Sacrifice
Sacrifice
By Marvin Moore
 

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Blood! The sight of it churns the stomach and spins the head—even among the burliest of individuals. Little wonder, then that God chose bloody sacrifices to teach His ancient people important lessons about life. But just what did religion mean to Joshua, Samson, and Eli? Did Gideon go to church? And if he did, what was it like?  What did the animal sacrifices mean? Sacrifice explains mankind’s universal sense of guilt. From the point of view of Christianity: “Sin causes death. Not some theological death in a dusty doctrinal textbook somewhere but a real flesh-and-blood death that hurts. The Hebrew saw a real animal die by his own hand. Each of us needs to realize that ‘My sin caused Jesus to die on the cross.’”