@Tcmc: Jesus had to give his blood because that is the ultimate
scarifice. When Adam and Eve sinned, they were cursed to die to pay
for their sins. They would be eternally seperated from God. And
this would absolutely be the case unless their sins are attoned
for.
Before Christ came, the blood of animals were used as a
temporary payment. However, even if the blood of men was used it
cannot be satisfactory enough in the eyes of God. However, the
blood of Christ could pay for our sins because He is God incarnate.
Christ is fully man but at the same time fully God. God knew we
could never pay the price of our sins and yet because He is right
and just, there is no way He could go against His words regarding
Adam and Eve's sin. We all have to die an eternal death and be
seperated from Him. That is why propelled by love God humbled
Himself and took on the form of a being He created, to suffer
humiliations and rejections by the very creatures He created, to
suffer abuse by the very creatures He left the glory of heaven to
save. Nothing else is more precious than the blood of the Son of
God and hence only His blood can wash us clean from all sins, and
not vegetables or anything else.
Blood scarifice is also prevalent in so many other cultures and
religions because the ancients knew it is something very special,
very precious as well. Although they were wrong because the blood
of mere men and animals can never attone for our sins.
"Greater
love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his
friends." John 15:13
Christ loved us so
deeply and so greatly that He lay down his life for not just His
friends and disciples, but for the soldiers who stabbed Him, who
slapped Him, who spat Him, for those pharisees who hated Him, who
accused Him falsely. For all of us sinners He would even endure a
horrible death on the cross. What can be greater and more precious
than His love and blood?
