Craig thanks for commenting the issue i have is that we are saved by faith and by the grace of God both in the old and the new.Not by
the blood sacrifices of animals i am not saying they are not important as they served an important role in the old testament.But even if cain had offered a lamb his sacrifice would still not have been accepted because it wasnt given in faith but by works his heart wasnt right so his offering wasnt accepted.
Not exact matches
When Abraham enters into the covenant with Yahweh he slays oxen and parts the beasts in two, creating a corridor drenched in the
blood of the
sacrificed animals.
It doesn't look like an
animal sacrifice is a slam dunk in the first chapters
of Gen. And it's a bad hermenutic to say that's a
blood sacrifice for sin is what is happening in Gen. 3.
According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse,
blood, pork, a pagan
sacrifice, suffocated
animals,
animals killed other than by slaughtering,
animals which died from a fall,
animals killed by other
animals, remnants
of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a
sacrifice to idols.
Then, because God had already shown them the «right» way, He pulled Cain up on his «non-
blood» vegetable offering as not doing what is «right», as it wasn't shedding the
blood of an
animal (which was essentially a type and shadow
of Christ's
sacrifice, as well as being the pattern already set by God in front
of Adam and Eve in the Garden).
The shedding
of the
animals»
blood was a foreshadowing
of the shedding
of the
blood of «the Lamb
of God,» a
sacrifice necessary for God to be able to clothe with His righteousness those who would believe on this Redeemer.
(Cf. I Samuel 14:33 - 35) There was no order
of hereditary priests, and the
sacrifices, long after the settlement in Canaan, were apparently few in kind and simple in observance principally the peace - offering, where the fat and
blood were given to Yahweh and the people feasted on the flesh, and the burnt - offering, where the whole
animal was burned upon the altar.
(Exodus 24:4 - 8) And always in the hinterland
of animal sacrifice lurked age - old ideas
of the magical potency
of blood as a powerful agency
of deliverance if rightly used (E.g., Exodus 12:12 - 13) and a supernatural peril if wrongly handled.
A large area
of historic Christian theology would have been completely altered if ideas
of atonement, especially as related to the
blood of Christ, had not been carried over from primitive concepts associated with
animal sacrifice.
The
blood sacrifice goes back to first people Adam and Eve when God
sacrificed an
animal to cover the sin
of Adam and Eve.
What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the
animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out
of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part
of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the
blood of animals.
This approach tries to work out the legal intricacies
of the rules for
sacrifice, to fill in the gaps and reconcile the inconsistencies embedded in the text: for example, determining the status
of an
animal designated for one type
of sacrifice but erroneously slaughtered for another; or determining what to do if an
animal that has been properly slaughtered and its
blood correctly sprinkled on the altar is then found to have a blemish that should have disqualified it.
The purposes
of the Law were brought to an end by the coming
of our Life giver, who offered himself in place
of the
sacrifices in the Law, and was led like a lamb to the slaughter in place
of the lamb
of propitiation... He gave his
blood for all mankind, so that the
blood of animals should not be required
of us.
The concept
of sacrifice is not that the
blood itself atones for you; the concept
of a
sacrifice is that you feel remorse that it should have been you that is punished to die, but instead, an innocent
animal is being killed because
of you.
We needed a perfect savior, a human
sacrifice, like us, because all the
blood of animals that was spilled under the Old Covenant through Moses did nothing even though God told them to do it and implied that it actually would do something.
The apostles sent a letter to the Gentiles that included the following: «It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food
sacrificed to idols, from
blood, from the meat
of strangled
animals and from se - xual immorality.
«food
sacrificed to idols, from
blood, from the meat
of strangled
animals and from sëxual immorality» hmmm... I thought much
of the Levitical / Mosaic code was about just these things,
blood and proper slaughtering techniques.
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food
sacrificed to idols, from
blood, from the meat
of strangled
animals and from sëxual immorality.
And with the cup, so clear a symbol
of his
blood in that red wine, he saw, as we did, that his life, poured forth, would seal a new commitment, would form upon the altar
of God's grace a whole new covenant that would replace the ancient, worn - out slaughter
of the
animals with one complete and final act, the
sacrifice of God's own son to show the world, to show us all the height and depth and majesty, the eternal glory
of God's love, which gives itself forever, or until we come, at last, and offer up our own lives in return.
The ancient ceremony
of a communion meal bound guest to host as they ate together
of meat (necessarily involving the «
sacrifice»
of the
animal and the shedding
of blood).
The Bible is very specific and exceedingly redundant about how to
sacrifice animals, smear the
blood on your clothes, on the door
of your tent, etc..
How much more shall the
blood of the messiah, wo through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to YHWH, purge you conscience from dead works, (
animal sacrifices) to serve the living YHWH.
It says You are to abstain from food
sacrificed idols, from
blood, from the meat
of strangled
animals and from sexual immorality.
He explained that the significance
of the season should be beyond the festivities, adding that as Muslims prepare to offer
animal sacrifice in the prescribed days
of the festival, the real essence was not in the meat or the
blood of the
animal but to encourage piety, self - discipline and
sacrifice.
These religions heavily involve the
sacrifice of animals for their
blood as an «offering» to the gods.
Focusing on the
sacrifices animals make for man,
Blood of Two centers on the former function
of the Slaughterhouse and the customs
of Hydra to establish connections between paganism and religion, ancient and modern, the ritualistic and familiar.
The prosecution claimed that the
blood on the cloth was deposited during a ritual
animal sacrifice and the glass was a «chalice» from which Hardin drank the
blood of the
animals he
sacrificed for Satan.