Was the Death of ‘J. C.’ A
Valid Sacrificial Offering?
Monday Night 02-25-2002
Section 7:
The N.T. says the death of J.C. takes care of ALL sins.
Hebrews 10:10
(10) By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus Christ once for all.
Once more the law of sacrifice in Leviticus unequivocally says that the sacrificial sin offering could only atone for unintentional sins, other than the few exceptions as stated in Lev. 5:1-6, 20-26, also see: Num. 15:27-31.
Numbers 15:27-31
(27) And if any soul sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a female
goat of the first year for a sin offering.
(28) And the priest shall make atonement for the soul who sins ignorantly, when he sins by ignorance before YHWH, to make atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him.
(29) You shall have one Law for him who sins through ignorance, both for him who is born among the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.
(30) But the soul who does anything presumptuously, whether he is born in the land, or a stranger, that person dishonors YHWH; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
(31) Because he has despised the word of YHWH, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Section 8:
The N. T. also makes the claim that the death of J. C. even atones for sins not yet committed, even for sins of those who are yet to be born.
Hebrews 10:18
(18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Tanakh teaches that sacrifices can only atone for sins committed previous to the offering of the sacrifice.
No sacrifice could ever atone for sins committed after the sacrifice was offered. Therefore, we could not sacrifice now to make atonement for those to be born in the future.
Moreover, Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is ordained in the Torah as an annual holiday (Lev 16:29-34).
If we could have sacrificed for those yet to be born, would we not have had only to keep one Yom Kippur that would have covered all our following generations? Obviously, we find no support for such a scenario in Tanakh.
Even if J.C. had been born and died as an ‘all covering, all times sacrifice’
that atoned for all sins of all mankind, then his death could only atone for
the sins committed before his death. It could not have applied to any sins
committed after his death and still remain true to Torah.