The
painting depicts the continual offerings and sacrifices practiced in
the Tabernacle and the Temple.
Today,
points are shared on existence, sin, animal sacrifices, and why the
Son of GOD dying on the cross was required. Sin, that now may be
recognized, rejected, and resisted must be permanently eliminated by
the workings of divinity; and the fruit of redemption and divine
salvation must exist as eternal. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers”
public forum on Religion and Spirituality, who uses the ID “Weedy”
(Level 1 with 102 points, a member since October 17, 2018) posted the
following:
Why
did god have to sacrifice his son? Couldn't he just of sacarfise an
animal?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to
come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats
and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy
place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the
blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much
more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God? And for this cause he is the mediator
of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of
the transgressions that were under the first testament, they
which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
(Hebrews 9: 11-15, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Changed And Made Christ-like? (06/19/2018); Jesus
Paid It All (04/04/2018); Yes, Jesus Did Die (04/01/2018); Divine
Priesthood on Earth (01/31/2018); Divine Wrath Against Sin?
(10/17/2017); Salvation Goes Beyond Forgiveness (06/30/2017);
Consecrated in Christ? (06/21/2014); Why Blood? (04/13/2013); Time
Before the Sun? (04/14/2013)
“Weedy”,
from my view, answering your question requires speaking to the truth
for Christian believers that GOD is the source of all that has
existence; here are some important points to consider:
1)
Despite that the angels, mankind, and other living creatures (e.g.,
animals, sacred beasts in heaven; the 24 Elders) must contain life
essence from the makeup of GOD (we say, breath; spirit; word),
many do not correctly display and perform according to the character,
nature, personhood, eternal purpose, and process of divinity. The
living again must become subject to the operations of divine will.
2)
The offense against divinity by Adam must be realized as directed
against the personal aspects of divine fullness. Animal blood only
has been used to give a picture, and illustrate the simple (yet
profound) operations by Spirit that must be used to restore the
original possibilities provided to Creation and mankind. Blood is a
carnal, material substance that carries life to all the organs and
tissues of a living body, and blood itself is not life. It is
impossible for a material thing to eliminate sin. Just as blood
carries life, divine spirit that establishes existence must be
emanated to the multiple appearances, expressions, forms, and vessels
that will contain divine being.
3)
Consciousness and self-will (we also say, willpower) within the
living may be dominated by sin; and sin is no ordinary material thing
that can be destroyed, removed, and resisted by relying on ones own
willpower. In this sense, sin does not exist, promotes nonexistence,
and restores conditions of chaos, confusion, and flux that were in
place before the founding of earth and heaven. Sin opposes the
continued existence of sacred law, the Lawgiver, and divine order
throughout the universe. Sin has not been created by GOD; contains
no divine substance; and does not respond to the will of GOD without
divine action.
4)
Sinners must become developing Christian believers by being “born
again” in water baptism, and receive fresh endowments of divine
will and other spirit substance from the makeup of GOD. Following
their rebirth, believers are challenged to “grow up again,” and
must mature and ripen as the offspring of GOD upon the earth.
Through discovery, gradual growth, fellowship, practice and study,
believers engage, apply, and display their own spirit content they
have received as offspring of the Creator, and joint heirs with Jesus
Christ. Included are faith, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness,
righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
5)
Divinity is to be acknowledged as immortal, incorruptible, invisible,
and unchanging; yet, GOD makes divinity known, approachable, and
accessible as active presence and as sacred fullness (we say,
the Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit). GOD is not an
abstraction, or mental construct projected from the imagination or
mind of mankind; and GOD willingly communicates and interacts with
the living (we say, maintains living relationship) using frameworks
that respond to their integrity and wholeness.
6)
There are multiple aspects of existence and divine process used by
GOD that respond to the condition of the living as conscious, finite,
mortal, temporal, and having separate self-will. The eternal sacred
processes of GOD (e.g., atonement, Incarnation, proclamation,
promise, prophecy, revelation) are subject to interruption by death
of the living (we say, sleep), and therefore must also be directed to
balance, closure, completeness, finality, fulfillment, preparation,
and resolution.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. For example: 7) The holy writings provide a record of
actions already taken by GOD appearing to, and through created beings
and living creatures using thousands of events, within thousands of
lives, over the course of thousands of years. The Scriptures also
describe actions now in progress and that are to be completed by the
living acting in accord with divinity. Included are the first and
second resurrection of the dead; judgment of the righteous followed
by that of the wicked; the distribution of rewards to the righteous;
and the second death. Even so, I trust this fragment will be
useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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