Just realized this

[Crusading_Canuk]

Hi, a few minutes ago when I was praying the Devotion of the Drops of Blood Christ shed during His Passion, I realized this interesting contrast between Christianity and th pagan religions. In the different pagan religions, their false “gods” have “demanded” offerings of human blood as sacrafice. But throughout all the religions of the world there is only one in which its God sheds His Blood so His faithful can live. Something to think about…

 

[mom2em]

Indeed. That* is* something to think about. Thank you for sharing it.

 

[white_sheep]

Just my personal thoughts here, but I’ve always seen it as the devil’s mockery of God. The pagan sacrifices are merely mockeries of the real sacrifice of the passion. This is true in a number of things I have compared it to.

 

[Iotaunum]

The pagan concept of sacrafice to a deity or deities comes from the legitimate sacrafice of the Old Law where God would command sacraficing animals on altars as a prefiguring of the Sacrafice of Christ on Calvary. The devil soon encouraged those who wandered from Gods family to sacrafice animals to false Gods (devils according to St Paul) and set up idols. Thus Human sacrafice to false gods was the next step in the devils plan. It is sad to see athiests and protestants twist this history in order to falsly accuse the Church of adopting ancient pagan pracitices, when true sacrafices originated from God.

 

[Zacdecat]

I have pondered without resolution…if the Blood of Our Redeemer was required for our salvation…why was the circumcision insufficient?

 

[MarkThompson]

I have pondered without resolution…if the Blood of Our Redeemer was required for our salvation…why was the circumcision insufficient?

Circumcision is not a sacrifice.

Theologically, I don’t think it’s precisely true that Christ’s blood as such was required for our salvation, in the sense that he could not have been executed by hanging or poison. (Obviously, he would not have said “this is my blood, which will be poured out” if his death were to have happened otherwise.) It is the death itself that is a salvific sacrifice. That is why Christ’s bleeding from other causes (circumcision; a carpentry accident perhaps?) has no redemptive value.

 

[Judge_Mental]

Lots of religions offered animal sacrifices (and sometimes human ones). Want something from a god? Offer something in return.