Posted on 04/04/2015 1:22:39 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
You should really look at a siddur sometime, and maybe even try to take in a synagogue service.
I am very impressed with your knowledge of the old and new testaments, however I disagree with your assertion that animal sacrifice continued with Christians. They understood the significance of Jesus fulfillment of the sacrifice typology.
If would like to discuss it more there is lots of scripture support and it is a conversation/debate that has been going on for very long long time. I have to go out shortly and we probably should not hijack this thread but it is a very good topic to discuss if you want to.
You shouldn't assume your questioner is a child.
If you are right, the bottom line is that God and Jesus created literally millions of people who were doomed to permanent torture in infinite hell simply because they were created, with no chance whatsoever to avoid this fate, because God and Jesus did not choose them to be saved.
Therefore you are wrong, because your interpretation of Jesus'words is an expression of a God and Jesus of insane, monstrous hatred and madness, rather than divine love.
"Election" is not a "very large subject." It is not even a real subject at all. It is a delusion of madness, a following of false logic that gives a preposterous answer and therefore should be rejected on it's face. You might as well somehow derive Jesus' support for axe murderers and claim it to be a mysterious truth - it would be less of a conclusion than one having God creating people solely to damn them to eternal hell with no possibility of escape.
It's not rocket science. You simply can't have a God of love who also creates beings in order to torture them forever. The two don't go together, and there is no divine mystery to contemplate over it - it's just a wrong interpretation.
Your theology may demand it your abrogation of the offerings, but you should read Hebrews 9:13 and pay attention to the Greek verb tenses. The writer says that the blood of bulls and goats does (present tense) purify the flesh. You see, like most Christians, you assume that you know the purpose for all the offerings.
If you would study Leviticus 1-5, you would discover that of the 5 major offerings only 1 has a relationship to a person’s sin. The assumption is that all offerings are for sin. Most are not. The Hebrew kapur (cover/atone) does not relate to annulment of sin (take away), it relates to temporal covering. Those offerings (as Heb 9:13 indicates) protect the worshipper while in the immediate presence of the Holy One, blessed is He, when in the Temple worshipping.
How true. The level of ignorance about Judaism in most Christian circles is astounding. Falling back to stereotypical “faithless” christ-killers, they ignore the profoundly deep Scriptural knowledge of the Jewish people.
https://www.templeinstitute.org/events.htm
Historic Practice Passover Offering
Chag Sameach Pesach!
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