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Ive seen some jewish people say that the death of Jesus for atonement was not allowed under Levitical Law.Human sacrafice was not allowed according to the Torah(OT).What can you say to them about that?

Well...

Ask them what the Torah has to say about divine sacrifice. Sure, he was fully man, but he was also fully God. ;)

To kill Jesus *was* unlawful. It was the hands of sinful men who crucified Him. That's why Jesus said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."

In fact, Jesus reveals while talking to Pontius Pilate that Pilate sinned in sentencing Jesus, and the one who handed Him over committed a greater sin. So crucifying Jesus was sin. But it was predestined. God meant it to happen as an atonement for the sins of the world.

Be that as it may, God didn't kill Jesus. But He had a plan for those who did. God would use it for our benefit.

It is amazing they can say this. since their own high Priest prophecied the death of one man that the nation not perish;

read carefully;

Jhn 11
49  And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
50  Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

Notice the following verse;

51  And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
52  And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

After prophecying this, this high priest together with all the other religious leaders sought to kill Him.

I ask you were they not blind??  see the next verses;

53  Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

But notice how that God was the one who planned His own sacrifice,by delivering Jesus into wicked hand who crucified and slayed Him  (Acts 2:23) just as Abraham spoke to his son Isaac, when Abraham went up Mt Moriah (where Jrusalem was to be built) ;

"My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."  (Gen 22:8)

But notice what the scriptures say concerning these did the work of their father Satan;

1 Cor 2
7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Jews presently have been blinded, in the reading of the OT, if not they could see, Isaiah'sm teaching concerning the suffering messiah for the sins of the nation at Isaiaih 53.


Blessings,

Petro

I say that this sacrifice was not only allowed, it was required.  The Old Covenant Day of Atonement sacrifice is what sacrifice that was made by Christ.  That sacrifice was offered only by the high priest each year...


That sacrifice was offered yearly for the sins of God's people...


That sacrifice was made via two goats.  Lots were cast, and the lot that fell on the one goat would be the goat to be sacrificed.  The blood of that goat would then be sprinkled on the Mercy Seat for the atonement of the sin of God's people...


That sacrifice required that the sins of the people be laid upon the living goat, and that that goat would be taken out into the desert, far from the people...


This sacrifice of the perfect redemptive and substitionary blood, of satisfactory removal of sin, and offered by the only individual capable, the High Priest, was made by Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.  It was not only allowed, it was required.   :)