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just because a prayer isnt answered or answered when you want it doesnt mean it wasnt heard. i'm sure you've heard your child or a child beg and plead for one more piece of candy or to go to chuckee cheeses etc etc. but you tell them no. there are 3 ways god answers prayers...yes...no...and wait. in any case, the point is not appeasing our guilty concience, but of accepting a fathers word just as your child would that he said no to protect us or he has something better in mind.
the synod you refer to was a rabinnical aquiescence to the fact that sacrifices were no long needed. to understand this you must understand the concept of sacrifice and its place. for sin, there is no satisfactory payment but death as no one sin is greater than another whether its lying or murder. its all wrong. In lieu of killing those he loved due to the fact that human nature dictates sin is going to happen, an animal sacrifice was instituted. Jesus dying was the final word of god saying, that he was offering the same thing he offered to the Hebrews to anyone through that sacrifice.
your final sentence shows your unsureness...thank god I'm an atheist? in reality, atheist believe in a god called No God, which in fact according to everything religious and satanic is in fact a god.
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