are you saying that the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross wasn't necessary for our salvation?
His Blood is His Life, His Truth, His Way, His doctrine, His Gospel, His Words. These are necessary for salvation. It has nothing to do with carnal red blood, as the carnal mind perceives it to be.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
-Or do you think that the high priests, the romans, or Judas got theirs sins attoned for because they blood sacrificed a Perfect Lamb? -No, they got their condemnation increased. Because no blood offering, of beast or bird, or man, can take away sin, for
how can the conscience be purged from sin by the shedding of innocent blood? Nay, it will increase the condemnation.
-The priests indeed receive such offering as reconciliation of the worshippers for the trespasses against the law of Moses, but for sins against the Law of God there can be no remission,
save by repentance and amendment.
Also take a look at
Hebrews 9: 18-22. The shedding of blood.
Choose whom will ye serve. Remember, when Jesus heals people, He does it based on faith, not based on blood sacrifice, how many times did Jesus declare "Thy sins are forgiven thee"? And in none of those cases was there any blood sacrifice required. Only faith was required, blood sacrifices cannot attone for sin, they are a sin in of themselves, an abomination unto the LORD.
Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth
the Lord hate: yea, seven are an
abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and
hands that shed innocent blood,
-Even tho the witness of Jesus is enough to refute that idea, these are the verses that prove, from the old testament, that you don't need to shed innocent blood at all, in order to be forgiven. Not before Christ, not during Moses, not during David, not ever. Even since the beginning, you only needed repentance and ammendment, unto this very day: repent and believe in Jesus.
Ezekiel 18:21 But
if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and
keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live,
he shall not die.
27 Again,
when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right,
he shall save his soul alive.
Ezekiel 33:19 But
if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right,
he shall live thereby.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and
let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
Job 36:10 He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they
return from iniquity.
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If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and
I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers,
I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
Jeremiah 7:5 For
if ye throughly
amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and
shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
Jeremiah 7:22 For
I spake not unto your fathers,
nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning
burnt offerings or sacrifices:
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying,
Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold,
to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
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David is a great example, he was forgiven without any blood sacrifice. He confessed.
2 Samuel 12:13 And David said unto Nathan,
I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David,
The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.”
Psalm 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin.
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For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
16 For
thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 32:5 I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said,
I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
-So, as you can see, David was forgiven without any blood sacrifice. He confessed and was forgiven.
