Forgiveness of sin is costly: it costs the life of a living being in our place, which gives all its blood, its life, for us.

This is not some strange god which we invent that needs to be appeased and to which a sacrifice has to be made, the life even of a child, a son or daughter, in order to bring rain or good harvest or victory or whatever reason our evil hearts imagine in this invented duty to a false god which does not speak or hear.

The evidence of young children sacrificed to the gods of the Aztecs have been found with the evidence of the unspeakable terror that the child went through. We are utterly depraved without God to teach us, lead us, to show us the way of righteousness and to cleave to Him throughout our lives, for sin is at the door, knocking, seeking whom it may devour, seeking who it can lord it over, if we choose to ...