Yes the sacrifice of an animal can NOT take away sin...it was a substitute death to appease a wrought and angry God...His Wrath...sin cant be washed away either...or taken away...it must be destroyed and finally will be...it was not at the cross...what was destroyed there was the eternal consequence of sin...but sin itself will be destroyed when the Lamb in revelation destroys it...forever...
No justice was fulfilled by the slaying of an animal...but He was appeased that finality was brought...Eden’s experiment was over...the consequence continues...and now HalleluYah all of creations can witness the grace and mercy and patience of Him...
And finally the temporary suspension of the destruction of sin will finally occur and anything tainted with its curse will be destroyed...we are covered from this Wrath by His blood a substitute for what should have been all of us...His death alone appeased His Father...with it He FINALLY was vindicated as not only God of all but GOOD God of all...as all of creation witnessed the LOVE by His sacrifice of His only begotten Son...begotten in the Spirit to be reborn in the flesh that those born in the flesh can be reborn into spirit
Yes the way to life and eternally was opened but sin is still all around...may you abide in His love...the love of a GOOD God
The only way to take away sin is to have the life of Christ within helping us to overcome by the power of the Spirit.
Gods wrath is upon the children of disobedience, so we are to obey God and do his will. Jesus came and showed us the way, by living it out and teaching us how to live right before God, and we are now saved by his life, through him, by the word of God, through faith, by the grace of God. Not by Jesus dying on the cross. Jesus was murdered by wicked men, he even said "this is your hour and the power of darkness" God has nothing to do with darkness and he wasn't in the hearts of those who murdered Jesus, their father the devil was. Jesus even said to Pilate, those who have handed me over to you have committed a greater sin, so what they did was sinful and sin isn't from God.
God is love, he doesn't need a human sacrifice to appease him, God needed a living sacrifice to live by his will, which is what Jesus was, Jesus sacrificed his whole life, laying his whole life down to do the will of God, and he was without spot or blemish because he never sinned. He never lived by his own will but by the will if his father, he was even doing this at the young age of 12.
He never sinned thus God was seen in his fullness through him, he was in the fullness of God bodily, in his express image. And God wants us to be a willing living sacrifice, willing to lay down our lives (die the death) do his will and bring his love, his word and the life of Christ to others, and this is done through Christ by the power of the Spirit, with the hope that Christ through us can save many. We are to die for Christ to live, we are to decrease for the life of Christ Jesus to increase in and through us.
The blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin, that's not the natural blood that came from him on the cross 2000 years ago, it's the life blood of Christ within us, his blood which we drink and his flesh which we eat. Which means to take his outward and inward life in and then we are to live it out. Jesus said, if we do not eat his flesh and drink his blood, then we have no life in us. If this was his natural flesh and blood then we would be cannibals, Jesus is speaking in the Spirit and is talking about his life within, that's why he said without eating his flesh and drinking his blood we have no life in us, because we won't have his life within or be able to live it out, unless we take him in by listening to the word of God, taking in the gospel and his teachings and follow him and obey what he teaches us to do, and living it out by living the new and living way that Jesus showed and lived out for us to follow and God will bless us in his time with his Spirit who will teach us all things and help us to overcome. Jesus is our perfect example to follow, he showed us how to live right before God.