Why don't we sacrifice animals to god anymore?

Question

Stupid liberals with those animal rights and such. They are all going to hell for not sacrificing lambs to god!

why doesn't judaism do it anymore?

Does the bible say that all animal sacrifices should end because of jesus? Wow i didn't know that.

Answer 1

Yes, even if you didn’t know it (“wow”), the bible says Christ ended animal sacrifice by replacing it with his own eternally efficacious one:

Hebrews 9-10

As Moses' Teachings tell us, blood was used to cleanse almost everything, because if no blood is shed, no sins can be forgiven. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us. And he did not have to make an offering of himself again and again, as the high priest goes into the holy place every year with blood which is not his. For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself. And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged; so Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation. Moses' Teachings with their yearly cycle of sacrifices are only a shadow of the good things in the future. They aren't an exact likeness of those things. They can never make those who worship perfect. If these sacrifices could have made the worshipers perfect, the sacrifices would have stopped long ago. Those who worship would have been cleansed once and for all. Their consciences would have been free from sin. Instead, this yearly cycle of sacrifices reminded men of their sins. Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins. For this reason, when Christ came into the world, he said to his Father, " 'You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you take no pleasure.’”

In the last passage, Christ even quotes the prophet Jeremiah, known to have condemned animal sacrifice in the Old Testament. As for the Jews, the practice ended more gradually because after the Romans destroyed their temple (70AD), they began to spread throughout the world, eventually living under Christian law which curtailed their public sacrifices. Indeed, to this day, however, the Jewish Passover is a type of sacrifice (the lamb, killed ritually by kosher law, is eaten and his blood put upon the door).

Answer 2

Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice. No more blood was to be sacrificed after Jesus. You must understand something about the purpose of animal sacrifice in the Old Testament. Animals were treated like wealth. Each sheep a person owned was worth a great deal of money and could feed an entire family. Families took great care of their animals as they needed them to survive. By sacrificing an animal to God, it was like giving up wealth to God. It showed that you trusted God to care for you even when you were down an animal. We no longer live in such a culture where an animal sacrifice would mean something as tragic and difficult. God knows this.

Answer 3

Mainly because we believe Jesus Christ told man that God the Father didn’t want burnt offerings anymore; Christ himself was to become the complete and eternal sacrifice (still enacted to this day in the Sacrifice of the Mass). This brought an end to animal (and human) sacrifice in the Western World. I’m gratified to find so many good answers above.

Answer 4

Because God decided to send us His only begotten Son, Jesus, so that we could sacrifice him instead. God always relished the slaughter of firstborn - see the OT - so He must've decided (in His infinite wisdom) that the formula would work well with His own. And indeed it did - God was so satiated on the blood of His son that He no longer needed to be regularly fed with animal blood like in the old days.

(I wrote this as a joke, although it IS Christian dogma out of the box - but now I see several others who've written basically the same thing, except they meant it seriously. Scary!)

Answer 5

Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrifice, atoning for the sins of all people for all time. Therefore, Christians don't see a need or purpose to sacrificing animals to God, since Jesus was the perfect sacrifice.

Answer 6

Jesus was the last and ultimate sacrifice. No more need for sacrificing animals. We can come to God through His Son for the atonement of our sins because of the sacrifice He made on the cross.

Answer 7

The blood of Jesus pardoned sin once and for all if we believe in Him. Animal sacrifice is no longer able to cover sin. Only the blood of Jesus can wash away sin. Only the blood of Jesus can give eternal life in heaven. If we fail to accept Jesus, we are dead in our sins and eternal life with Jesus is not available. The alternative is nothing anyone should want.

Answer 8

Ok, "Jesus was a perfect sacrifice" thing is just stupid.
It's like saying last year I gave my wife a perfect gift, so I stopped giving her gifts after that.
God says on many occasions that he likes animal sacrifices, he never says that this practice should stop when he gets a "perfect sacrifice" whatever the heck that is. So, if he used to like sacrifices, and never said he doesn't want them anymore, WHY STOP?

Because people realized how stupid and barbaric the whole practice was, that's why. "Perfect sacrifice" BS doesn't have anything to do with it.

Answer 9

Because when Jesus died on the cross he became the new sacrificed.. they used to sacrifice lamb because of the passover that happened wid moses and his people... but now the lamb and the sacrificed became Jesus and we don't have to sacrificed anything because Jesus saved us from our sins...

Answer 10

Because Christ was the final "lamb" to be sacrificed for sins. "Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world". He died once for all, so that we need not sacrifice animals anymore. "Without shedding of blood is no remission for sins."