Episode 31: Why Did Jesus Have to Die—Part 9, SACRIFICE III

The blood was the element in Old Testament animal sacrifices that made atonement for sin. But contrary to traditional Penal Substitutionary interpretations, Vinnie reframes its significance around an earlier Old Testament definition of atonement. He shows how Jesus’s spiritual blood has now become the pitch—the tar-like covering—that seals us through the New Birth, releasing us from the foundational problem of sin itself.