(May 11, 2017 at 10:18 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Lek Wrote:If I commit murder, it doesn't absolve me of my sins. The only blood that does is the blood of Jesus. That is the only blood sacrifice that saves us. The old testament sacrifices were useless to absolve anyone from sin.
What WERE all those animal sacrifices for, anyway? God liked the smell of burning animal flesh (it's mentioned almost 40 times), sure, but was that all there was to it?
They were foreshadowing the sacrifice of Jesus.