Is a blood sacrifice necessary for atonement of sins?

Question

The Torah does give some examples in which atonement was procured apart from blood sacrifice. There is atonement by a cereal offering designed for poor people (Lev. 5:11-13); atonement by the burning of incense (Num. 16:46 [Hebrew 17:11]); atonement by gold (Num. 31:50).

Answer 1

With the destruction of the Temple, blood sacrifice became impossible, at least according to the official customs. Also times were changing -- animal sacrifice made a different sort of sense when the people were nomadic shepherds. Judaism has always been a dynamic, responsive religion, updating itself to the changing situations. That's why we have layers and layers of commentary.

The mistake that a lot of Christians make is to go back to the Torah and assume that it's a fixed, static text which should be interpreted literally. Jews don't do that -- even ultra-Orthodox literalism is different from Christian literalism.

The replacement of the Temple sacrifices by prayer services is one example.

Which means that Jesus didn't actually have to die. To say that he did is a very narrow and bizarre 'interpretation' of Torah.

Answer 2

The atonement for sins, in the Old Testament was by the shedding of blood - of lamb or bull.

So, yes - blood sacrifice is necessary for people to be forgiven of their sins. That ultimate sacrifice was a free gift to the whole world, by Yeshua (Jesus Christ).

The only problem is that some people are afraid of accepting free gifts!

Answer 3

Christians will say yes, blood sacrifice is necessary, and Jesus already paid the price. Hallelujah.

Baloney, blood sacrifice is not necessary for atonement of sins. Is God BOUND by any RULES? No, I think not. God can forgive who He wants, sacrifice or not. Is His forgiveness contingent upon a blood sacrifice? No, because He is not contingent upon ANYTHING. God created contingency itself, how could He ever be a slave to His own creation?

God is above and beyond our mental capacities. How can we say that He forgives only with sacrifice? He forgives, PERIOD. He need not receive any sacrifice to forgive because He needs nothing.

Answer 4

the belief of blood sacrifice for vicarious atonement (i.e. the legendary Jesus loss of life for human beings's sins) is immoral -- punishing the harmless to unfastened the responsible. yet, this is stable merchandising and marketing. The legendary tale of Jesus' crucifixion is a terrible, sadistic tale of human sacrifice. Christians also have fun it via ceremoniously eating his blood and eating his physique. it relatively is ritual vampirism and cannibalism. All stable information factors to Jesus Christ being purely a fantasy. there is not any stable information that Jesus even existed, and considerable information that he did no longer. The information is in the Bible, the different religions of the time, and the lack of ability of writings approximately Jesus via historians of the time. the story of Jesus could be shown to be purely a fantasy created to fulfill prophesy, cobbled jointly out of information from the previous testomony and previous gods and myths -- created in the forties and 50's via Paul of Tarsus (who exhibited indications of epilepsy and had delusions of Christ conversing to him), the different apostles, the unknown authors of the gospels in the 70's or later, and a large type of human beings. The stable information for it relatively is overwhelming. For the information, see the hyperlinks. -

Answer 5

All the old testament sacrifices were simply practice and preparation for the singular and eternal sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

And in that respect, without the shedding of blood, there would have been no remission of sins.

Answer 6

The act of giving of the Blood, it represents to God the giving up of pain, a bodyment of sinn cleaned by blood. It is the best you have too give! Thats why i believed Jesus had to go thru this and be placed on the cross. The message is not just in the struggle of Jesus. The Message is the free will in giving up his own life and his blood.

Answer 7

The wadges that is the natural effect of sin is DEATH, the services of the santuary duing and before Jesus coming as a man pointed to Jesus dyeing on the cross for you and me and without shedding of blood there is NO Hebrews 9:22, learn much more free on line bible lessons www.itiswritten.com God bless bible questions www.bibleinfo.com talk to me also [e-mail]

Answer 8

If you are trying to avoid the atonement provided by God on your behalf through the blood of his son Jesus Christ - Please don't. The blood of Jesus speaks better things that any kind of atonement mentioned by you or in scripture. Yes, the blood of Jesus SPEAKS better things.

"Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins." More specifically, without the shedding of Christ's blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Answer 9

atonement of sins means different for different people.. yes blood sacrifice is not mandatory at times. but both bible and quaran depicts more blood sacrifice so its continued till now..

Answer 10

In Genesis cain and able gave offerings. Which one did God accept? the blood sacrifice. I believe we don't need to sacrifice animals anymore, Jesus sacrificed himself and with his blood we are reconciled with GOd.