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***Why do you believe that God would institute a system that is insulting to himself?***

He didn't. That "system" was a type and shadow of the better things. Those better things have come. Therefore, I no more need the blood of rams and bulls offered up by a priest than I need that priest. I have the offering of better things by ~THE~ High Priest who has entered the holiest by His own blood.

A little of an epistle you should acquaint yourself with:

For THE LAW HAVING A SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year. For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin THOU HAST HAD ~NO~ PLEASURE. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; WHICH ARE OFFERED BY THE LAW; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. HE TAKETH AWAY THE FIRST, THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH THE SECOND. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, SAT DOWN ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD; From henceforth expecting ~till~ his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Now, I do notice several interesting things about this passage:

1. These sacrifices are according to the LAW. I am divorced from the law right now. It is so very Galatian to want to return to the Law, which was only our "taskmaster to bring us to Christ."

2. He has taken away the first that he may establish the second.

3. The perfect offering has come. I am perfected forever by this offering. Therefore, there of necessity needs to be a ceasing of offerings for sin. They are an insult to the better thing which has come.

4. He is sitting at the right hand of the Majesty right now waiting until His enemies are made his footstool. And we know from 1 Co 15 that the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

Now, you may fuss and fume, but you may not deny the Biblical sequence given in this passage of scriptures. The first, that is the Law and animal sacrifices, has been taken away. The second has been established upon the blood and testament of Christ. That offering has already perfected forever those who are being sanctified (now there's a Calvinist verse for you and a good "L" for drstevej). The King of kings and Lord of lords is sitting at the right hand of the Father right now. He will remain there until His enemies are made his footstool. And the last enemy to be destroyed is death.

"For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest."

And this is exactly the system you advocate. No more will we have a High Priest for we will have many priests to offer up the blood of rams and bulls.

O foolish Christians! Who has bewitched you that you should desire this? It is just plain insulting to the Lord to return to the type and shadow and "besmirch" the better things. Why do you advocate doing this?

"O foolish Christians! Who has bewitched you that you should desire this? It is just plain insulting to the Lord to return to the type and shadow and "besmirch" the better things. Why do you advocate doing this?"

Why?

It's the sign of The Fall.

I agree with Dr. Steve Brown who makes this very profound statement to professing Christians:

"The sign of the Fall isn't your sin, folks --- Jesus took care of your sin. The sign of the Fall is your reversion to THE LAW."

Christians are "saved by grace", but it isn't long before they become very religious.

Foolish, spiritually immature legalists, comprise the vast majority of church congregations, and have comprised the vast majority, ever since God had to warn them about it through Paul. (Galatians).

There is more than one aspect to reverting back to the law.