Need your help with Psalm 50

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Does the blood of bulls and goats take away sins? (See Hebrews 10:4)
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In the Old Testament God commanded a yearly sacrifice of bulls or goats to atone for sin. But in the New Testament book of Hebrews (I think, working from memory), it says that those sacrifices had to be done yearly because they were imperfect. It contrasts with the sacrifice of Jesus, which WAS and IS perfect.
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jesusmademe said:
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Why then did they make the sacrifice?
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Ascending offering (Olah) expresses the desire for divine communion, and expiates sins. (One tainted with sin cannot commune.)

Leviticus has five sacrifices:
  1. Ascending offering (Olah) - whole animal was burned in the altar fire.
  2. Well being (Zevach Sh’lamim) - the fat, kidneys, and part of the liver burned in the altar fire but most of the animal was divided between the priests and the offerer for eating.
  3. Sin purification (Chatat) to atone for and purge an intentional sin - goat or sheep or birds or an offering of grain flour, depending upon wealth was offered and burned.
  4. Responsibility (Asham) - guilt offering for a uncertain wrongdoing - the fat, kidneys, and part of the liver burned in the altar fire but most of the animal was divided between the priests and the offerer for eating.
  5. Gift (Minchah) - fine flour or unleavened baked goods with oil burned with incense in the altar fire with remainder to the priests. Nesekh - undiluted wine. These show the devotion of the fruits of man’s work to God.
Numbers 19 has one:
  • Red Heifer (Numbers 19) Parah Adumah - to purify people from the defilement caused by contact with the dead.
 
VeryBlessed said:
In the Old Testament God commanded a yearly sacrifice of bulls or goats to atone for sin.
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Yes, but… I can atone for sins, and yet, that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ve received divine forgiveness for them… right?

In the Mosaic covenant, the Yom Kippur sacrifice represented the atonement of the community… not the forgiveness of individuals, no?
 
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