However, once God opened up my eyes that I deserved damnation as a sinner, I finally surrendered and accepted the atonement of Christ
as sacrifice for my sin by faith, and a heavy burden was lifted off my back, and I have a clean conscience before God, and I also felt the power of God saving me from my sins.
While Hebrews 10:26 explains the tough truth about habitual sin and the lack of grace for it («For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains sacrifice for sins»), habitual sin is a part of tons of Christians» lives.
In His grace and mercy, God instituted a
substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of Adam and Eve, one that clothed them in a temporary righteousness and allowed them to live until the seeds of death planted in them came to fruition some 900 years later.
Jesus's main reason in being born was to reconcile man to God as well as to
sacrifice himself for our sins so that mankind would have the opportunity to arrive at the life that God intended for us in the first place.
Galatians 5 summarizes Paul's argument, and says that if you try to go back to keeping the Law in order to be saved, rather than accept Jesus»
sacrifice for sin in faith, you will go to Hell.
5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, «SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; 6 IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND
sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.
And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this I'm hearing about a human sacrifice for your sins!?
The cross represents your so perfect god having his own
child sacrificed for the sins of people who don't even exist and this makes sense to you??? All that cross means is torture... what it means to you as christian is it's evidence for this great gift your god has apparently bestowed upon the world and yet once again your only backing for that is the bible.
I'm looking forward to Easter weekend with my family and remembering Christ's
sacrifice for my sins through His coming to earth, His death, and most importantly, His resurrection.
But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of Washington, D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive or both be
sacrificed for their sins against the state.
I can agree God does not want sacrifice and never did, while simultaneously affirm he requires
blood sacrifice for sin.
It's unique among modern religions in that human sacrifice:» (Jesus) is the
atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.»
Jesus died for all of the sins of the human race, all sins are forgiven, for by one, and only one,
sacrifice for sins forever, Hebrews 10:12.
8 After saying above, «SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND
sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them» (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, «BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.»
He then gave HImself as
a sacrifice for our sins.
Many Christians have told me throughout my life that God gave the world Jesus, «his only begotten son», as the ultimate «
sacrifice for our sins».
He did all that is necessary for us to «have a relationship» with God by becoming
the sacrifice for sin, and now the way to relationship with God is open and available for any who desire it.
He sent Jesus to be
sacrificed for our sins.
It makes sense why an animal had to die in place of a person as a sacrifice, it makes sense as to why Our Lord have himself as
a sacrifice for our sins and undeservedly took our punishment (which was a painful and humiliating death)(what a loving Lord we serve!)