Philo Sofee wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 11:39 pmLeon Morris noted the many views and scriptures interpreted which have interpreted animal sacrifice as the blood meaning “the life” which is supposedly the emphasis. After careful examination he concludes, properly so, that this is just incorrect, interesting though that is. Sacrifice is not about “offering up life,” it is not about “the bestowal of life,” it is in the whole offering, rather than just a blood offering that is involved. It is “dam [blood] in the Old Testament indicates that it signifies life violently taken rather than the continued presence of life available...in short, death rather than life.”[2]
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Blood is the life or life is in the blood in much the same sense as air is the life or life is in the air that we breathe. Without blood and air we cannot live.
Soooo, if you cut yourself in the wrist and laydown and do nothing, you will slowly die until your mind fades and your heart stops beating. That is death because without the blood the body pump (heart) cannot function and sustain life.
Soooo, by slitting the throat of the sacrificial animal and letting it bleed to death in a ritualic spiritual search for a higher meaning in God will cause the animal to die. The slitter can witness the death and present that death to the benefactor who is supposed to receive forgiveness and spiritual life in God. It was Jehovah who said he gives life and takes it away. The animal life is given to the benefactor in exchange for faith and a pledge. Thus, the lifeforce that is in animal blood ritualistically and spiritually is given to sustain a spiritual life in God.
You know what they say, sacrifice brings forth blessings and they thought that sacrificing animals would give them the blessings they needed in order to please their God and live their religion. Hence, man not only depended on animals for food and temporal survival but their blood for spiritual benefit and forgiveness from God.