[RnMomof7]

The OT concept of sacrifice was to kill an animal and offer it to God--symbolizing the killing of our sins toward Him. The reason people sacrificed their bast animals (or should have) was to show God that we were giving our best towards Him. However, killing animals was never a good enough sacrifice for all our sins--it just pushed them back a little.
Christ changed that. He became our sacrifice for all time. A perfect, blameless sacrifice that would mean we never have to perform sacrifices of animals to God again. However, without belief, without the acceptance of what that sacrifice means, it does nothing. It would be just as if the shepard killed a lamb out of hunger, rather than on an altar. Then same thing is accomplished (killing of the lamb), but the results are vastly different--because of the attitude of the shepard.

Shadow each man had to raise or purchase his own animal, bring it to the temple and offer it himself...it was never a general redemption

[ShadowAce]

....it was never a general redemption No, it wasn't. I never claimed that, though I sometimes cannot express myself as I would like to. Animal sacrifice (with certain exceptions) was personal--Christ's sacrifice was for all.