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Animal Blood Sacrifices in the Bible, Why?

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Why did Elohim institute animal “blood sacrifices” under the Levitical Law given Israel’s children?

Animal blood sacrifices could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:4) but their purpose was two-fold:

1) The blood of animals, first exemplified in Genesis 3:21 following Adam’s compromise with evil and later enacted through Levitical Law as per Leviticus 17:11, foreshadowed the only acceptable atoning sacrifice for the sins of humanity; that is, the sinless blood of Jesus our Messiah shed at Golgotha which initiated the New Covenant and provided forgiveness of sin by New Covenant promise actuated by faith (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Hebrews 8:12; John 3:16).

2) From the beginning, “faith” has been the KEY to Elohim’s heart (Hebrews 11); that is, believing that Elohim is true and will do exactly as He has promised in His spoken and written words. It was NOT the blood sacrifice offered by the children of Israel that made one righteous or “right” with Elohim (Hebrews 10:4) but it was the “faith” of the one offering the sacrifice that engendered covenant righteousness (a right standing) with the Father.

With that said, those in the Old Testament who were made right with Elohim through faith were not permitted to enter Elohim’s presence in the Kingdom as the acceptable atonement via Messiah had not yet manifest as “nothing impure will ever enter therein” (Revelation 21:27); therefore, Old Testament saints were detained in Sheol-Paradise awaiting Messiah’s atonement and were subsequently escorted into the Kingdom by Messiah while His body of flesh lie in state for three-days (Luke 16; Psalm 16:10; Luke 23:43) .

In conclusion,

Torah and its laws, sacrifices, covenants, were simply a divine roadmap leading to our need for Messiah Jesus by faith; therefore, Torah was NEVER the destination as Jesus is the only Way, the only Truth, the only Path to LIFE available to humanity as Jesus is the fulfillment of all that Torah foreshadowed (John 14:6; Galatians 3:24). If one perishes in Torah, they perish in Hell in their sin; Jesus as one’s Messiah by faith is the divine Answer and the only acceptable Solution to mankind’s sin problem (Ephesians 4:7-10; Acts 4:12).

God’s will for your life? What pleases the Father, eternally?

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God’s will for your life? What pleases the Father, eternally?

If one desires to honor the will of Elohim our Father, they must first “believe in the One He has sent” into the World to provide humanity atonement for sin (John 6:29); then, receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); then, “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) thereby allowing the Spirit’s anointing to work through them producing divine “fruit” that actually honors the Father (John 15:8) and this “fruit” fulfills all law (Galatians 5:16-23); so then, if one is truly concerned about Commandments and Royal Law and obedience, the only Way to please the Father is to trust in Messiah Jesus, receive the Holy Spirit, walk daily in Christian sanctification thereby honoring the Father in word, thought, deed.

The New Covenant v. the Law Covenant,

The New Covenant is NOT about chasing obedience to letters, laws, days, diets, but about walking in the Spirit and producing fruit that endures the BEMA Judgment all of which is predicated upon first trusting-believing in Jesus as one’s Messiah who died for them (Galatians 2:16; Galatians 5:16-23; John 3; 15:8; 1 Corinthians 3:10-15).

Why does the Atheist hate God in Jesus?

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Why does the Atheist hate God in Jesus?

It is true that the religion of Atheism does NOT exist in reality but same is simply obfuscation for a virulent hatred toward and for our Creator who possesses divine dominion/sovereignty over our lives and our Eternity. Every human being having attained an age of reason possessing sufficient cognitive acuity to discern the supernatural World around them intuitively knows a supernatural, omnipotent, Creator exists and they are therefore “without excuse” when they deny this reality and ultimately perish in their sin and eventually stand in adjudication before Jesus our Messiah and Judge (Romans 1:20; John 8:24; Revelation 20:11-15).

What I find to be a most interesting inquiry is the foundation or causation for the Atheists’ hatred for our God, Creator, Elohim, Jesus?

Now, in this particular demonically laden debate forum labeled “DebateIsland,” we know that @Factfinder has tragically lost a loving spouse and it is most likely, by hearsay, that Factfinder was once an avid Christian who sought the Scriptures seeking an abundant life in Jesus but Factfinder, exercising his free will gift, when confronted with this tragedy chose to blame God and tragically/consequently Factfinder chose the the path of Judas Iscariot and has subsequently turned his back on God-Jesus, the Scriptures, the Truth, and opted to fight against God via an alliance with Satan which has turned Factfinder into a bitter, hateful, vulgar, arrogant, “atheist,” who seeks to proselytize for the Enemy of the human soul as opposed to holding fast to the faith in Jesus he once pursued.

Also, we know that one of the most prolific and hateful Atheists in this demonic forum, @Joeseph, was once a devout Catholic who came to the realization that his “religion” was actually a “religious cult” of self-righteousness and works and Joeseph subsequently threw “the baby out with the bath-water” and internalized a virulent hatred for Jesus and Christianity. Joeseph, apparently unable or disinterested in differentiating his Catholic cult from true Christianity, is so consumed with HATE for God that he is unable to discern divine Truth from the lies of his adopted father, Satan (John 8:44). 

So then, we understand where the hate for God finds its origin in @Factfinder and @Joeseph but my interests are far from satiated by these two-demonically laden fools (Isaiah 14:1); therefore, I ask you, the remaining Atheists who pollute this forum with your silliness and lack of wisdom and discernment and commonsense…what life-experience(s) has made you an Atheist and under girded your hatred for God and your disdain for those who love and serve Jesus through the indwelling Holy Spirit? Is your false “Atheism,” your chosen tactic of obfuscation, due an aberrant sexual addiction? Are you addicted physiologically to narcotics – alcohol? What is the “sin” or the aberrant obsession that under girds your hated for God to the extent that you are openly willing to denounce Jesus and die in Hell in an abject absence of logic, wisdom, commonsense; this, though you know better intuitively? 

Rick Holtsclaw

Why does the atheist insist the Biblical Text is immoral and aberrant?

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Why does the spiritually dead atheist (2 Corinthians 4:4) insist the Bible is immoral and aberrant in their childish efforts to obfuscate their sin and their destiny in Hell due their rejection of Jesus?

These iniquities highlighted in the Biblical Text are abundant due the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12) and the Scriptures highlight them thereby pointing us to our need for salvation (Galatians 3:24), redemption (John 3:16), by faith in Jesus (1 Peter 1:18-19)…if the atheist possessed even a modicum of wisdom and discernment and self-awareness, they would see the motives of our Creator in highlighting these sins that pollute our soul, our fallen World, and the atheist would seek redemption through Jesus as their Messiah (John 3) and receive the imputation/gifting of Jesus’ righteousness over their life (2 Corinthians 5:21) and consequently enter into New Covenant relationship with the Father (Matthew 26:28), be forgiven by New Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12) and walk daily in glorious sanctification through obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit gifted to all who trust in Jesus as Messiah/Lord/Savior (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16-23); unfortunately, the spiritually dead atheist “chooses” to live in spiritual ignorance and arrogance and self-righteousness all of which are fitting for the fires of Hell in rebellion to the Holy Spirit’s divine Truth (Revelation 20:11-15; John 17:17).

The Scriptures hide nothing yet atheists mock and ridicule the Holy Spirit’s work, why?

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The Scriptures hide nothing concerning the fallen nature of mankind and our Creator’s response to same yet the atheist mocks and ridicules the Holy Spirit’s work for our edification, why?

Simply stated,

If you desire a life of goodness, wholeness, peace and sustainability…trust in Jesus and believe the Gospel. If you desire a life of mediocrity and wastefulness, pursue the demonic tenets of atheism.

The Scriptures hide NOTHING from you concerning the fallen nature of the human genome (Romans 5:12) nor does God hide from you the demonic attributes of the spiritual war that has been translated into the Realm of Time (Genesis 3:15) as He deals with same via the Gospel of Jesus Christ ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10); in fact, the primary reason Jesus entered the Realm of Time was to “destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b).

You can accuse, cry, moan, wail, lie and die in Hell over obfuscating the reality of the Scriptures in a vain attempt to justify your sin and rejection of Jesus as Messiah; but the truth is, the Scriptures provide you the only Path to a life in Jesus that is wholesome, full of joy and meaning and an internal/eternal assurance that engenders peace and a quiet soul (Romans 5:1). The path of the atheist is hard and fraught with sorrow and hopelessness and wastefulness and ultimately, death in Hell.

I choose Jesus and desire a life that honors the indwelling Holy Spirit and thereby please my Heavenly Father via the Spirit’s divine work through me (John 15:8; Galatians 5:16-23). You’re free to choose a life of nihilism and wastefulness in atheism and secular humanism…good luck with that!

Why must a father train his children in the ways of our Lord Jesus?

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Why must a father methodically train his children to know and love Jesus, the Bible and live obediently to the indwelling Holy Spirit?

Not surprisingly, the demonically laden atheists in this forum have expressed vitriol and disdain over the subject of training children in the tenets of Christianity. For those who live a life based in reality, logic, reason, and pursue morality based in the Holy Bible and rely upon the Holy Spirit for their anointing to live daily honoring our Creator, Jesus Christ, these men who have assumed the most honorable role of husband, father, daddy, grandpa, know the necessity of training a child in the ways of sustainable morality while seeking to restrain and negate the Adamic sin-nature that infects the human genome at conception (Romans 5:12). Our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, hold the “father” or “daddy” of the family unit specifically responsible for teaching, training, equipping, protection, provisions, of the family divinely entrusted to him.

Children are to be taught the temporary and eternal benefits of morality in sexuality; the eternal importance of telling the truth; the honor of standing for God’s righteousness; the honor of defending the defenseless; the necessity of providing for the poor; the honorable character of interceding for the abused and neglected; all of which, are the resultant of knowing and loving Jesus as their Messiah, daily walking in obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Spirit produces divine fruit through them, fruit that brings honor and glory to our Heavenly Father (Galatians 5:15-23; John 15:8).

A father’s greatest fear, other than the untimely death of his children our beloved spouse, is that said father would fail in the divine mandate to love and honor and train his children to know and obey Jesus our Messiah by example and that his children would live an honorable and wholesome life as a servant of the Father, Son and Spirit. A father’s greatest fear should be that his child mature to become the victim of demonic evolution, the greatest progenitor of atheism known to mankind; a father’s greatest fear should be that his child become a useless, nihilistic, defiled, atheist-secular humanist void sanity, logic, reason, wisdom, a son or daughter bound for death in Hell in nihilism; essentially, a wasted, failed, impotent, life.

What is Islam’s relevance in these last days of grace?

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What is Islam’s relevance in these last days of grace?

HAMAS-Hezbollah-Houthis are IRAN – these are the fanatical proxies of Islamic Terrorism and they fight for Allah who is Satan masquerading as an angel of light via the Arabic moon god (2 Corinthians 11:14). Islam is the product of adultery between Abraham and Hagar who birthed the “wild donkey” of a man named Ishmael (Genesis 16) who is the father of the Ishmaelites who are the progenitors of a 7th-Century nomadic, demon possessed, murdering, pedophile, thief, named Muhammad who plagiarized the Jewish Torah to construct the Quran as Muhammad made every attempt to persuade the Jews in Medina to follow his new “religion” or the “way of the book.” When the Jews and Christians rejected Muhammad, he retaliated and the Islamic Caliphate was born; subsequently, millions upon millions of Jews, Christians, men, women, children, have been butchered by Islam via the edge of the sword until temporarily stopped in 1929.

Satan, incessantly seeking praise and worship due Elohim, our Creator God, became the god of Islam by fiat as Islam is the World’s largest religious cult of death and Hell providing Satan-Allah the praise and worship denied him in the Kingdom. IRAN SERVES SATAN!

The Kingdom War, initiated by Satan before Time began, is causation for our creation in Time and is currently played-out through Islam and their hatred for Elohim’s chosen people, the children of Jacob (Israel). This is why Israel is virulently hated by Islam/Iran and this why Israel’s extinction is the life-long goal of Islam; the incessant strife and wars between Islam and Israel, Israel’s allies, are nothing more than a carry-over of the Great Kingdom War manifesting itself in the Realm of Time via the demonic for the entire Earth to witness in conjunction with the faithful angelic creation that did not follow Satan in the rebellion. It is Islam that allies with Russia and China, the Axis of demonic evil, who will soon come against Jerusalem, Israel and this confrontation will initiate a limited nuclear war; this will initiate Messiah’s 2nd-Advent and the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus our Messiah. MARANATHA LORD!

Does God create evil? Why does evil exist?

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Does God create evil (Isaiah 45:7)?

Contrary to the King James Bible translator’s and other spurious translations based on the KJV, our Creator does not create evil as suggested in Isaiah 45:7 where the Hebrew “ra” is mistranslated but corrected by the translator’s of the New King James Bible. Evil is not something that is created but is simply a default to God’s holiness and righteousness; evil is manifest due sin or a rejection of our God’s will for our individual lives. God created everything “very good” and it is the spiritual father of the atheist/secular humanist who defiles the goodness of God via rebellion and debauchery which is celebrated by the children of Satan; namely, atheists-secular humanists.

Why does evil exist?

God does not command slavery – rape – infanticide…but the spiritual father of the atheist, Satan, does (John 8:44)…God allows the evil of Satan (John 8:44) to prevail in Time as Satan’s evil must be displayed to the faithful angelic creation and the redeemed in Jesus for eschatological purposes; namely, the Father is displaying to His faithful angelic creation why Satan was extricated from the Kingdom and why obedience to God’s authority is always superior to rebellion and defilement; this, for longevity of a sustainable existence with peace and joy and goodness and holiness that pleases the soul and makes existence meaningful and wholesome. 

The previous 6000-years of horror that have transpired within the Realm of Time at the hands and will of Satan working through Time and physics and displayed by the atheist-secular humanist, the acts of unconscionable horror will act as an eternal bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where free will exists by necessity. Our entire creation in Time hinges upon a war initiated by the rebellious father of the atheist, Satan, and Elohim’s methodical restoration of holiness to His Kingdom via selfless love demonstrated at Golgotha by Jesus and the demonstration of why evil must be shunned and obedience to God’s authority obeyed in order that life in Time and in Eternity be enjoyed with intimacy and love and peace that endures throughout the ages and everlasting Eternity.

Every atheist in this forum and around this fallen World are shining examples of why obedience to the authority of our Creator is essential…atheists are examples of why sin, defilement, perversion, infanticide, aberrant sexual debauchery, destroys mind, body, soul, and why these things are unsustainable in life constrained by Time and unsustainable in the Kingdom as the atheist and their perverse ilk are destructive and deadly to mind, body, soul. Atheists are the destroyers of goodness, holiness, peace, meaningfulness, HOPE. Atheists are the vile in thought, word, deed. Atheists are the disgusting in a society that brings sorrow and shame upon any people and any Nation. Atheists are the progenitors of the evil they suggest God creates and in the Day of Judgment, the righteous of God in Jesus will glory in the destruction and shame of the atheist along with the father of atheism, Satan (Revelation 20:10-15; 1 Corinthians 15:24; Philippians 3:19; Revelation 11:18). MARANATHA LORD! Jesus is victorious (Revelation 5:5).

Why was Judaism given Israel’s Children?

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Why was Judaism given Israel’s Children?

Judaism was given Israel for eschatological purposes, the Law, sanctification from paganism, the blood sacrifices, as Israel’s children were to be the progenitors of Messiah through Judah and take custody of the New Covenant’s Gospel and Great Commission in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3b; unfortunately, Israel rejected the Gospel, murdered their Messiah upon a tree via Pilate/Rome, Israel’s children demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children…so it was and it is…the New Covenant was taken from Israel and given to the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of God (Romans 11:25).

Judaism was a roadmap to the New Covenant as prophesied by Jeremiah in chapter 31 and Ezekiel in chapter 36 and Israel was foreordained to be the custodians of the New Covenant but Israel’s covenants with Elohim were overwhelmingly predicated upon National obedience (Deuteronomy 28) and Israel failed. I’ve not changed Judaism and its eschatological purposes in my defense of the New Covenant…Elohim provided Israel with Sinai’s Commandments and the 603 Mosaic Laws to thwart a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their compromise with paganism but Judaism was NEVER intended to be the path to righteousness with Elohim and passage to the Kingdom of Elohim, the New Covenant was foreordained to be the Right of Passage via Messiah via faith and the New Covenant’s Gospel was ordained as the battle strategy to defeat Satan “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). Judaism was simply a covenant precursor, a foundation, for the realization and strategic implementation of the New Covenant established in Messiah Jesus’ blood at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28).

Are only Christians “good?”

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“So, one is “good” so long as Jesus is in them; otherwise, they are bad?” So then, only Christians are good?

Christian response,

The “goodness” or righteousness of Jesus is gifted-imputed by New Covenant promise over the life of the one who believes that Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). Man is sinful by nature (Romans 5:12) and can therefore NEVER attain self-righteousness sufficient to please the Father (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 4:1-8), but the Father has made a way for mankind to receive divine righteousness that is gifted-imputed-promised through faith in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21).

What did Jesus do for you and me in the New Covenant?

Jesus took our sin upon Himself and paid the required price for that sin which is “blood atonement” as per Leviticus 17:11 (1 Peter 1:18-19; Genesis 3:21); the animal blood sacrifices performed in the Old Covenant foreshadowed the blood sacrifice of Messiah Jesus upon a Roman Cross (Matthew 26:28) yet the blood of animals could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:4); only the precious blood of Jesus makes acceptable atonement for sin (1 Peter 1:18-19). In the Old Covenant blood sacrifices, it was NOT the blood of the animal that resulted in righteousness (a right standing) with the Father but it was the “faith” of the one offering the sacrifice that engendered Covenant-righteousness (Hebrews 11); faith being a “sincere trust” that Elohim would do exactly as He has promised. It is the sinless blood of Jesus that provides a divine Path to life in Eternity (John 14:6; John 3:16; Matthew 26:28).

Righteousness in the New Covenant,

In the New Covenant, as established in the blood of Jesus (Matthew 26:28), the Father agrees to forgive and forget the sins of the one who trusts in Jesus as their payment (propitiation) for sin (Hebrews 8:12) and the Father then endows the one forgiven of sin with the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Ezekiel 36:27) and it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who begins a new work or a work of righteousness in the “new man” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and daily, the Holy Spirit begins to produce divine “fruit” through the faithful in Jesus (Galatians 5:16-23). It is this divine “fruit” that fulfills all Law and that same “fruit” honors the Father (John 15:8) as the Spirit incrementally transforms the redeemed into the obedient image of Jesus; this divine transformation is a life-long pursuit as the Spirit prepares the redeemed for service in the coming New Jerusalem where those who have loved and trusted in Jesus will serve Him in resurrected bodes, eternally (Philippians 3:21; Revelation 21-22).

“Goodness” concerning humanity?

There is nothing intrinsically “good” in humanity (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12); this, due the Adamic sin-nature but godly “goodness” comes through faith in Jesus and that goodness is gifted by Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); the Christian is a sinner by nature (Romans 5:12) and is redeemed by faith in Jesus and consequently they become a New Creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and though they are not “perfect” in reality, they are NOT what they used to be as servants of Satan and they are now walking in the path of studious obedience (Philippians 2:12; 2 Timothy 2:15) seeking to honor the Father and Jesus and the Spirit who has provided them a new life and eternal Hope (Galatians 5:16).

Christians are NOT perfect, yet…

Christians still struggle with the sin-nature that is integral with the flesh (Romans 5:12; Romans 7:14-25) but the Christian, unlike the lost in Satan, are divinely anointed and empowered and guaranteed life by the indwelling Holy Spirit and consequently have peace with the Father (Romans 5:1) and the Christian walks in victory as Jesus is victorious over the Devil and the Devil’s works which are Death-Hell-the Grave (Revelation 5:5). Christians become divinely perfect the moment they shed this body of fleshly, decaying, death and enter into the presence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:8).