Detailed explanation of sacrifice

To offer sacrifices; to offer sacrifices.

"Book of Han·Biography of Wang Mang": "In February of the fifth year, Empress Dowager Wenmu died...a temple was built in Chang'an, and new houses were dedicated to sacrifices from generation to generation." Song Xu Tianlin's "The Meeting of the Western Han Dynasty·Liu Liu" ·Ancestral Temple": "In the fourth year of Emperor Ping's first year, he respected Xiaoxuan Temple as the Zhongzong, and the emperor offered sacrifices to him from generation to generation." Nalan Xing Island's "Lullaby on the Huma River" 2: "Autumn is coming, and grandma went to the big forest of Yunqueling "Go and sacrifice."

The Jewish "sacrifice" of killing cattle and sheep is usually designed to atone for human sins.

There is no such thing as slaughtering sheep and offering sacrifices in Christianity. That was the ritual of sacrifices made by the Israelites before Christ came to the world.

And in that era (from a biblical perspective, that is, the Old Testament era), sacrifices not only used sheep, but also used oxen, doves, turtle doves, etc.

Sheep are indeed the kindest animals. When the sheep are slaughtered, it is exactly as you described. Did you know that Jesus is called the Lamb of God? Isaiah, a prophet in the Old Testament, predicted when Jesus was tortured:

“He was oppressed, but he opened not his mouth while he was suffering. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep being sheared. He is silent, and he is silent."

The slaughter of a sheep arouses people's sympathy, how much more so for Jesus, the holy and blameless Son of God who was reincarnated into a human being? Isn’t it more worthy of people’s respect? If it is cruel to kill a sheep as a sacrifice, wouldn’t it be even crueler to crucify Jesus? Why did God allow such cruel things to happen? This is Christian salvation.

It turns out that Jesus is like a sheep, offering himself on the altar to atone for the sins of the world. The purpose of human sacrifice is to forgive sins, but the value of sheep is much lower than that of humans. Therefore, every time a person commits a sin, he must kill a sheep to atone for his sin. But Jesus is the only begotten Son of God, and his value is countless times higher than that of a human being, let alone a sheep. Therefore, Jesus only had to die once to atone for all the sins of everyone in the world. We no longer need to kill sheep for sacrifice. We only need to accept the fact that "Jesus was crucified on the cross for my sins" and our sins can be forgiven. So we often say, believe in Jesus and accept Jesus as your personal savior. This is what we mean. I hope you will take this step and solve your sinful, eternal problem.

The essence of sacrifice is to express feelings of loyalty, gratitude, repentance and trust to God by sacrificing some or all of one's own interests. The more things you can give up, the greater your confidence is. If you just talk about it, anyone can do it, but the difficulty lies in actually giving up what you have gained. In the Old Testament era, Christians offered items, which I personally think was a bribe. In the New Testament era, Christians were asked to dedicate their entire life, life, and everything they had to God, which was called "a living sacrifice." This is the highest level. realm.