Since when has God required a blood sacrifice for sins to be forgiven?
From the very onset of human experience, God has demanded a blood sacrifice before there can be a remission of sin. This has been His prescription from creation, where He placed life in the blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
Les explains that from the very onset of the human experience, God has demanded a blood sacrifice before there can be a remission of sin. This requirement goes back to His sovereign mind in creation, where He placed the life of living things in the blood. Les notes that science did not catch on to this until about World War II. He stresses that it is God's prescription, not anyone else's, that without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness. Many people today do not want to hear anything about the blood—it has almost become taboo—but Les says you cannot escape it in Scripture; you have to face it head on.