It didn't come from Jews, they teach that blood sacrifice was just ONE way to atone with God, but you also had to atone with the person you offended and make efforts to right the wrong done to that person or peoples. They link action with repentence, believing that if you're truly sorry you'll try to make it right.
In addition to a blood sacrafice, there was also a flour sacrafice, as well as a prayer sacrafice. All were linked to actions. If you did something wrong, you made up for it (not just prayer "repentence", but actual repentance and atonement).
This has been lost to Christianity. People believe that they are accountable to no one but God, and if they do bad things, it's all forgiven if they ask Jesus to forgive them, because Jesus was the final blood sacrafice. Blood was never necessary, it was an offering, not a demand from God in order to obtain forgiveness. So where exactly did the belief that a blood sacrifice was necessary come from?
2007-11-21 04:04:37 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
peacebyjesus, did you not read the details? The scripture that you provided does nothing to disprove my argument.
2007-11-21 06:24:09 · update #1
Notice how not one of them can find it in Torah or Tanakh, they have to turn to their book of lies...
Amazing... (not...)
2007-11-21 04:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Pure visceral impact? so much of Christianity would have fallen beyond the pale of history were it not so puzzling and , yes, at times, offensive. Yet even here we see that staunch atheists are still talking about it. I consider myself a follower of Christ's teachings and I still struggle with the concept of atonement. Right now I just take it on faith to be meaningful, but I'm willing to admit that it may be a rationalization. How else do you justify the execution of the founder of the "Jesus movement".
2007-11-21 04:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by metanoia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is necessary for atonement, though you are right some Christians seem to leave out the part about true repentance and restitution.
It goes all the way back to Adam & Eve, and it signifies the difference between grace and works. When Adam & Eve sinned and "knew they were naked", they covered themselves with fig leaves (their own works.) God provided them with animal skins (signifying grace and blood sacrifice.
Then when Cain and Abel offered their sacrifices to God, Abel's blood sacrifice was accepted, while Cain's grain offering was rejected. This again shows the difference between doing things God's way (blood sacrifice) vs man's way (works).
The blood sacrifices continued throughout the Old Testament--you see Noah taking extra animals on the Ark to use as offering on the alter to thank God for sparing him and his family, and you see it continued through Abraham and Moses. The Passover, where the blood of the Lamb was necessary for the Death Angel to pass over the houses of the Jews is another example of this being necessary.
The blood sacrifice is a type of Christ leading up to His ultimate sacrifice for the atonement of all sins on the cross. Only Christ, born of a virgin and sinless throughout His life, could be the acceptable sacrifice for the sins of the world. But you are right, people have to repent of their sins and accept this grace in order to be forgiven, and also have to die to self and live for Christ. To continue in sin after claiming Christ's sacrifice is an abuse of the grace Christ offered us. The ordinance of the Lord's Supper, or communion, is a time to remember this sacrifice & also to link it to the Old Testament Passover, which was actually symbolic of Christ---the Blood of the Lamb.
Just as Christians have lost sight of the idea that true repentance must accompany the sacrifice, the Jews have discontinued blood sacrifices after the destruction of the Temple, so have lost sight of the need for the actual sacrifice. Sadly, they rejected the Messiah who came to offer that supreme sacrifice once for all.
The Blood will never lose its power! When Christ comes back again in power and victory to rule the world, He will require blood of those who have not accepted His blood sacrifice on behalf of their sins. Read the Bible from cover to cover and you will see the theme of blood being required throughout--the blood is the life. Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.
2007-11-21 04:19:50 · answer #3 · answered by arklatexrat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God, and the Lord Jesus, both gave forgiveness without an immediate blood sacrifice, yet God went to great length to establish the Day of (blood) Atonement, and which Christ made the final one, and it is under the rubric of such that all forgiveness is enabled.
(Lev 16:30) "For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD."
(Lev 17:11) "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul."
(Heb 9:22) "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and [ultimately] without shedding of blood is no remission."
2007-11-21 04:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by www.peacebyjesus 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian and I don't believe we are not accountable to anyone. We worship only God but we are accountable to all of mankind. Now to the Jews wasn't it only the lamb that could atone for sins. Other sacrifices had different meanings. The scape goat and the sacrificial lamb were very much Jewish belief. Jesus was the Lamb that could take away our sins once and for all.
2007-11-21 04:12:00 · answer #5 · answered by Joy 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He mandatory some thing. interior the previous testomony there have been consistent sin alternatives yet none of them have been ever sufficient. basically God's basically son grew to become into the suitable offering, the only and basically. God won't be able to look upon sin because of the fact he's holy. He could no longer look upon Jesus at a certian factor on the bypass whilst the sins of the international have been laid upon him. it is on the bypass that God's basically and LOVE come mutually.
2016-10-17 15:11:49 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God killed an animal in the garden to obtain redemption for Adam and Eve's sin. The blood sacrifice is for redemption back to God. Read Genesis.
2007-11-21 04:09:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Er, no, actually: we as Jews do not believe that a blood sacrifice is ever necessary, either for atonement or anything else.
For more info: www.askmoses.com
www.jewfaq.org
www.jewsforjudaism.com
2007-11-21 04:08:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe that forgiveness can only be obtained through blood sacrifice. That is the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, which is foreign to some of the world's oldest and largest Christian denominations, including the Eastern Orthodox, Monophysites and Nestorians. That doctrine is unique to Roman Catholicism and its direct descendents.
2007-11-21 04:10:20 · answer #9 · answered by NONAME 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Uhh... I'm a Catholic and i do not think that the only way to forgiveness is through blood sacrafice. I personally feel that if you are truly sorry for what you have done and ask God for forgiveness he will give it to you.
2007-11-21 04:07:37 · answer #10 · answered by allieshedron 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Blood is the essence of life in magic. That said, is probably where the ancient stuff came from. Other sacrifices fed the priest. God care for the spirit. Blessed Be
2007-11-21 04:10:33 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋