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Some people have complained,
"Christianity has too much blood in it”, why is that? “Without the
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness” (Hebrew, 9:22). Why is blood
such an important symbol in the Holy Bible?
It may not seem a very pleasant image at
first, but the blood of Christ can speak eloquently to us.
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Christ's blood is a symbol of life.
"For the life of a creature is in the blood. It is the blood that makes
atonement for one's life” (Leviticus.17:11). In some respects Christ's
life was more important than His death. If it weren't for His sinless
life, the cross would serve no purpose. And had He not lived after He
died, His death couldn't save us. As the Apostle Paul said, "If Christ
has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith"
(1st. Corinthians 15;14). When Jesus spilled His most precious blood
from the cross, He was pouring out His life for humanity; He was
offering up His perfectly obedient life as a substitute for our
failures.
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Christ's blood is a symbol of His
death. When Jesus shed His
blood on the cross, He was paying "the wages of sin"- death, eternal
death. He experienced the agony of complete separation from God the
Father. God the Son stepped into history to take on Himself the full
results of sin and to demonstrate how tragic wrong doing really is. He
could then forgive sinners without trivializing sin.
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Christ's blood is a symbol of the
suffering heart of God. The
cross reveals how much pain sin has brought to God. The Holy Bible says,
"The wages of sin is death." (Romans.6;23). He is not blood thirsty
deity demanding a sacrifice- He Himself was the sacrifice. When the
Father and the Son were torn apart at
Calvary,
the Father turned away in anguish and the Son died of a broken heart.
Christ's blood represents the whole drama of the atonement, that amazing
act which enabled God "to reconcile to Himself all things, whether
things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood,
shed on the cross." (Colossians.1;20).
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Christ's blood in the cross is a
forgiveness of sin. "When
you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful
nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
having cancelled the written code, with its regulations, that was
against us and that stood opposed to us; He took it away, nailing it to
the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a
public spectacle of them, trumphing over them by the cross."
(Colossians.2;13-15).
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