; Hebrews 9:28).
What about believers in Christ's day, prior to the cross and resurrection, what did they believe? Did they understand the full picture of Christ dying on a cross for their sins? Late in his ministry, "Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day" (Matthew 16:21). What was the reaction of His disciples to this message? "Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, '‘Far be it from you, Lord; this shall not happen to you!'" (16:22). Peter, and the other disciples, did not know the full truth, yet they were saved because they believed that God would take care of their sin problem. They didn't exactly know how He would accomplish that, any more than Adam, Abraham, Moses, or David knew how, but they believed God.
Today, we have more revelation than did people living before the resurrection of Christ, we know the full picture. "God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son" (Hebrews 1:1-2). Our salvation is still based on the death of Christ, our faith is still the requirement for salvation, and the object of our faith is still God. Today for us the content of our faith is that Christ died for our sins, that He was buried, and that He rose the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).