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What can wash away my sins?
The notion of God is as old as humanity and when you have a God, as world history tells us, he needs to be appeased and pacified by constant ritual sacrifice. The greater the sacrifice the greater the good fortune you will have because God is happy with your efforts.
Without the idea that God demands sacrifice there would be no reason for Christianity to exist. Even the act of circumcision carried out on innocent babies, was created as a substitution to child sacrifice whereby the child’s life was redeemed and saved from becoming the actual blood offering. (Exodus 4:24)
When Christians get all emotionally choked up and teary eyed by texts such as John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave, his son as an offering for us” they would do well to consider the history from the Old Testament of the Hebrew God’s (Yahweh) lust for human and animal bloodletting, as the real basis for Jesus sacrificial atonement. However odd this penchant might be today it is consistent with all primitive conceptions of “God” and it is embedded in the Christian gospel.
As this snippet from a famous Christian Gospel Song testifies:
What can wash away my sins?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
Oh, the blood of Jesus!
Oh, the blood of Jesus!
Oh, the blood of Jesus!
It washes white as snow.
The fact that the crucifixion must be continually meditated upon and preached proves this whole theological story never happened and is condemned by its own core theology as a hypocritical lie. When considering the continuing value of the Bible, it is best summed up a by Jesus himself: “It is finished!”
Yet Paul carries on from where Jesus said it is finished with this shocker "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4: 12.
The Bible tells us we are all sinners in that we are convicted before God twice: By Original Sin and by failure to keep the Law. To keep our souls out of an eternal fiery Hell, we need to be “washed in the blood of the Lamb”, that is the blood of Jesus.
The blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ to the Father is the central act of Christianity. God is appeased, his desire for blood sated and all falling under the umbrella of Christ are redeemed, saved and secure from the wrath of God.
If Christ is not “in you” Apostle Paul explains “then you are reprobate” later on he says “Christ in you the hope of glory”.
Strangely Christians are not embarrassed to be associated with a God that demands blood sacrifice, because Paul’s teachings have tamed the beast, as it were, and the only bloodletting done today is at the ritualistic communion or breaking of bread service; where the sacrifice of the last human (man/god) offering is remembered emotionally with much humility, gratitude and admiration. The body and blood of Jesus are still intriguing Christians, when; after two thousand years one would think they would have gotten over it.
As we unpack this further we realise that God prepared a human body (Christ) for a final and complete blood offering. And just like child and animal offerings in the OT, it had to be without spot and blemish. So this human sacrifice could not be human because scripture tell us “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God”. He who knew no sin became our substitute. There is no one as perfect or pure as God. So it makes sense then that God would be the ultimate sacrifice. And so God had to sacrifice himself to himself. Paul tells us that God was in Christ reconciling humanity to God.
In Hebrews 9:22 we read “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins” and because Gods blood was shed on Calvary, Jesus Christ being the ultimate and perfect sacrifice has made all primitive religions obsolete and saved the world from all kinds of blood sacrifice.
At the cross, the Son of God died for us and that should have been the end of him, but he did not really die and he rose again three days later and continues to haunt people all over the world. He demands that all enter into a blood covenant with him; otherwise they are not redeemed and still need to be saved.
Do you get it now? The Christian God is still a primitive depiction of a god, but he comes in a more sanitised updated version. Where is Jesus now? Don’t feel sorry for him, he is now sitting in Heaven on the Great White Judgment Seat Throne beside his Father (Hebrew God Yahweh). Not bad return for a mere three days of suffering.
Millions have suffered horrendously for more than three whole days, and when they die according to true Christians they will be thrown into the great lake of hell fire, right next door to Mother Teresa and Ghandi.
Well one good thing Christianity brought mankind is that after the final and “finished: sacrifice of Jesus, there has been a huge increase in the bulls, goat and sheep population.
