Sacrifices in Leviticus

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There are many types of sacrifices detailed in Leviticus. Why were so many of them so bloody and included the sacrifice of animals?
 
Leviticus is the handbook for Levitical priests regarding covenant renewal following the idolotry of the golden calf.

The animals sacrificed are those that were venerated by Egyptians (and the Hebrew idolators). They are killed daily as their penance for worshipping false idols.
 
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Didi:
Leviticus is the handbook for Levitical priests regarding covenant renewal following the idolotry of the golden calf.

The animals sacrificed are those that were venerated by Egyptians (and the Hebrew idolators). They are killed daily as their penance for worshipping false idols.
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But even prior to the golden calf, the people were sacrificing animals in a bloody manner, weren’t they?
 
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Didi:
Leviticus is the handbook for Levitical priests regarding covenant renewal following the idolotry of the golden calf.

The animals sacrificed are those that were venerated by Egyptians (and the Hebrew idolators). They are killed daily as their penance for worshipping false idols.
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To add to this, these sacrifices were necessary to renounce sin. Salvation from sin could not occur until the one, perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Until that time, this sacrifice had to be prefigured through the visualization of sin’s effects on the soul.
 
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Journeyman:
But even prior to the golden calf, the people were sacrificing animals in a bloody manner, weren’t they?
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I agree with you Journeyman,

Like Abraham, father of all Israel (the multitude lead out of Egypt whom some created the golden calf), perhaps? Abraham sacrificed an animal in place of Isaac, after being tested by God.
 
I’m no Bible scholar, but I think sacrifices were the symbol of covenant? The covenant required the shedding of blood, symbolizing the solemnity of the covenant, swearing by the life so to speak…fulfilled in Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross instituting the New Covenant in His blood. The OT sacrifices help us understand the NT sacrifice.
 
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Brad:
To add to this, these sacrifices were necessary to renounce sin. Salvation from sin could not occur until the one, perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Until that time, this sacrifice had to be prefigured through the visualization of sin’s effects on the soul.
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Hello Brad,

Actually animal sacrifices did take away sin according to God. I think it is like celibrating real presence in the Eucharist at the Last Supper before Christ’s death. The only way God can forgive sins is through the blood of Jesus. The only way animal sacrifices can take away sin is to be linked to Jesus death as the Eucharist is. The power of the first Eucharist at the Last Supper is not a “prefigurement”. The Last Supper possessed all the spiritual power of Christ’s death that post Jesus’ death Eucharists posesses. The Last Supper Eucharist power to forgive sin is the same as the Eucharists of today. Physical time has no control or power over real presence in the Eucharist or Christ’s power to forgive sin throug His death, .

**NAB2 NUM 15:22 **

"When through inadvertence you fail to carry out any of these commandments which the LORD gives to Moses, and through Moses to you, from the time the LORD first issues the commandment down through your generations: if the community itself unwittingly becomes guilty of the fault of inadvertence, the whole community shall offer the holocaust of one young bull as a sweet-smelling oblation pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed cereal offering and libation, as well as one he-goat as a sin offering. Then the priest shall make atonement for the whole Israelite community; thus they will be forgiven the inadvertence for which they have brought their holocaust as an oblation to the LORD. Not only the whole Israelite community, but also the aliens residing among you, shall be forgiven, since the fault of inadvertence affects all the people. "However, if it is an individual who sins inadvertently, he shall bring a yearling she-goat as a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement before the LORD** for him who sinned inadvertently; when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven. You shall have but one law for him who sins inadvertently, whether he be a native Israelite or an alien residing with you. “But anyone who sins defiantly, whether he be a native or an alien, insults the LORD, and shall be cut off from among his people. Since he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, he must be cut off. He has only himself to blame.” While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him. **Then the LORD said to Moses, “This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp.” **So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses. **
 
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Hello Brad,

Actually animal sacrifices did take away sin according to God. I think it is like celibrating real presence in the Eucharist at the Last Supper before Christ’s death. The only way God can forgive sins is through the blood of Jesus. The only way animal sacrifices can take away sin is to be linked to Jesus death as the Eucharist is. The power of the first Eucharist at the Last Supper is not a “prefigurement”. The Last Supper possessed all the spiritual power of Christ’s death that post Jesus’ death Eucharists posesses. The Last Supper Eucharist power to forgive sin is the same as the Eucharists of today. Physical time has no control or power over real presence in the Eucharist or Christ’s power to forgive sin throug His death, .

**NAB2 NUM 15:22 **

"When through inadvertence you fail to carry out any of these commandments which the LORD gives to Moses, and through Moses to you, from the time the LORD first issues the commandment down through your generations: if the community itself unwittingly becomes guilty of the fault of inadvertence, the whole community shall offer the holocaust of one young bull as a sweet-smelling oblation pleasing to the LORD, along with its prescribed cereal offering and libation, as well as one he-goat as a sin offering. Then the priest shall make atonement for the whole Israelite community; thus they will be forgiven the inadvertence for which they have brought their holocaust as an oblation to the LORD. Not only the whole Israelite community, but also the aliens residing among you, shall be forgiven, since the fault of inadvertence affects all the people. "However, if it is an individual who sins inadvertently, he shall bring a yearling she-goat as a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement before the LORD**** for him who sinned inadvertently; when atonement has been made for him, he will be forgiven. You shall have but one law for him who sins inadvertently, whether he be a native Israelite or an alien residing with you. “But anyone who sins defiantly, whether he be a native or an alien, insults the LORD, and shall be cut off from among his people. Since he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, he must be cut off. He has only himself to blame.” While the Israelites were in the desert, a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day. Those who caught him at it brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly. But they kept him in custody, for there was no clear decision as to what should be done with him. **Then the LORD said to Moses, “This man shall be put to death; let the whole community stone him outside the camp.” **So the whole community led him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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God may have forgiven them but their could be no salvation through any of those sacrifices - that came through Christ. They could not be re-united with God because they had broken the covenant and the curse was death. God restored all of the covenants through the new covenant of Jesus Christ.
 
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