There is nothing to explain. That statement is very clear and self-explanatory.
Just as for every animal sacrificed under the Old Covenant, the blood had to be shed in order "to make atonement" for sins, so for Christ -- the ultimate Lamb of God -- His precious blood (having infinite value because He is God) had to be shed for our redemption.
If you resist this truth or you reject it, then you cannot possibly call yourself a Christian, since every true Christian is washed in the blood of the Lamb.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood...(Rev 1:5).
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clear and self-explanatory~' you say of the blood of Christ, '~
nothing to explain~', YET you go straight on to '
explain', '~
Just as for every animal sacrificed ... so for Christ~'.
You further explain, this time, much, infinitely, better, '~
every true Christian is washed in the blood of the Lamb~'.
Now you see, there's what I believe. But that first explanation of yours, I don't believe. The two are diametrically contradicting, mutually excluding and destructive. "The blood of Jesus" is the only of its kind. 'It', cleanses every one of Jesus' redeemed from every sin of his or her.
Now you said it, cleansed and saved '~
in the blood of the Lamb~'. Where is the blood '
in' which the redeemed is / are cleansed or washed?
It is not in shed blood, but in his "poured out LIFE", in his "poured out SOUL". As I have used the Scripture many times, the same Scripture, but no one seems to care, "
the life is in the blood" of animal, mortal, sacrifice, whereas "the blood" of '~
the ultimate Lamb of God -- His precious blood (having infinite value because He is God) had to be shed for our redemption~' IN HIS LIFE, HIS SOUL, HIS
INFINITE POWER HE (not man) WILLED to (not '
had to') "shed" or "pour out", '~
"to make atonement" for sins~'.
Eventually therefore, NO blood of an '~
animal sacrificed under the Old Covenant had to be shed in order "to make atonement" for sins~'. In truth mortal blood had to be shed to show what transgression of the Law is, KILL God-given life!
But instead God in Christ "according to the Law of INDESTRUCTIBLE LIFE", "by the Sacrifice-of-Himself" unselfishly fulfilled the Law "God is Love".
In a word,
the 'shedding of Jesus' blood' is HIS DIVINE LIFE AND LOVE, "HIS SOUL, POURED OUT" to make atonement and establish peace between God the Saviour and the saved.