I think that is what he's asking. I think you'll agree with me, but, just to be clear, that the Law requires shedding of blood is not a reason why God requires the shedding of blood, because God made the Law, so you might as well ask why God required the Law to require the shedding of blood.
That is what I was asking in that thread from 2022 that I linked here.
I haven't finished reading the responses to that thread because up to page 3 no one realy answered my question to my satisfaction.
The wages of sin is death Romans 6:23, not just a physical death because we all die. The reason Christ died was not to keep us from a physical, it has to have more meaning than that. I'm still not sure why the shedding of blood was required to atone for our sins except perhaps Jesus took our debt of sin upon himself and to bring about an acceptable atonement.
My question was and still is "why the shedding of blood for the atonement of sin?" Why did God choose that method to reconcile us to himself when we became his enemies by sinning? The punishment for sin is death seems severe. Maybe it has to do with God's holiness.
I'll have to go back and read the rest of the thread to see if someone has an answer and pray about it.
I know what would happen to me if I required the shedding of blood (even a little) before I forgave anyone of anything. It just makes no sense for God to require it. Every single time I have forgiven someone, I didn't require a blood sacrifice, nor the shedding of any blood. I just did it as a kind of gift to the person, to get things back on track. So what consideration makes it such that God would choose the shedding of blood in order to forgive everyone? Surely God could just forgive everyone far more easily than I forgive people.
Hebrews 9-10 gives an explanation from a Jewish perspective. We put ourselves at a distance from God when we sin and need reconciliation.
Heb 9:23 Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year after year with blood that is not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
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1John 1: This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
It makes no sense, whereas if you consider the blood sacrifice to merely have come out of that tribe's existing cultural practices, it is explained quite easily.
This would not be the correct way to think about this question because the NT writers, who were mostly Jewish, included the words of Jesus and their own interpretations in their writings which hold that Christ shed his blood for us as an atonement for our sins.
