Yes, Swamy I, I can see that your question is asked in good faith.
I consider myself of Christian background, and I have looked into this matters of animal sacrifice in the Old Testament and it's connection with the sacrificial lamb of God, Jesus.
In the Old Testament, it seems to me that there was a crossover point when the people of that time were giving up their old gods and instead turning to the one God.
It seems that many of the old traditions such as blood sacrifice still continued on during this period as it was a long held Jewish tradition. A lamb continued to be sacrificed at Passover to remember that it was a sacrificing of a lamb that was the key to the Israelites escaping slavery in Egypt.
This then went on to be applied to Jesus as a sacrifice on the cross. A lamb to the slaughter, the lamb of God. Just a continuing of the same sort of thought process. The sacrifice of the lamb of God, in order that we would no longer be slaves to sin. Our sins would be wiped clean by this sacrifice.
It was Paul, who wrote a large proportion of the New Testament, including the passage I have referred to. It was him who came to the conclusion that Jesus had died to take away the sins of the world. He did not know Jesus in his lifetime, but became converted after a vision appeared to him on the road to Damascus.
He wrote much in the spreading of Jesus's ministry, but they were his own words and not the words of Jesus. So it is for us to decide how much validity we place upon them. His idea that Jesus was the sacrificial lamb of God still stays with us to this day.
That's the best I can do, Swami. It's not very clear, I'm afraid. But then, the Bible itself is not very clear, with the usage of different names for God, and it being unclear whether the reference is to one of the old gods or the one God and who the sacrifices were being made to.
Namaste
Sunny Girl
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-Anonymous
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