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according to ai gpt chat . the offering was alive.
They were not burned alive. The sacrifices were meant to point to Christ who would be our sacrifice for our sins. For without a death, shedding of blood, God says there is no remission of sin. Death solves the sin issue.
Why is that? Because God says the soul that sins shall die.
The Mediator’s Death Necessary
16 For where there
is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament
is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. 18 Therefore not even the first
covenant was dedicated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken every [
g]precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This
is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.” 21 Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And according to the law almost all things are [
h]purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no [
i]remission.