"Job 33:23, "If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.""
Well, the Jews made all sorts of sacrifices didn't they...and not one of them gained them anything eternal, did it?
I must say, Protestant fixation with the OT and the Old Law strikes me as very, very strange. Christ gave The Church the sacraments for the forgiveness of our sins, most supremely the Eucharist which you reject. The sacraments, just like the OT sacrifices, aren't/weren't for God, they were/are for us, unless, apparently, one is outside The Church and therefore has no need of them.
Amen.
Precisely. Because the only sacrifice capable of paying for the crime was God Himself. Men cannot merit grace, no matter how vainly they try.