easternstar
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would you sacrifice an animal every year to atone for your sins? I would expect all PSA advocates to answer in the affirmative.
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If we were still under the law...
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David Lamb
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Why would you expect that? Believers in penal substitutionary atonement don't believe that the sacrifice of animals actually atoned for them. They believe what is written in Hebrews:
“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.” (Heb 10:4 NKJV)
easternstar
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Because the concept is the same -- punishung and killing an innocent victim in the place of the guilty so that the guilty can go free.
David Lamb
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Yes, but the point is that the blood of the sacrificed animal did not actually take away sins, as the Hebrews verse I quoted makes clear.
easternstar
Active Member
So, what was its purpose then? It supposedly covered sins for a year.
My point is this, especially for those who believe in the concept behind PSA: If you were still under the law, would you sacrifice an animal every year, to atone for your sins? If not, why not? The concepts behind PSA and animal sacrifices under the law are the same, as I stated: punishing and killing an innocent victim in the place of the guilty so that the guilty can go free.
David Lamb
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Their purpose was to point forward to the one perfect sacrifice that actually takes away sins, that of the Lord Jesus Christ. As for your question as to whether, if I were still under the law, I would continue to sacrifice animals, it is not possible for me to put myself i such a hypothetical situation. I hope I would see the sacrifices of animals as intended and look towards the saviour Whose death actually takes away sins. Praise God, that Saviour has come, and has born my sins in His own body on the tree.