Wilgrea7:
there will always be scriptures in the bible supporting otherwise.. there are scriptures attesting to the divinity of Christ.. there are scriptures stating otherwise.. its all depends on personal opinion... as for me, i believe Jesus to be divine because majority of the verses attest to his divinity as opposed to the smaller amount of verses that say otherwise

Wrong! What there will be are instead at lifting scripture out-of-original-context in attempts to support that which speaks contrary to that declared by God. Jesus Christ, throughout His Gospel, never in fact said He came to erase the sins of men. Contrary to that spewed in your Christian religious doctrines, Jesus Christ revealed that the onus was on the individual to turn away from doing bad, abandon their lives of disobedience to God's Law, choose to live in continuous submission to His teachings and commandments, God's Truth, until being made pure from sin by the Truth of God, and then on to everlasting goodness.

ayoku777:
■ According to many scriptures, Jesus was indeed sent of the Father to die for our sins....And this verse; according to the testimony of John the Baptist, the very forerunner of CHRIST;... Also, according to Paul, the apostle; through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Jesus died for our sins. ...Then according to the testimony of Jesus Christ Himself;... And this; ...All these verses show and prove that Jesus Christ did come and die for our sins and rose for our justification. All the verses you quoted in your opening post should be understood in the context of a mere man. No sinner can die for another sinner.
■ Only sinless blood can atone and remit the sins of another. It's either a sinner perishes for his own sins or a sinless blood atones for him. And there was no sinless blood among all of mankind.
■ God knew this. That was why God Himself promised to provide for Himself a sinless lamb for the sins of mankind.. So only the sinless lamb that God provides can die and atone for the sins of mankind, and no other man can do it. That is the context in which you are to understand those verses of the old covenant that you quoted, which made clear that no man could die for the sins of another, and that all man would perish for his own sins.

That was indeed true. Because until the lamb of God, Jesus Christ, came, no man was qualified to die for another or atone for sins. But Jesus was sent by the Father to do that and accomplish what no man could ever do.

Shalom

1. Indeed, Jesus Christ was sent to die for our sins but Jesus Christ was not a sin offering to erase our sins. He died in order to provide us a path through which we would then stop doing bad things, stop transgression God's Law, make ourselves pure by way of obedience and obtain eternal salvation as a result - Daniel 9 vs 24. Yeah, Jesus Christ died so that we might have a way to right the wrong we had initially done to God in His Old Law. (Yes, Jesus Christ came to provide this part of redemption only to the Lost sheep of Israel).

2. It is important to be clear that Atonement in Jesus Christ is not an erasure of sins much as was obtainable via the Old sin-offering and guilt-offering. No, in Jesus Christ Atonement is of personal responsibility.

3. God's Lamb Is a passover Lamb - Exodus 12 - not a sin-offering or a guilt-offering. The lamb's blood specially marks those who are set free from the curse which God placed over sinners -- defaulters of His Old Law. The Passover Lamb does not erase sins nor does He eat them. He is instead a way to redemption for those who will choose to be redeemed.

Splinz:
Calm down bro. There's absolutely nothing contradictory here. Here's what you lack: knowledge of Jesus personage. Have you not also read from the same Bible that this Jesus was sinless

Jesus Christ was sinless does not mean He was a sin offering for you nor does it in any way mean that your sins vanished into think air as a result of His death. Jesus Christ died in order that you might have a path to redemption by which you could then pay off your sin debt to God, and be able to seek Holiness and God's righteousness as a result.

ayoku777:
■ According to many scriptures, Jesus was indeed sent of the Father to die for our sins. And this verse; according to the testimony of John the Baptist, the very forerunner of CHRIST; Also, according to Paul, the apostle; through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Jesus died for our sins. Then according to the testimony of Jesus Christ Himself; All these verses show and prove that Jesus Christ did come and die for our sins and rose for our justification. All the verses you quoted in your opening post should be understood in the context of a mere man. No sinner can die for another sinner. Only sinless blood can atone and remit the sins of another. It's either a sinner perishes for his own sins or a sinless blood atones for him. And there was no sinless blood among all of mankind. God knew this. That was why God Himself promised to provide for Himself a sinless lamb for the sins of mankind.
■ So only the sinless lamb that God provides can die and atone for the sins of mankind, and no other man can do it. That is the context in which you are to understand those verses of the old covenant that you quoted, which made clear that no man could die for the sins of another, and that all man would perish for his own sins. That was indeed true. Because until the lamb of God, Jesus Christ, came, no man was qualified to die for another or atone for sins. But Jesus was sent by the Father to do that and accomplish what no man could ever do.

1. None of the verses you quoted tells you that your sins are blotted away automagically by Jesus Christ. Yes, Jesus Christ died to provide you a path to redemption but Jesus Christ was not a sin offering and so, the path to redemption of your sins you have in Jesus Christ does not purge your sins in the manner of the sin offerings of Old.

2. Jesus Christ was described as a sinless Passover lamb— the Passover lamb was not a sin offering nor a sacrifice for sins, but represented of the agreement between God and man. Exodus 12

■ So my question is simple if God requires blood to forgive our SINs, why was he able to forgive sins without BLOOD in the ancient days up to the arrival of Jesus? Consider the following bible verses; We see that God accepted flour as a sin offering in this verse, no blood required - why? Here God is tired of all the vague, fake and meaningless offerings, he wants REPENTANCE and then he will forgive, case closed. NO BLOOD required. God forgives as long as we stop doing wrong and repent from your evil ways, again NO BLOOD SACRIFICE require, just plain repentance. Here again, God forgives, NO BLOOD required. Read Jonah 3 where God did not destroy Nineveh because the people repented. I can quote much more bible verses.
So answer my questions
▪︎ Why does God need a man to forgive sins
▪︎ Assuming God became a man, why did he become a man to forgive sins when he had been forgiving the sins of thousands prior to this period.
▪︎ If we need the blood of Jesus to be redeemed and saved, where does that leave the thousands of righteousness ones who died before Jesus appeared
▪︎ Why did it take over 1,500 years for the news about Jesus to reach sub-Saharan African if it was that important?
I need answers

You are right that God does not require blood in order to forgive sins. The doctrine that God does such is not of scripture but of the doctrines and traditions of men(pastors and mogs, along with their churches).

a. — God does not need a man to forgive sins but God does need an agreement that details His terms and conditions as far as the relationship between His person and men, sin, and forgiveness(God's Law). Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the agreement/Law which God made with the sinners of Israel which details the path He has made for their redemption from the sins that weigh them down and destroy them.

b.— forgiveness of sins was granted by God to those who desired and sought it from Him. Not all men did that as if made clear in scripture as many ended up cursed and scattered by God as judgment for their sins against Him. God did not provide for such a path of redemption back from the cursed state under His old agreement; God's curse against the unrighteous was meant to destroy them in the end —Deuteronomy 28 vs 15 - 57. God's new agreement, Jesus Christ, is a path to redemption given by God to those unrighteous souls by which those of them would desire a way back to obtaining forgiveness from God and eventually having a place with the Father again.

c.— The righteous of Old died had no need for Jesus Christ given they were able to attain righteousness by the standard of Old that God had given to them. Those who instead have a need for Jesus Christ are the sinners who could not attain righteousness by way of God's standard of the Old. That is why Jesus Christ said He came to call the sinners and not the righteous to Himself.

As for the issue of the blood of Jesus Christ, well first, Jesus Christ was not a sin offering nor a burnt offering nor a fellowship offering. Jesus Christ was a Passover lamb. If you know anything about the Passover lamb it is that it was not offered as a sacrifice for sins but instead a marking of a new agreement. The blood of the lamb was used to mark those who were specially passed over by God's angel of Death in the past — Exodus 12— and the same applies as far as those who choose Jesus Christ, they are passed over by Death — the condemnation of sin aka Death - John 3 vs 16.

d.— Jesus Christ was never meant for Africans. Instead, Jesus Christ was sent to gather back to God the Lost sheep of Israel who were cursed and scattered by God Himself to all 4 corners of the earth. So, rather than think in terms of humanity, think instead in terms of God's Lost sheep of Israel and their migration into all the corners of the earth.

■ My friend, you are unwittingly a Pagan by believing in all the myths and fables you just posted up there , that is the disadvantage of following after MEN instead of God

Indeed!

truthislight:
Daniel 9:25-27New International Version (NIV)

25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,[a] the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’[c] In the middle of the ‘seven’[d] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering[/b]. And at the temple[e] he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.[f]”[g]

This speaks of events that took place over 1900 years ago during the last days of God's Nation of Israel(and Nation of Judah), not of Jesus Christ.