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We, as humans, can forgive one another without shedding our blood as a sacrifice for the sins of others to bring about forgiveness.
But we should understand that God' s holiness and righteousness far exceeds our own and the offense of even one sin is so great God that it involves the sinner being separated from God eternally unless atonement is made through the blood of His Son.
The blood of Jesus removes the infinite offense to God of even one sin, let alone the sins of the whole world for all time. We cannot compare God's requirements for forgiveness to man's.
We are sinners, God is pure and sinless. We have no sense of what His perfection is like. However, we are told that the plan of salvation was made even before anything was created. So, God's counsel is beyond us to know completely. But Scripture tells just that blood must be shed for sins to be forgiven and that the animal sacrifices of the OT are shadows pointing to the sacrifice of Jesus which is of infinite value compared to that of animals or of sinful mankind.
How precious is this sacrifice of Jesus, the shedding of His blood and the dying of His perfect body on the cross. His sacrifice has made a way for mankind to be reconciled back to God, turning away God's wrath from us and restoring us to God in Jesus' righteousness.
This is the way God has deemed as the only best way for our sins to be forgiven, not by sacrifices we make or offerings, or prayers or religious practices on our part, but only through the shed blood of Jesus unto His death for us.
I believe Jesus is our greatest advocate for a life of peace and contentment. I feel the love of God and Jesus and the love of myself the most when I repent and improve my life. I am glad that Jesus and John the Baptist spoke about repentance when they first started teaching. I love repentance and true improvement and preparation for meeting God after this life.
Throughout the Old Testament and of the shadows of the Son of Man you will see that God had always ordained a plan of redemption to be made for mankind after the fall. This is why God would provide a lamb to be slain in Genesis when Abraham offered his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Or how Judah wanted to intercede for Benjamin's captivity in Egypt or even how Moses wanted to die for the children of Israel when they committed the grave sin of worshiping another god despite their recent commitment. God did not want man to suffer for another man, instead he sent his own begotten Son to intercede for us,
through the punishment and fulfillment of the cross and the judgment of sin, where he became sin for us. Now that it is done, God has completed His plan of salvation for us and all we have to do is believe; and this is his grace and the new covenant which is his body and his blood.
God had already shown Adam and Eve that when they were in their fallen state and were without the Spirit of God (for He had left the moment they sinned to eat the fruit), He clothed them when they were naked and provided for them. He had to kill animals and taught them and their generations that there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood. For it is written in Leviticus 17:11; "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."
Now there is one whose life and blood is more precious than that of bulls and goats; which is he who is life itself: Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice that was made, is made once and lasts forever, and there shall be no more need or time when a new sacrifice needs to be made. Jesus had come in the flesh to tell us these things, to tell us the truth about him because he and the Father are one and he came to show us the Father himself. "Jesus answered: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6
We, as humans, can forgive one another without shedding our blood as a sacrifice for the sins of others to bring about forgiveness.
But we should understand that God' s holiness and righteousness far exceeds our own and the offense of even one sin is so great God that it involves the sinner being separated from God eternally unless atonement is made through the blood of His Son.
The blood of Jesus removes the infinite offense to God of even one sin, let alone the sins of the whole world for all time. We cannot compare God's requirements for forgiveness to man's.
We are sinners, God is pure and sinless. We have no sense of what His perfection is like. However, we are told that the plan of salvation was made even before anything was created. So, God's counsel is beyond us to know completely. But Scripture tells just that blood must be shed for sins to be forgiven and that the animal sacrifices of the OT are shadows pointing to the sacrifice of Jesus which is of infinite value compared to that of animals or of sinful mankind.
How precious is this sacrifice of Jesus, the shedding of His blood and the dying of His perfect body on the cross. His sacrifice has made a way for mankind to be reconciled back to God, turning away God's wrath from us and restoring us to God in Jesus' righteousness.
This is the way God has deemed as the only best way for our sins to be forgiven, not by sacrifices we make or offerings, or prayers or religious practices on our part, but only through the shed blood of Jesus unto His death for us.
through the punishment and fulfillment of the cross and the judgment of sin, where he became sin for us. Now that it is done, God has completed His plan of salvation for us and all we have to do is believe; and this is his grace and the new covenant which is his body and his blood.
God had already shown Adam and Eve that when they were in their fallen state and were without the Spirit of God (for He had left the moment they sinned to eat the fruit), He clothed them when they were naked and provided for them. He had to kill animals and taught them and their generations that there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood. For it is written in Leviticus 17:11; "For the life of the flesh is in the blood."
Now there is one whose life and blood is more precious than that of bulls and goats; which is he who is life itself: Jesus Christ, and the sacrifice that was made, is made once and lasts forever, and there shall be no more need or time when a new sacrifice needs to be made. Jesus had come in the flesh to tell us these things, to tell us the truth about him because he and the Father are one and he came to show us the Father himself. "Jesus answered: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6
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