According to Leviticus 1:8-9 the smell of burning head, fat and entrails is a "sweet savour unto the LORD." I think I would find the smell quite disgusting. Why would God find it sweet?
2007-01-31 22:52:26 · 7 answers · asked by Rabble Rouser 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To everyone who keeps telling me that offerings aren't done anymore because of old testament new testament issues: That is fine. Nobody does it anymore, but the question remains why was it needed back then, why was it sweet then and not anymore. Did god just go through a phase? Did he loose his taste for burning blood and fat?
2007-01-31 23:10:39 · update #1
what the christians are saying is God changed his mind in the NT.
You will get a lot of this.
2007-01-31 23:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the Old Testament, animal sacrifices were a representation of the true future sacrifice of Jesus. These Old Testament animal sacrifices were not able to cleanse anyone of their sins (Heb. 10:4). Yet, they were offered as a predictive representation. In other words, they were a type, a representation, a picture of the final and real sacrifice that was to occur when Jesus died on the cross bearing our sins in His body (1 Pet. 2:24).
In the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve sinned, God covered them with animal skins (Gen. 3:21). This was the beginning of the animal sacrifice system and it was instituted by God. it is also God who is the one who fulfilled this sacrificial requirement by becoming one of us (John 1:1,14), bearing our sins in His body on the cross (1 Pet. 2:24), and cleansing us of our sins (1 John 1:7). All of the Old Testament sacrifices pointed ahead to the real one offered by Jesus. This way, the Old Testament saints could, by faith, trust in God's provision: "The just shall live by faith," (Hab. 2:4), and "Then he [Abraham] believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness," (Gen. 15:6).
So, it really wasn't that the animals were dying for anyone's sins. They simply were a type of the true sacrifice made by Christ.
2007-02-01 07:11:40 · answer #2 · answered by Sternchen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look beyond the literal meaning of the words and at the words around what you are referring to and you will understand what God means. It is not the smell of burning meat that he finds sweet, but the sacrifice itself that is pleasing to God. The proper Christian life is a life of sacrifice. By sacrifice I am not talking about killing, cutting up and burning animals, because God was never happy with animal sacrifice. The Jewish form of sacrifice led up to the sacrifice made by our Lord Jesus Christ. The law was given to show mankind that humankind needed Jesus and the sacrifice that he made in order to regain full fellowship with God. Christian sacrifice is service to God through service to mankind. Jesus said that when we serve the least and most desperate human beings, then we serve him.
2007-02-01 07:03:18 · answer #3 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the old testament, God required Adam, Abraham, Moses, etc, all the way up till the new testament to put up altars and sacrifice rams and people for Him.
Strange how in the new testament there is no mention of sacrifrices done unto Him.The god of the old testament is pure evil. To appease Him they had to offer sacrifices.
New testament god is different God.
2007-02-01 06:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by William G 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
This passage speaks of our Honoring GOD thru animal sacrifice. That is an Old Testament custom and was done away with in Acts after the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of JESUS CHRIST, the SON of GOD! He is our sacrificial lamb. Have a great day.
Eds
2007-02-01 07:05:34 · answer #5 · answered by Eds 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you never been to a Barbecue?
Get out of the Old Testament. This is what Jesus came here to save us from.
Even Jewish people do not do animal sacrifices anymore.
2007-02-01 06:57:05 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sacrifice is what God found to be sweet. The burning of the meat was the sacrifice representative of our sins in the OT, and God found it pleasing that man was willing to sacrifice his finest animals as a blood covering for their sin. that's why he found the aroma "sweet".
2007-02-01 10:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋