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Animal Sacrifices: Our Visitors' Comments
By Frank and Mary Hoffman - 20 Feb 2013

Dear Leisa:
 
We're sorry about the misunderstanding.
 
We need to remember that the entire sacrificial system comes from pagan lands, where they believed that they must offer blood sacrifices to appease God, or their gods.
 
God Himself says that He wants obedience and not sacrifice, and all of these sacrificial descriptions are being given to an ungodly world that is not being obedient to God, so at best these are reluctant concessions by God to limit the depravity of human beings. It is also very interesting to note that all of these Leviticus instruction only became part of the Bible in the 400+ BCE writings of Ezra and the other priestly writers.
 
You might want to take a look at:
http://www.all-creatures.org/blog/bible/forgiveness-without-sacrifice/
http://www.all-creatures.org/discuss/ansac.html
http://www.all-creatures.org/discuss/whendidthe.html
http://www.all-creatures.org/discuss/heb10.1-18.html
 
We hope this helps.

In the Love of the Lord,

Frank and Mary