Hebrews2:14NIV"since the children have flesh and blood,he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of death-that is,the devil- and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels (spirit beings) he helps,but Abraham's descendants." The sacrifice of flesh and blood can only redeem lives sustained by flesh and blood. Not spirit beings and definitely not immortal spirit beings.
Leviticus17:10NIV"for the life (lit.soul) of a creature is in the blood,and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar, it is the blood that makes atonement for ones life." Surely there is no question that the souls of those animals offered upon Jehovah's altar in ancient Israel were sustained by blood and that the loss of blood was fatal to those souls. Jehovah clearly indicates that this necessity in the sustenance of the lives of the victims is what conferred a redemptive quality to the blood of these victims. So too the Christ, his blood could only have redemptive value if it was essential to the perpetuating of his soul. If he had an immortal soul or was the immortal God moving around in a tent of flesh his blood would have no redemptive value.
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