(October 5, 2010 at 11:42 am)Watson Wrote: Christ's sacrifice was for humanity; through His sacrifice and actions, He sent a message to humanity of God's love and devotion. He was setting an example by which to live so as to bring oneself closer to God's grace and love. Those who learned from that sacrifice were who the sacrifice was for; those who did not learn from the sacrifice were unaccepting of God in the first place, and remained(or remain to this day) that way. The sacrifice was not to appease God's wrath towards sin; it was to relieve people of their sin, via learning from the sacrifice and message, so that they would not condemn themselves to a life seperated from God.
It was an act of love and tolerance, is that so hard to understand?
Animal sacrifices and Jesus' sacrifice are not the same thing. It's comparing apples to oranges, splitting-hairs, nitpicking or what have you. You're applying rules applied to one scenario which do not apply to another, to the other.
