text: why the hell do christians think god demands a blood sacrifice for remission of sins? i've asked this question again and again and got no good reasons except some ancient sumerian/babylonian/jewish hogwash from the old testament. don't christians see that this idea os absolutely crazy? nor does god hate, i don't care what the bible says. the blood sacrifices in the old testment are a foretelling of the sacrifice that jesus made on the cross.  jesus died on the cross so that we may be forgiven of our sins.  because of his sacrifice, we no longer have to give blood sacrifices for the remission of sins.  now, all we have to do is pray to our lord and saviour, jesus, and ask for forgiveness with a repenting heart and our sins are forgiven.  jesus is the intercessor between us and god.  god no longer demands blood sacrifices.