Because I was not denying that animal sacrifices pictured propitiation/expiation/atonement, which seemed to be your claim, making, as it were, some distinction between atonement and propitiation/expiation wrt animals.
Animal sacrifice never accomplished atonement. That was, I believe, your position.
Do you believe that animal sacrifice was a picture of the perfect propitiation/expiation/atonement of Christ?
Do you believe that Paul continued to sacrifice nearly three decades after the Cross?
Shalom.
“Because I was not denying that animal sacrifices pictured propitiation/expiation/atonement”
The question was not did they “picture” but were they “efficient” for the propriation/expiation for sin.