Comments on: The True Sacrifices of God

By: Shammah

Shammah — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:25:04 +0000

You’re welcome, Monster.

One point on John’s comment, too. The reason those quotes are all over the place in the early Christian writings is because they were talking about Jewish sacrifices, and they were not applying them to the atonement in the way that we do.

In fact, they applied them to communion primarily, and then to other spiritual sacrifices (like ourselves and praise and things like that).

How’s that for interesting?

Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of answers on that subject yet, just a lot of interesting things I’ve seen.

By: Monster

Monster — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:00:31 +0000

“If you look, you’ll notice that none of the sacrifice commands came until after the Israelites made the golden calf. It was at that point that God spoke about sacrifices, giving the Israelites a religious system that was for their sake, not God’s, to help keep them from wandering to other gods.”

Ah, that’s just the key I was looking for in explaining that verse. Thanks!

By: Shammah

Shammah — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:22:40 +0000

Amen to that last sentence for sure!

By: John Bob

John Bob — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:40:04 +0000

This can open up some really great discussion. Because if God never wanted the sacrifices to begin with, it sort of turns the whole though of Christ being a sacrifice on its head…

But I suppose this opens up the whole conversation about the atonement, which often makes my head sorta pop if I think to hard about it.

Anyway, I say that first thing because I know it’s been very life changing to clear away the misconceptions about why Christ came. It’s really liberating to get to know Him without the math equation of Him being the appeasement of the Father’s wrath, but instead, the fullness of the Father’s love.