Pearl Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? God wanted us to realize that sin is a horrible act against God and that it is costly and must be atoned for. We are to live holy before God without sin. This shows us that we are serving a holy God and we are to be holy for He is holy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgc1957 Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Because of who God is, Jesus, being the ultimate sacrifice was the plan all along. But because of how stupid we are, God had to allow us to see how forgiveness was recieved initially, so that we would appreciate and recieve His ultimate plan. We have to see our sinfulness before we can appreciate His holiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgc1957 Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 There has to be a penalty for it. If we were living before Christ, we would have to have known that it was us or the unblemished animal for forgivness. Now we have to see that it is us with eternal punishment or for us to choose Jesus as our Savior as our forgivness. God demands holiness in our lives for Him to be able to look upon us, His nature demands it. Our nature is not able to supply that requirement. So we have to depend on Jesus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esther414 Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? What do they teach us about holiness? What do they teach us about God's nature? God intended animal sacrifice teach us atonement for sin required a costly sacrifice. It taught us God is holy and we can't enter into his presence with sin. The animal's blood provided a way for God to communicate and forgive man. Even though the animal sacrifice was insufficient, God was willing to accept it so we would not be apart from him. He loves us that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janel Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 Q6 Life of an animal is in the blood and so is human. It is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. So God accepts animal sacrifice as a substitute for human's sins as a way that justice can be done and man's sins can be atoned for and they can approach God once more. God is holy, unless humans are cleansed from their sins, they cannot approached His holy presence. 'We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and God dwells in us; If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him for the temple is holy, and that is what you are. (1 Cor. 3:16-17). God is a loving, merciful, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. Ever ready to forgive our sins whenever we confess our sins to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? Sin is serious and the shedding of blood, no matter the source, is serious for the atonement of that sin. God is teaching us that sin is serious and taking life is serious. We should take sin seriously too. God is holy and does not tolerate sin. We should be holy and not tolerate sin too. Serious is the bottom line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanMary Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? I think He was trying to teach that the life is in the blood, and the shed life-blood of the animal was the only thing which He would accept as a sacrifice to cover sin. That sin is a serious transgression of His holiness, and that a costly, innocent scapegoat's blood would be the only acceptable offering. He was teaching that sin can't be ignored or swept under the rug of denial because it affects the sinner, those around the sinner and Himself as well. Having to kill the animal oneself was a gruesome task leaving blood on one's hands (a vivid picture of guilt) to encourage the sinner to admit and take responsibility for his/her sin and hopefully to be sorry enough to repent. He was teaching that this offering when brought in the proper way, would result in forgiveness and cleansing...a fresh start with God, and restored fellowship. Guilt caused Adam and Eve to hide from God when they sinned, yet He sought them out, killed an animal (first blood sacrifice) Himself to clothe or cover their sin and fallen nature. About holiness? He was teaching that His holiness can't "wink" at sin, but rather His justice requires blood to cover the sin, and in His generous, giving nature He Himself provides the way of escape from the transgression. I love the picture of the lamb with it's feet bound at the first of this lesson. What a picture of our bondage to sin and our fallen nature...until He sets us free through the shed blood of our Savior, Jesus. About God's nature? He was demonstrating Who He is...a holy God, a loving God who desires fellowship with His children, but that it has to be on His terms in order to satisfy His nature of both holiness and justice. It shows His mercy in providing a way back to Him after transgressing His holiness. It shows His grace in that the sinner isn't condemned but forgiven when the offering was presented. It shows His Sovereignty, in that everything belongs to Him...both man and animal, and that He has set up His Kingdom in a way that works for everyone when we obey Him. (The animal provided food after it was sacrificed) He's a reaching God, and He was revealing Himself in this to His creation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion of Grace Posted July 2, 2010 Report Share Posted July 2, 2010 God intended to teach us that sin has serious consequences and they are a matter of life and death. I think He wants all to see the cost of sin. It has a price and someone/something always has to pay, often the innocent or those not guilty. This should really make us reflect even more on our choices. He gives an understanding too I think of the sacredness of life and the seriousness of how we choose to live our lives. Pouring out of blood is giving all for atonement. This was a forerunner of understanding what Jesus would do for us. Pouring out "life giving" blood for our sins. That's profound. God is teaching that He is holy. That though He is a God of mercy, He is a just God too. He doesn't and can't overlook sin, but He loves us enough to provide for a way when we sin. He wants us to be holy as He is holy and yet knows who and what we are. He shows His compassion in this. God in His very nature can not be with sin because He is holy and by His Son, we are now healed and can come into His presence. God is showing His nature and I think we often miss it! He IS loving and compassionate and kind to those who are in Christ Jesus. I don't think there is anything done not motivated by love or for our good. From the beginning He's had a love story with us and Jesus was there. We are mere creations....but not only did Jesus come to save, but God himself declared "Good will to men" and gave His only begotten Son so that none would perish but have eternal life. Now we have The Holy Spirit with us to guide and help us....so I'd say His nature is more than compassionate and a love like we have never known! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephine Koh Posted August 5, 2010 Report Share Posted August 5, 2010 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? (1)Sin must be cleansed by the shed of blood. (2) God cannot tolerate unholiness. Sin will cause us to be separated from God. (3)God is forgiving and merciful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debbi Posted November 19, 2010 Report Share Posted November 19, 2010 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? there is consequences to our sins and God teaches us that through sacrifices and God's holiness requires the atonement for our sins. God's nature is also one of love and loving and through this love he sent His only Son Jesus so we would not have to do animal sacrifices anymore, but we still need to confess our sins and ask for forgiveness. By confessing our sins through Jesus we are allowed to have a more devout and loving relationship with God. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Mae Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? God's Teachings: Sin That it is very serious, costly and can not be overlooked. Sin carries consequences that require payment. That a person must give up something of value in payment for the disobedience that was done. Today we are required to die to self. A task that is not easily done with our sinful nature and how hard it is at times to seperate ourselves from worldly pleasures and values. In ancient times people gave up a valuable possesion to atone for their sins. They laid it on the alter and gave over their sin to God for forgiveness. Today we lay down our sins on the alter by giving over our sins to Jesus, laying them at His feet in repentence for our disobedience. Instantly we are forgiven and brought into right relationship with God. What a gracious gift, one that is so easily taken for granted, but one that should remind us of just how AWESOME our God is and how much he loves us. He is totally undescribable, to beautiful for words! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Mae Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? Contiued comment on Question #6 Holiness Holiness is our ultimate goal, to become perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect. Though we will never obtain this prefection we are to strive to be holy as we press on toward the goal to one day be united with God forever in Heaven on the day of redemption! "Oh what a day of rejoicing that will be, when we all see Jesus we'll sing and shout the Victory"! God's Nature God is loving, compassionate, forgiving, our provider in all that we need. He values us! Our relatinship with Him is so precious that it comes at a high price but with an extreme and awesome reward. John 3:16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerneydr Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? I think God wanted to show us that sin is horrible and required a bloody death for atonement. I think He wanted to show us the principle of substitution where one could take the place of another in that death but that it required personal involvement. I think that God also wanted to point to Christ the one to come as the all sufficient sacrifice for our sins. About holiness? God wanted to illustrate that His holiness is such that sin could not be overlooked but had to punished by death. About God's nature? Along with His holiness, God is also loving and compassionate and he found a way to redeem mankind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubilee Posted March 5, 2011 Report Share Posted March 5, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? God is a Holy God and he cannot condone and connive sin. He is a Spirit and therefore he must be worship in Spirit. Nothing filthy can enter into his rest. That is why God intended animal sacrifice to teach us that you can sin and then walk into my presence like that. We need to atone for our sins. God is holy and therefore our approach to him must show holiness on our part. We need to purge the sin out of our system before we can approach him. God is a righteous God. He is full of mercy. That is why we must be imitators of God. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvoryEagle Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? One way or another, there is a price to be paid; there is no "free" sin. About holiness? Purity is always the object. The cleansing of sin is always advancing toward holiness. About God's nature? He wishes NOT that any should perish. He is ever providing a way for man to repent. 2 Peter 3:8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IvoryEagle Posted March 6, 2011 Report Share Posted March 6, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr4624 Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? God was trying to teach people how absolutely horrible sin is from His perspective, Yes, there is the message that sin must be paid for and it must be paid for with the lifeblood of the sinner...except God made provision for a substitution to be made. When I think about the scene that was surrounding the altar in the Temple and in the Tabernacle before that, the main thing that comes to my mind is the bloodiness and the smell. It must have been horrible! It was a place where all day long innocent animals had to give their lives in order for the sinning people to made right with God. All day, their throats were cut, they were disemboweled, their blood was thrown on the sides of the altar, their flesh and entrails were burned. What a sight! What a smell! What a terrible, awful thing! I believe all of it was to illustrate to the people what a terrible, awful thing their sin was from God's perspective. It teaches us that God is holy. He loves us more than anything else He created, but His holiness cannot abide any unholiness or sin. Therefore, the sins must be paid for before the person can be reckoned holy and allowed to be near God for eternity. Holiness implies justice and justice must be evenhanded and impartial to be justice. Sacrifice teaches us that God is holy and that He is just and righteous. It also teaches us that He is love and that He is merciful because He made a way for the payment for our penalty for sin to made for us by Jesus. Imagine the love that allows an only son to take on all of the awful depravity and corruption and hideousness of every person's sin for all time and pay all of our penalties at once (like billions or even trillions of animal sacrifices at once!) so that we can all be made righteous and holy in the sight of our holy God. We can't even begin to really imagine love like that, but we can respond to it by giving our entire lives and beings to Him by faith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jubilee Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 Q6. What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? God intended animal sacrifice to teach us that sin separates us from communion with God - spiritual death. God abhors sin - he hates sin. Sin, if committed must be atoned for. And that the "wages of sin is death." (Rom. 6:23) God intended animal sacrifice to teach us about sin: about holiness - he is holy and perfect. No filthy thing can enter his throne room. Everything must be purged before approaching him. God intended animal sacrifice to teach us about: about God's nature - God is love. He is a righteous God. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haar Posted March 12, 2011 Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 God intended to teach us that just as killing the animal and shedding its blood looked horrible, our sins are horrible in the sight of a holy God and a penalty must be paid by us. Fortunately for us, God is holy but loving, gracious and merciful in nature and could therfore not bear to see us pay such a high costly penalty, hense the animals substituted the sinners in the old days and the Lab of God- my substitute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Posted March 16, 2011 Report Share Posted March 16, 2011 Sometimes we tend to take sin lightly, but God showed us that this cannot be, when each time we sin, that sin must be paid for with the sacrificial blood of the best of the flock. God shows us how to be holy by asking us to give Him the best and by doing everything in the exact order and way He has shown us. God is a Holy God and must be obeyed in everything he tells us to do. Don't try to give Him second best, for it is Not acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Christina Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 The fact that an animal has to die to make up for something wrong shows how grave sin is. The exchange for it has to be death. God is so far from sin and He is so holy or "set apart" so much so that the greatest sacrifice of a life has to be in exchange to once again be closer to God. No animal sacrifice is enough though. Only Jesus paid the price for our salvation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foofee's Nana Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? About holiness? About God's nature? I think He intended for us to know the horror and price that had to be paid for sin....an animal was killed and their blood was spilled to cover our sin. God can not look on sin....so in order to have a relationship with us that He desires He must give us a way of forgiveness....by the gift of His beloved Son... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanks Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 What do you think God intended animal sacrifice teach us about sin? How God hates sin and the costliness of sin. All sin separates us from God and would require the ultimate sacrifice to atone for it. What do they teach us about holiness? What do they teach us about God's nature? God Himself is the Most Holy One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffb Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Sin is repulsive, it is an affront to God Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newwine50 Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 The Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world. (Rev. 13:8; 1 Pet. 1:20) When God created the world, He said that everything was good. Everything was good because the Lamb of God had already been slain. God had things covered. The only thing God told Adam and Eve they could not do was eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. When they ate of that tree, they saw their nakedness and hid in shame and fear. They tried to cover themselves with fig leaves but that was not acceptable to God. There had to be blood. God killed an animal and covered them with the skins. Abel kept flocks. Cain worked the soil. They both brought sacrifices to God. Abel's was acceptable - a blood sacrifice. Cain's was not. Cain was 'angry.' God told Cain that if he did what was right he would be accepted - presenting a blood sacrifice. If he didn't, sin crouched at the door - anger. God said that Cain should rule over that anger. He didn't and murdered his brother. Throughout the Old Testament, there was a constant flow of animal blood. I believe God did this to make us aware that blood is required and without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. The people saw a continuous flow of blood to make them know that there had to be blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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