re: Are we are headed fast towards the tribulations

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To stand in as the ultimate sacrifice. My question is why are sacrifices needed for forgiveness. I know the Bible said that God finds burning flesh to be a pleasing scent, but it's gotta be deeper than that, right?

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Blood has magical properties of purification. It took goat blood on the day of atonement to renew creation by sprinkling it throughout the temple. The other goat was pushed off a cliff to carry away the sins of Israel to Azazel… an evil divine spirit. The sins of Israel corrupted creation (including heaven and earth) each year, and the Yom Kippur sacrifices of the goats was a way to renew creation and keep the capstone of the temple plugging up the Tehom “the great deep” so the waters wouldn’t flood the earth again.

It was time to usher in the judgement of the living and the dead and order to renew creation once and for all forever. Besides, the Zadokite priests were screwing up the dates and they weren’t even performing the atonement rituals correctly or on the correct date due to the Babylonian Lunar calendar they adopted. Yahweh is very peculiar. Sacrifices have to be bloody, and festivals and rituals have to be performed on the correct dates. Only the Enochian Jews knew the correct dates because they preserved the solar calendar of the first temple period.

Quit asking questions. Yahweh demands blood. It is what it is.

ETA: they got a lot more converts after the temple was destroyed and the yearly atonement ritual could no longer be performed because the temple no longer existed. In my opinion, they thought “Our great angel LORD Yahweh can’t be that weak and sucky, so maybe Jesus really did offer the ultimate atonement making the temple no longer necessary. “

ETA2: Also consider that Yahweh historically was a dying and rising god. Paul and early Christians believed that Jesus is/was Yahweh, who used to be called Ba’al. There was a period in the first temple period where Yahweh and Ba’al names were interchangeable and it is recorded in the Bible. We can learn more about it using the Ugaritic manuscripts which were written in Cuneiform and deciphered. The Ugaritic manuscripts detailed the Ba’al cycle, which was the yearly killing of Ba’al by his brother Mot to end the rainy season and then El Elyon (the god most high, same exact name used in Deuteronomy 32:8-9) resurrects Ba’al to bring back the rain. Ba’al is also said to have defeated the water dragon Leviathan, the same one Yahweh is said to have slain in the Bible. Weird thing though is that Ba’al dies in this battle and is resurrected. Yahweh never dies…

The weird thing is that in some of the Psalms and in 2 Samuel and Kings it says “the LORD lives!” Well of course he lives, that’s understood and redundant. Not if he had died and was resurrected though.

In Canaanite mythology, Ba’al, later called Yahweh by the Israelites, kills the water dragon (sometimes called Leviathan and Rahab) in our bibles. He split the water dragon into two pieces. One piece he used to make the land. The other piece he used to make the firmament… to separate the (upper) waters from the (lower) waters in Genesis chapter 1. So Jesus who is literally Yahweh has been dying and rising for thousands of years so it made sense that he’d do it one last time for the Enochian Jews which led to them becoming known as Christians.

Behold the world of the Poli-Talk board.. All the nutty Q threads and religious threads you could ever care to read.

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Maybe you’d prefer some made up thread about a husband who finds his grandpa sexting his wife?

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It was a little funny.

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Ah, it’s time for another wacko religion thread.

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lol

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Whats the general reason Christians believe God incarnated and sacrificed himself? Christ’s death pays the penalty for all sin ( original sin) for those who repent and put their faith in Him as the one who paid the penalty for their sin.

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Yes, this is the basis of Christianity.

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If so why would a god need to blood sacrifice himself in order to forgive sin?

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The shortest, simplest answer that I can offer is twofold. One- because He is a just God. Question: Does it anger you; does it seem just, that a crime be committed- and there be no punishment? No restitution? We live in a time where it is painfully obvious what happens when crimes go unpunished. Is that a world that you want to live in? In perpetuity? Is such a world sustainable?

Two- because He is a loving God. He knew, before He created us, that we would be incapable of living a sinless life- and He paid our debt. Question: can free will exist without the freedom to choose? No, it cannot. Can a series of experiences educate you and affect your behavior to the point that you freely choose rightly? I believe so. It is revealed daily, in a microcosm of the scale with which God will effect permanent change for those who choose to accept the Father’s gift of love.

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Human sacrifice is really weird and barbaric

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Please tell that to planed parenthood.

Moloch demands his sacrifices. Million’s of them every year.

Sorry I didn’t read the read of your post. It’s obvious for you and not me.

The mere fact you had to ask why demonstrates why you're a fool.