Athiests, Moslems, and believers in Jesus-why would Moses say"Without a innocent blood there is no forgiveness

Question

Leviticus 17:11 still in the Hebrew and in the Jewish Scriptures even after the temple was destroyed and Jesus fulfilled this-and the Jewish people cant take it out of their bible because it is there!

"The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to make atonement/forgiveness for your sins." once on the altar and then in Jesus God almighty as Isaiah promised the prince of peace the Son given, the child to be born. Isaiah 9:6

why did Moses say thus saith the Lord-that we have to have an innocent blood atonement to have our sins forgiven???

Answer 1

We had to be forgiven through innocent, sinless blood. When Adam and Eve were in the garden, they were sinless. God had communion with them and they were completely innocent. When they sinned, they were removed from the garden and told that they would have to work and live on their own seperated from God. The first thing God did was gave them animal skin to ware to cover their naked bodies. This was the first sacrifice. No animals had been killed prior to this. It was forshadowing of the coming Christ.

Christ is called the second Adam, because he was born without sin. Christ was able to obey his Father in everything he did. Which lead him to die on the cross for our sins. Christ restored what Adam took from Humanity. Christ reset the ablitly to have communion with God, through his innocent blood.

Answer 2

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 3

your messiah gave the final blood sacrifice, to end all sacrifices.
you will find as you keep reading your bible, that the OT (old testament) is replaced with the NT (new testament) and in that newer testament, your messiah was the FINAL "innocent blood" sacrafice.

moses said "thus saith the lord" because apparently moses was told by the lord that there was to be a sacrifice of "innocent" blood. because in the OT (old testament) your messiah hadn't made his apperance yet.

moses also meant in this "innocent blood sacrifice" to mean, ANIMALS, not some lonely girl that one stalks and kills for her blood, so that person that kills her can become "righteous".

Answer 4

They believed that the Blood of Jesus was the way to forgive the sins of the evil man.

Answer 5

I am an atheist and I think that Moses probably was not a historical character. And if he was, why should I care about what he allegedly said? In my view, the old testament and the new are both largely made up, legends of old written down at a point and edited so that things fitted into each other.

Answer 6

From this Muslim's perspective...we don't have to have the innocent blood sacrifice to be forgiven for our sins. We are not born in original sin, and we are responsible for our own choices. We are forgiven if Allah deems that we should be; we are granted Paradise because of Allah's mercy.

When talking about sacrificial animals, for example, the Qur'an states "It is not their meat nor their blood that reaches Allah: it is your piety that reaches Him..."22:37

Salaam!

Answer 7

They believed that scapegoating was a grand idea.

There were many such ideas in the past that later proved to not really make sense. However, this one still lives on in religious superstition. The whole Jesus scapegoating is a prime example.

Answer 8

Its in my scriptures too and I'm not Jewish.

The penalty for sin is death, life is in the blood and it being poured out is symbolic for death.

Each of us deserve death for our sins. Israel was given substitutional sacrifice to teach them of the cost of sin and to point them to messiah who was the substitutional sacrifice once and for all for all sin since it was the blood of God that was shed for mankind and not the blood of animals. After all it was God who made covenant with us.

A covenant in the caananite civalization was basically two partys agreeing to perform certain duties and the idea was that should I break the covenant then may I die as these animals did.

God did not break the covenant man did but God came to earth as a man and paid the price of the covenant for us.

It is still in the scriptures to remind us of this fact and to teach others who don't know it.

Oh wait. did I not take the scripture literal enough for you. Oh darn. Another Atheist urban legend shot full of holes.

Answer 9

muslims believe in moses and the christ peace be upon them
but they don`t believe in the say"Without a innocent blood there is no forgiveness
the forgiveness would been by the mercy of allah

Answer 10

I agree with Naturalbornkeiler .. on this one...

Pointing to a line in a book that essentially doesn't mean anything, and then asking an atheists' opinion. Would be kind of silly.