Sacrifices for Sin

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 From: TFTW Bible Collge

In the Old Testament, people rebelled against God’s commandments as we do today.  That is sin.  God told the Jews in the Old Testament what He wanted to be done by the people when this happened.  It involved a sacrifice.  It’s really no different than what we do today.  If I drive recklessly and crash into your car, you might ask for payment to cover the damages to your car.  I would then have to sacrifice my money to make up for the damage I caused. God told the Jews in the Old Testament to sacrifice part of what they had after they had rebelled against Him and sinned.

Those sacrifices could involve animals. So, the goat that would be sacrificed would be the one to pay for the sins of man. It wasn’t the goat’s fault, but it had to take the blame. It was a scapegoat!

The animal was not the sin, but it was an offering, a sacrifice, to pay the penalty for sins. The problem, however, was that these sacrifices couldn’t really take away the sin completely. The sins were only “rolled back” for a time. In fact, the blood of bulls and goats could not fully take away sin. The writer of Hebrews makes reference to these sacrifices from the Old Testament. “But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.” (Hebrews 10:3-4) The reason is that the sacrifices made were not equivalent to the debt owed.

Imagine you owed a debt of $1,000 to a bank. The bank will charge interest on the debt for the service of offering you the loan. That means you really have to pay more than $1,000 to pay back the loan. If you go into the bank and pay just the interest, the bank may happily accept that payment and state that you don’t have to pay anything else for a while. But, the loan is still there. You still owe the money, you just postponed paying it back. The amount you paid is not equivalent to the amount owed!

The same is true with animal sacrifices. They did offer a form of payment to God, but what was owed was a perfect man, not a perfect goat. God created man perfect, but when man sinned, God lost a perfect man. Only a perfect man could restore back to God what He had lost.


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