Another question for Christians

[CoxRox]

Why does blood sacrifice make everything better?

By "make everything better" I mean enable God to forgive our sins.

As someone who believes that Jesus' death was not in vain, I often ponder these points. Before Jesus was killed (as the Passover Lamb), the Jewish sacrificial system involved animals. The animals were not killed JUST to be offered as sacrifices. They served as food for the people - so this is not wanton killing in order to appease an angry God. The life of the animal is represented in it's blood and hence the sprinkling of blood etc. Interestingly, other nations have had human sacrifices. The Israelites did not have human sacrifices. It was abhorrent to God.

When Jesus was killed by the Romans and Jewish leaders, they did not imagine, that they were offering up Jesus as some sort of sacrifice to God. Jesus gave His life willingly (He sacrificed it) ie He allowed evil to take it's course. The Romans and Jewish leaders meant evil in killing Jesus, but God meant it for good. I don't begin to understand and appreciate why Jesus had to die, or how His death brings reconciliation, but I get tantilising glimpses and understand that death is not the end now. Jesus conquered death and was the first fruit of the dead, to be raised to immortal life, and He promises to grant that immortal life to those who belong to Him. What an amazing man is He.