The whole point why we don’t need sacrifices today is that the OT sacrifices were a foreshadowing of Christ, who still had yet to come, to be the sacrifice for ALL. Those animal sacrifices were based on the equity of Christ’s then-future sacrifice for mankind.
As Christ paid once and for all, we no longer need animal sacrifice, THE ONE REAL SACRIFICE those animal sacrifices represented, has been paid. No need anymore to unecessarily sacrifice animals.
I agree. Neither do we need priests. When the veil of the temple was broken (Matt. 27:51), it broke from top to bottom because it was God Himself who removed the barrier between God and man. We don’t need priests, we don’t need intercessors other than Jesus Christ. When the one, perfect sacrifice was offered, it put an end to the sacrificial system and that included the temple, priests... Remember, it was the author of the article, not me, who associated animal sacrifices and priesthood. I just said that, just as the former was abolished at the Cross, so was the later!
This is a good statement of the fundamental error you guys make.
Christ's sacrifice is "once" and it is "for all," but it is not only in the past. You make this error because you confuse "sacrifice" with "killing the victim". However, Biblically -- look at the Old Testament -- they are not the same!
Killing the victim occurs near the beginning of the sacrifice, but afterwards, the sacrificial gift still needs to be offered to God by the priest, and then usually eaten by both the priest and the person on whose behalf the sacrifice is being offered.
Once you understand this, you need only look at the middle part of the Epistle to the Hebrews to see that Christ's sacrifice, which began on Calvary, is being eternally offered to the Father by Christ the High Priest in the heavenly Holy of Holies. And, simultaneously, we -- the persons on whose behalf the sacrifice was and is being offered -- need to partake of it. Physically. Really. Literally. Just like the Israelites needed to really eat of the Passover Lamb to keep their firstborn alive.
So, you certainly don't need to sacrifice animals. But the true Sacrifice offered to the Father on the Cross and now being offered to the Father on the altar in heaven you most certainly do need, which is precisely what Christ commanded when he told his disciples to "do this" -- that is, offer the Eucharist -- "in memory of me".