The Consistent Pattern of Sacrifice in the New Testament

"Blood is a complex term. It doesn't mean just one thing," he says. "There's no sense in which there's still something going on between you and God because it's his death that was all in the past" In 1 John, Jesus tells us to confess our sins if everything has been taken care of for us by blood; why do we need to go back now? He asks this question as an anthropological point but also from a theological perspective. The answer may not be so clear-cut at first glance: There are many ways to think about life and death according to different texts.