Q: #62. Why has God required blood to be shed to pay for sins?
A: Truthfully, I do not fully understand why God has chosen this method,
but He has and He knows what He is doing .
Let me try and explain Biblically why blood is required.
First, let's look at an example found in (Ex 12:1-13) called the Passover.
In these verses, we are told how God required the Israelites to take a one year
old unblemished lamb and kill it. They were then to take it's blood and put it
on the doorposts outside of the house. When God went through Egypt to strike
down all of the firstborn, He would see the blood on the doorposts, and "pass
over" that house. This was a picture of a life being given, and blood being
shed, so that others could live.
The penalty for our sins is death (Rom 6:23), both physical and spiritual.
In order to have atonement (forgiveness) for our sins, and be saved from
"death," God has required that a life must be given, and it's blood be shed
(Heb 9:22). A living creature must forfeit it's life, so that another can live.
During the Passover, the unblemished lamb (picturing Jesus) was slain, and
it's blood shed, so that those in the house could be saved. Animals in the Old
Testament were sacrificed, and their blood was shed so that a person could be
made clean, or have their sins be forgiven.
God said in (Lev 17:11) that the life of a living creature is found in it's
blood. Blood represents life. When a life was taken, and it's blood shed as a
sacrifice, it represented new life for another. It made atonement for their
soul (same verse).
Because of what blood represented, God would not allow anyone to eat the
blood of an animal (Lev 17:12). Anyone who ate it was to be cut off from among
the people (Lev 17:14).
The Bible tells us, however, that the blood of bulls and goats could not
actually take away sins (Heb 10:4). The Old Testament sacrificial system, and
the High Priest, was simply a picture that pointed forward to Jesus. Only
through the blood of Jesus can we actually have remission of, and redemption
from our sins (Mt 26:28)(Col 1:14)(Eph 1:7). His blood cleanses us from ALL
sin (1 Jn 1:7). Through the offering of Jesus body, we are sanctified once for
all (Heb 10:10). Those in the Old Testament looked forward to this, and today
we look back at it.
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Let me try and explain Biblically why blood is required.
First, let's look at an example found in (Ex 12:1-13) called the Passover.
In these verses, we are told how God required the Israelites to take a one year
old unblemished lamb and kill it. They were then to take it's blood and put it
on the doorposts outside of the house. When God went through Egypt to strike
down all of the firstborn, He would see the blood on the doorposts, and "pass
over" that house. This was a picture of a life being given, and blood being
shed, so that others could live.
The penalty for our sins is death (Rom 6:23), both physical and spiritual.
In order to have atonement (forgiveness) for our sins, and be saved from
"death," God has required that a life must be given, and it's blood be shed
(Heb 9:22). A living creature must forfeit it's life, so that another can live.
During the Passover, the unblemished lamb (picturing Jesus) was slain, and
it's blood shed, so that those in the house could be saved. Animals in the Old
Testament were sacrificed, and their blood was shed so that a person could be
made clean, or have their sins be forgiven.
God said in (Lev 17:11) that the life of a living creature is found in it's
blood. Blood represents life. When a life was taken, and it's blood shed as a
sacrifice, it represented new life for another. It made atonement for their
soul (same verse).
Because of what blood represented, God would not allow anyone to eat the
blood of an animal (Lev 17:12). Anyone who ate it was to be cut off from among
the people (Lev 17:14).
The Bible tells us, however, that the blood of bulls and goats could not
actually take away sins (Heb 10:4). The Old Testament sacrificial system, and
the High Priest, was simply a picture that pointed forward to Jesus. Only
through the blood of Jesus can we actually have remission of, and redemption
from our sins (Mt 26:28)(Col 1:14)(Eph 1:7). His blood cleanses us from ALL
sin (1 Jn 1:7). Through the offering of Jesus body, we are sanctified once for
all (Heb 10:10). Those in the Old Testament looked forward to this, and today
we look back at it.