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To: boatbums

> Why are you ignoring the questions you have been asked about blood sacrifices for sin?

I answered the question.


886 posted on 12/04/2017 8:44:31 PM PST by Hrvatski Noahid
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>>Why are you ignoring the questions you have been asked about blood sacrifices for sin?<<

I answered the question.

THIS answer, you mean? The Torah Law for Jews is more restrictive than the Torah Law for Gentiles.

We aren't talking about the Law of Moses versus the so-called Noahide laws, it has to do with God's requirement for atoning for sins. Why did God have Noah keep seven pairs of every kind of clean animals and birds on the ark? We read in Genesis 8:

    "Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done."

So long before Moses, God has instituted the blood sacrifice for the atonement of sins. Even before that, when He expelled Adam and Eve from the garden, God had used the skins of animals for their covering and there was death on account of sin. The blood sacrifice was part of a covenant between God and mankind and it was to remind all of the seriousness of sinning against God and His provision of a way of appeasing His holy righteousness and justice. Gentiles don't get out of that. You said you are a scholar of the Torah, so you should know this.

Just telling God you're sorry for doing wrong and trying to be a better person is insufficient. Sin requires punishment, it needs atonement. I showed you that passage from Leviticus 17 where God commands both the Israelites as well as those Gentiles among them to observe the blood sacrifice:

    For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you on the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul. (Leviticus 17:11)

You have NO atonement for your sins if you don't have a blood sacrifice. Christians know that Jesus Christ made propitiation for our sins by his once-for-all sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection was proof that He was the true Messiah and atonement had been made. He is our place of cleansing. Because you have rejected Him, you have none. Your sins are still with you and you will die in them unredeemed. Don't let that happen. God has made provision and offers redemption to you by His grace through faith. I pray you come to understand this truth.

892 posted on 12/04/2017 9:45:44 PM PST by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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