If I told you my god needed blood to make everything okay, what would you think of me?

Question

Why would any normal person think a perfect God would need blood offerings to make everything fine.....its just so sick....don't you think?
eg....the blood of christ....and before him ...alot of blood offerings god found pleasing.....????hello wakeup and think for yourselves what a perfect god or parent would be like!

And christians wonder why we don't want them or their cult thoughts in our schools, courts, or goverment.

to frosty....nothing you said changes the fact that your god is into blood and needs it to make everything okay...and by the way i read the bible twice...cover to cover as a teenager...thats why i'm not christian!

what do you call the blood of christ?
Its a blood offering.....no way around it...god needed it to make everything okay.....nice god!!!

Answer 1

well, you know those drama queens.

Answer 2

the blood represents sacrifice, you might have read the bible twice but thats two times you didnt understand what you read.

and as if you know whats "so sick" ... if your dad needed a pint of blood to stay alive in the hospital would you sacrifice your own to help keep him alive? Sure you would, just a small example of the sacrificial blood of Christ that he offered to save all that believe on him.

Who are you, or I to question his method of salvation for both old and new times? I think a bath in ice cream would be a better plan of salvation but he didnt ask me what I though when he drew up the plans and neither did he ask you. Now when you read the bible for the third time try praying for an open mind and an open heart before diving in to quickly prove it wrong.

Answer 3

Once again, someone who doesn't understand a bit of what they are trying to talk about. Wow, you know, if I came on here with a question like that, I would surely want to try to understand the subject before I made a anti-Christian remark like that. Learn and understand why God required a blood sacrifice to cover sin, so you can have an intelligent debate.
That would be like me trying to say something stupid about Buddhist's or whatever, without doing any research. And If I still didn't truly understand, I surely wouldn't try "flaming" them to get the answer.

So by the way you asked your question, you are clearly trying to flame Christians. That is all, you have no interest in actually learning the answer. What a shame. It could save your eternal life.

Answer 4

gavin: You sure have some bad theology. "Blood offerings" are an Old Testament ritual, performed by the Jews [Levites] at that time, as a fore-shadow of the blood of Jesus Christ in atoning us to God, the Father. This is why Jesus died. God stated, that He preferred "mercy" rather than "sacrifices" see: Matthew chapter 9, verse 13 - for God's priority on Christian living .

Answer 5

I would think that you were Evangelical Protestant.
You do realize that the doctrine you just described is by no means common in Christianity, past or present? Sacrifical atonement is a distinctly Augustinian doctrine, and is completely foreign to all Christian theologians prior to the 5th century, all of the denominations indigenous to Africa, the Middle East, Greece, Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Finland, and China, the Greek-speaking theologians of the late Roman and Byzantine Churches, the Frankish Churches under Clovis, the Nestorians (who once numbered more than the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches combined), and the first seven Ecumenical Councils.

Answer 6

symbolic - as in, blood is life.

Answer 7

Do you mean that we can create our own god?