How can Jews expect to have their sins forgiven without the shedding of blood?

Question

The Old Testament is clear: The forgiveness of sins requires the shedding of blood. Modern Jews no longer offer the animal sacrifices that are prescribed in the Law of Moses.

Jesus is the Lamb of God. His once and for all sacrifice forgives all the sins of the world. All you have to do is believe on Him and your sins are forgiven.

Answer 1

Any Jewish person who claims no shedding of blood for forgiveness of sins was required by God is doing a total body-swerve around the annual Day of Atonement for the national guilt of Israel, once every year. Various animals needed to be slain and their blood used in seeking God's forgiveness. This was a massive lesson God was teaching them about how serious sin is. Why, the very birth of the nation required the blood of a lamb to be brushed over the doorposts of the Hebrews so that God's angel of death would pass over them and Israelites celebrated the annual Passover every year thereafter! Exodus 12:13 & 24:8 & Leviticus 16:15. God told them that life is represented by the blood, which is why they must not eat food with blood in it (Leviticus 17:11). Jews who observe Atonement, Passover, and kosher laws are totally missing the point God teaches about what blood symbolises.



Why do Jews now seem indifferent to this lesson? Two reasons - they never got the point via the Mosaic laws, and - since AD 70 when their temple is Jerusalem was destroyed, they cannot carry out the sacrifices in their law. The latter forced a new system of still worshipping God without recourse to animal sacrifices as part of that system. Theology had to be 'adjusted' to fit the changed circumstances.



If only they had known the point of the Law when Jesus of Nazareth became the only perfect sacrifice for sin there has ever been, and discovered once-and-for-all cleansing of their sin by coming 'under' His shed blood, they would have experienced the truth of the lesson God would teach them. Then they would have known that all animal sacrifices were pointing towards the reality of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29). They still can, however. It's not too late.

Answer 2

Jews can have their sins forgiven just like Christians. All they have to do is believe that Jesus is the Messiah. There are plenty of Jews who believe. They care called Messianic Jews. The same goes for Gentiles (non-Jews). They can have their sins forgiven, too, if they will believe that Jesus died for their sins, and accept Him as their personal Savior. There are plenty of people in the world who are in the same situation as the Jews who do not accept Jesus as the one true living God, the Savior who shed His blood for the redemption of mankind.



Also consider this: It takes not only believing in Jesus, but also obeying Him, to keep your name written in the Book of Life. It would be easy for lots of people to say they are Christians, when they don't obey the ten commandments, and don't have a personal relationship with the Lord. Check out the "Lord, Lord" phrases in the New Testament. Remember that the only thing you can take with you to heaven are your character (personality) and your friends. So make the effort to shape a character fit for heaven, and show your friends how much better a life they can have, even here on Earth, with Jesus as their Master.

Answer 3

IN SHORT... If a person believes that a blood sacrifice were necessary in order for Gd to forgive human sin, then that person forgot to study the Five Books of Moses. Even a single example where Gd forgave without a blood sacrifice would prove that this idea is unbiblical. There are many such examples, but the most interesting is found in the Book of Leviticus. The reason this is so interesting is that it appears right in the middle of the discussion of sin sacrifices. In Leviticus 5:11-13, it states,'If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering.' In Jonah 3:10, we also see that one does not need a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. There, the Bible simply states that Gd saw the works of the people of Niniveh. Specifically it says that these works consisted of abandoning their evil ways, and because they did, Gd forgave them. There are many other examples. Therefore, as was stated earlier, the idea that one needs a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins is unbiblical.

Answer 4

How can Jews expect to have their sins forgiven without the shedding of blood?



- Typical fundie psychopathology.

Answer 5

The New Testament is also clear, in John 3:16. God sent Jesus because he loved us all--loved "the world."



You can't love someone and hold a grudge. Our sins were forgiven, according to Jesus, before he died.



The shedding of blood was a ritual--a way that people could show they were asking for, and ready to accept, forgiveness. Like any ritual, it was for their benefit.



Your logic argues that God can't forgive us without a ritual. God isn't bound by our limits. You cannot limit his grace, his forgiveness, his redemption, except by refusing them, and then only on your own behalf, not on anyone else's.

Answer 6

Most Jews, even the religious ones, do not really believe in an afterlife.

Answer 7

The Old Testament God, YHVH(YHWH) said all you have to do to be forgiven of sin is to ask Him(YHVH) and he will forgive any who ask with a sincere heart.

Answer 8

Jews descend from Cain so ipso facto also Satan

Answer 9

Ask a Jew and fined out.