human blood sacrifice (jesus) to wash sins?
Isn't the idea of blood sacrifices some what iron age?
2007-12-26 10:18:39 · 20 answers · asked by stewart t 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes bronze age!
2007-12-26 10:27:25 · update #1
apparently, christians say that the old testament isn't to be regarded anymore, but some still believe in creationism. They pick and choose the bits that they like. You can do the same with the lord of the rings.
2007-12-26 10:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 8⤋
Your question has an underlining premise which might help you to understand the answer. The underlining premise is your basically saying that the Old Testament is the literal word of god. Personally speaking I don't believe this is correct, I believe the bible is a human construct, the same a language which I also feel is a human creation. This is my own personal belief, I believe God has no use for language, I believe a spoken language or written words are so benief this all powerful higher power. I don't believe any human made language is able to translate Gods desires into words because it is so vastly simplified and god is so superior to that. In fact I don't think its even possible to comprehend a Gods desires because desires themself are so benief a Gods true potential.I don't even think a human mind is able to comprehend the beauty and love of God because this higher power is so beyond are imperfect comprehensions. For me, the idea of a book representing the words of god is like trying to teach a goldfish to tell all the other goldfish that its bubbles are an interpretation of human history and human intelligence. Its just so incomprehensible is beyond naive IMO. Also I believe we are all god and beyond this 5 sense reality we are all pure love and light. The idea of death is just a human misconception of something which we don't understand and in reality it is just an illusion, or rather a transition away from the 5 senses reality and re-joining of the source consciousness of God. Only HUMAN BEINGs would create a belief in sacrifice. I personally think this is a confusion which originates in the ego where we think we are the most important living beings in this reality.
2016-05-26 10:37:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blood sacrifice is not a vital part of Judaism and never has been. There were sometimes animal sacrifices but nine times out of ten, the animals were eaten for supper afterwards!
Human blood sacrifice is NOT part of Judaism and NEVER has been. Judaism rejects the idea that a person can die to atone for another's sins.
HASSE - am not sure why you keep putting the word Jews in quote marks. Do you have some sort of problem?
2007-12-26 10:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus has always been in the plan. the animal sacrifices were to be made until the time was right for the Messiah to come and lay down His life, and atone for all sin, past, present and future. Another reason is everyone wasn't Jewish and did sacrifices. God grafted in the Gentiles as well. How were our sins to be atoned for, since Gentiles didn't sacrifice animals, and there was no law for us for that? But, since Jesus came and died on the cross, EVERYONE'S sins were atoned for, as long as we accept Jesus, we are washed clean by His redeeming blood. When Jesus died on the cross, that did away with ALL other sacrifices as well. It is the NEW COVENANT WITH GOD, through Jesus Christ. What's the deal with putting a label on it like it was "iron age?" God never changes. His word never changes. He is the same today as He was yesterday, and will be tomorrow. Jesus said, "Heaven and Earth will pass away, but My Words will NEVER pass away." God Bless
2007-12-26 10:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The blood sacrifes in the Old Testament were a reflection of ancient Hittite legal contracts where the contract was "sealed" with a blood sacrifice. This then became embodied in the Jewish peoples understanding of their "contract with God.
Christians added to the same themes - except this time the contract was made by Christ becoming the symbolic lamb, slaughtered to seal what was understood to form a new contract with God.
2007-12-26 10:31:04 · answer #5 · answered by AS 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Actually Bronze I think.
Paul was getting no where fast getting converts in Tarsus.
The people there were mostly Mithra's followers. The believed that blood sacrifices washed away sins.
Paul blended this idea into his ever changing version of Christianity. Only he supercharged it with the blood of Jesus (son of God) washes away the sins of the world. Prior to this it had no part in christian teachings. Jesus never said anything about it. It worked like a charm. Paul had a deluge of converts because He gave them something that they could relate to.
This success was not overlooked by Constantine and his gang. They were trying to maneuver them selves into the control seat of the christian faith. They adopted Paul's version of Christianity and the idea of God/Jesus dying for your sins. It was very effective because of the guilt it induced. They also took another hint from Paul's book of tricks and came up with a very similar version of Paul's conversion for Constantine. He too had a vision where the christian Figure head came to him and converted him.
The rest is history. After the council of nicea all competing scripture was ordered destroyed and all true versions of the teachings of Jesus were labeled heresy.
All we were left with was the nonsense called the bible.
Love and blessings Don
2007-12-26 10:22:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
What decent god doesn't enjoy a good blood bath now and again?
Albeit old school blood is the life giver and therefor represents eternal life in the sacrificing of the blood.
2007-12-26 10:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by That's Why 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God was not pleased at all... Sin never pleases God. and that's the main point why the provision of blood sacrificecame to be. as an atonement for sins.
just an example, have you watched John Q, by denzel washington? Imagine John Q is God, His heart is his Jesus, and the john Q's son represents mankind. Had there been no donor for his son, John Q is willing to offer his own heart out of
his love for his son so that the boy will live. The analogy is the same. God sent his begotten son in order to save mankind.
Another thing is, Why did Jesus have to die? God is just also as well as loving. Whenever mankind sin, since the beginning, since Adam and Eve had sinned against him, remember He said to the man, "if you eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you shall SURELY DIE" they disobeyed. they should have died the moment they eat the fruit. That's God's justice, but instead God provided a way for them out of His love to cover their sins. God sacrificed an animal to cloth them, to cover their naked body with coats of skin. And they lived long enough, but not enough for eternal life. Have you noticed the type of animals being used for sacrifice? gentle animals, calves, lambs, etc. pure animal. Sacrifices, shedding of blood is a provision of God for the remission of sins. That has been the way to be close to Him.
Israel, his chosen nation at that time had also offered animal sacrifices then to cover their sins since then, but still not enough, until Jesus Christ came, his Son. Christ became a man without sin, resisted temptation of the devil, had been obedient until his death. His blood is much purer than these animal sacrifices. Christ's death was God's ultimate provision for us to enter eternal life. If you belong to him and accepted that Christ died for you, He does not see you as a carnal person, instead, He sees His Son in you. and if you hold on to this faith until death, you will one day receive his promised resurrection (eternal life). I hope this can be of help to you... by the way, I haven't quoted any bible verses as what you said but rest assured, what I said is correlated with the Bible.
2007-12-26 10:39:00 · answer #8 · answered by Jay R 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus would agree with you. He said "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice." Matt. 9:13
Blood for sin theology comes from the Pauline gospel, not the Kingdom Gospel Jesus preached. This resource explains the difference between these two very different gospels.
2007-12-26 10:28:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Along with your questions, I have wondered how an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful, Omnipotent god can be violent, petty and vengeful one day and do a complete 180 after "sacrificing" his only son. Seems rather odd to me.
2007-12-26 10:34:41 · answer #10 · answered by Hugh G. Rection 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus came to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.
I would encourage you to read the New Testament first, starting with the book of John. Then go to Jude and read each book back to Matthew.
Once you've got a good foundation in the New Testament, then go back into the Old Testament. Seek and you will find...
2007-12-26 10:24:27 · answer #11 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋