Sentences with phrase «sacrificial system»

And under the New Covenant made possible by Jesus sacrificial death, the old sacrificial system of offering innocent unwilling animals to atone for sin was also done away with.

The temple was supposed to have been a house of prayer for all nations, nut the Jews created a bloody sacrificial system.

To meet that situation the whole sacrificial system was created.

If we study the book of Hebrews we see blood was an essential part of the old sacrificial system.

The sacrificial system, for He was the final sacrifice.

The culture was no longer dominantly agrarian as it was in the Old Testament when the sacrificial system was installed.

I see a Christ dying to invite us into God's presence and also doing away with the sacrificial system once and for all — and including the Gentiles fully in the process (according to Paul and the gospels).

The prophets, including Jesus, challenged the temple and its worship services, the sacrificial system to gain forgiveness, the priestly hierarchy to mediate God's grace, the separation of people based on nationality, gender, and wealth, and basically, everything that religion requires to hold itself together.

Most people think that the Temple and sacrificial system was the way to receive forgiveness of sins.

As stated in my comment, I do not believe the sacrificial system was «for receiving forgiveness of sins.»

Jeremy, To be chasing this a little further... if in His life Jesus taught the people to bypass the sacrificial system, then of what value was His fulfillment of the system He had already circumvented?

Joshua, the «law» you speak of that has been done away with is the sacrificial system of killing animals as an atonement for our sins.

He was telling people to bypass the Temple and the Priesthood and the Sacrificial system.

Jesus certainly pointed this out, but the Holy Spirit was pointing it out all along, as a concept embodied in the sacrificial system itself.

This was never the purpose of the sacrificial system.

So before we can talk about what exactly Jesus fulfilled through his sacrificial death on the cross, we must understand what the sacrificial system was for.

The main things I think that Jesus was «bypassing» was the priestly class as mediators between God and man, the sacrificial system as the method for receiving forgiveness of sins, and the Temple as the locus of God's presence.

It seems to me that we have re-installed the sacrificial system (that Jesus had done away with) in an extent like never before!

This realization, moreover, helps make sense of John's emphasis on Israel's sacrificial system and festivals — the feasts of Booths (7:10 — 39), Hanukkah (10:22 — 30), and Passover (chapters 13 — 19)-- as ideal venues for proclamations of Jesus's identity.

After the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the study of Torah was equated with the worship of God and replaced the sacrificial system of the Temple.