theAmbassador: If all you Premillennialists think that animal sacrifice is such a higher form of spiritual worship, then why can't I find any of you taking the bull to the local temple? Surely you are not afraid of PETA. You tell me when and where and I'll keep the riff-raff away.
Mom if this guy is your new guide to what the Bible says you might want to rethink who you hang with, look at what ksen wrote, and his reply, do you see what I'm talking about? ksen NEVER said anything of the sort.
BigMack
Under the Old Covenant economy, some very strange things--including an "in-your-face" kind of gore--were necessary to God's unfolding instructional plan. But now that the suffering of Christ as the prophecied Lamb of God is understood in the Gospel, the re-institution of animal sacrifices, even in some memorial way, is unseemly.
In my opinion, the proposal smacks of retrograde theology--very much like Romanism. (It pretends to honor Christ, whereas it is actually denigrating Him by the very beggarliness and uselessness of the ritual.)
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The dispensationalists look forward to a materialistic millennium as a lovely age. But their anticipated re-institution of an in-your-face kind of gore involves a movement in the wrong direction for such a lovely age.
(The dispensationalists love to say that the lion will lie down with the lamb in their Golden Age of Peace. But it would appear that the lamb will need to keep his distance from the dispensationalist zealot--who will even kill that lamb for a completely needless display of religious violence.)