(August 27, 2015 at 10:05 am)Napoléon Wrote:(August 27, 2015 at 9:02 am)Drich Wrote: Christ was the final sacrifice ever needed for atonement. To continue on shedding blood for atonement is to ignore what God has done to put an end to the blood shed.
To put an end to the bloodshed he gave us bloodshed.
Surely god in all his infinite wisdom could have done something a little less barbaric and a little more convincing.
To what end?
What God did was provide us a physical example of the Spiritual pain He endured to 'forgive our sins.' The reason the final sacrifice was so 'barbaric' was so we may know the level of pain/could phathom the cost experienced by Him.