If Jews no longer sacrifice lambs and they don't accept Christ, how do they atone for their sins?

Answer 1

There is no atonement except through Jesus

Answer 2

The sacrificial lamb was never a requirement for atonement of sin. There were many, many types of offerings for different types of sins. Some didn't have animal offerings and offered grains, oils, incense, etc. instead. HUMAN sacrifices were never acceptable to God!

Since the Temple was destroyed in the year 70 CE, sacrifice has been replaced by prayer.
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Answer 3

Judaism views sin as a straying from G-d, so other than Yom Kippur (the day of atonement, holiest day of the year) it is believed that the transgression is atoned by means of repentance, prayer etc. Basically, by returning to G-d the sin is forgiven. In the Hebrew Bible while animal sacrificea are listed as sin-offerings and guilt-offerings, it does not say that these are the only methods for atonement.

Answer 4

I think what people fail to realize is that all forgiveness is achieved by grace through faith. Until Jesus came, we had no idea why he seemed to accept some sacrifices, deny others, make the various specific rules of sacrifices, etc.

Jews are in essence trying to live out the Gospel by following many of Jesus' words yet deny his atoning blood.

Without the acceptance of Jesus' blood atonement for their sins, they are in a heap of trouble!

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him. -John 3:36

Answer 5

We Jews atone for our sins through prayer, repentance, and charitable acts.

In fact, if one believed that a blood sacrifice was necessary before God would forgive you, then even one example where God forgave without a blood sacrifice would prove that this idea is UnBiblical. There are many such examples, but the most interesting is found in the Book of Leviticus. The reason this is so interesting is that it comes right in the middle of the discussion of sin sacrifices, which is found in the first chapters. In Leviticus 5:11-13, it states, "If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering." One can also see that one does not need a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins in the Book of Jonah 3:10. There, the Bible simply states that God saw the works of the people of Ninevah. Specifically it says that the works God saw were that they stopped doing evil, and so God forgave them. There are plenty of other examples, and the idea that one needs a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins is UnBiblical.

Answer 6

By fasting on Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement.

But your question is very parochial anyway - it assumes that:

1. atonement is necessary

and

2. atonement is possible.

As I understand it, Catholics just say "sorry" to a priest, and more broadly, Christians don't really need to atone anyway because Jesus died precisely for that reason. And Buddhists have Karma and reincarnation to cover that. Or have I misunderstood something?

Answer 7

From a theological point of view,I couldn't answer,but in practical terms many Jews believe that all of their sins,past and present,are forgiven because of the Holocaust,which they beleive to be historically unique and unique to their people. It isn't; the largest genocide occured in the Belgian Congo in the late 19th century under King Leopold the Third; the death toll was 22 million,although admittedly that was over a 20-year period. However the Ukrainian Genocide of 1933-34 had a death toll of 7 million and,ironically,it was organized by a Jewish official named Kaganovich; the technique was depriving farmers of all their produce, thus starving them to death. Jewish shtetls were excused.
It should be noted,however,that the contemporary Jewish feeling of automatic forgiveness in relation to their suffering during the Holocaust only applies collectively; for example with respect to Israeli human-rights abuses. It doesn't apply to the individual. I don't know that Judaism has ever offered a path to strictly personal forgiveness - perhaps not,and perhaps because of the extent to which they think of themselves more as a collective whole than as individuals. Their detractors have often accused them of exhibiting a kind of "hive" mentality; but like all slurs it has a grain of truth,but only a grain. But they are in my experience unusually prone to what is now called group-think.

Answer 8

first of all blood sacrifices were not required for each sin. 2d, all blood sacrifices were required to be made contained in the Temple of Jerusalem. considering that that progression has been destroyed, there are literally not any blood sacrifices. ultimately, G-d instructed the Jews that prayer is a suitable alternative for a blood providing. See how ordinary it really is.

Answer 9

Whatever they do, it's not in line with what the Torah tells them to do. Without the temple and the blood sacrifice, they have no access to God for atonement.

Answer 10

For sure by NOT going to a priest and report what we did like Catholics do.
The Day of Atonement is Yom Kippur and we pray DIRECTLY to God and ask forgiveness. Jew don't need a middle man (aka Jesus)

Answer 11

This is a great question. The BIble answers it for us.

I assume you read the Bible. When the Temple was built by Solomon, it became forbidden to sacrifice outside of it. (You can read in the books of the prophets G_d's anger at people for sacrificing to him on High Places - altars outside of the Temple.)

SO a good Bible reader will ask, how does a person get the same affect of a sacrifice when the temple area is off limits due to the loss of red heifer ashes, and the temple itself is ruined?

The answer comes from King Solomon who revealed prophetically what to do in that case in Kings 8:45 saying if we are carried off by enemies we need to, "Repent with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies where you have carried them to, and pray to you in the direction of their land, this city you picked, and this house I have built....pardon them."

The prophet Hoshia also says what to do in 14:2 of his book in the Bible, in this case talking about the first Temples destruction and proper way to gain forgiveness

"Take words with you and return to the HaSHem. Say to Him 'Forgive all our sins and receive us with mercy, because we offer our lips in place of sacrifices of bulls."

So that's what we should do, as that is what the Prophets were told we should do by G-d.

Hope that helps.