That's right, the OT are shadows of the real thing. So why do you seem to shed light on the real thing with the shadows? Must it not be the other way around?
Also, no one here minimizes the blood of Jesus. Rather, I am just telling you that it is not the literal blood per se, but the life that is in the blood of Jesus, which life is unblemished and which was given up for the sin of the world. As I have been pointing out to you, it is not the literal material blood per se that is the matter, but the life that is in the blood of Jesus, His whole life, that is the matter.
Tong
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Again, you are using semantics, whether you acknowledge it or not. The literal shedding of Jesus' blood was required. In the OT, the literal blood of an animal had to be sprinkled before God seven times to receive the remission of sin.
Leviticus 4
[3] If the priest that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the LORD for a sin offering.
[4] And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.
[5] And the priest that is anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the tabernacle of the congregation:
[6] And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
[7] And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation: and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Hebrew 9
[6] Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
[7] But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Jesus was the Lamb of God, a young male without blemish, offered on God's altar to shed His blood for the remission of sin. This is literal. If Jesus would have lived His life, without shedding His blood on God's altar, and died a normal death like everyone else, then there would have been no atonement for sin. So no, it's not just His life. And no, the blood is not just a symbol of His death. God required His physical blood to be shed upon the altar. Any doctrine that denies this is in serious error or even apostasy.