10:2
The Hebrews had a hard time letting go of the sacrifices. They had presumably stopped offering them, but maybe they were tempted to go back to offering them, or at least hankered after the old days. We need to remember that sacrifices had been offered day after day, each time they were offered words about the sacrifices making them acceptable to God would have been said. But the very fact that the sacrifices had to be offered again and again was the very proof that they did not actually “work”. They did not really deal with the problem of sin. All wrong ideas contain the evidence of self-contradiction somewhere within them. As an example, the notion that we are mere material beings who came about purely by chance means that our thoughts and ideas can have no inherent worth or value whatsoever. So the thought that we came about by chance has no value whatsoever.
10:3,4
The animal sacrifices, far from taking away sins, were an annual reminder of the sins that people have, a reminder that we are deeply flawed, and the sacrifices actually did nothing at all about it. The corollary to this is that Christ does actually do something real about our sins. We are not left in exactly the same place we were before we put our trust in Christ, instead something fundamental has changed.
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