Doctrines Concerning

Salvation

D. That the shed blood of Jesus Christ atoned for the sins of the whole world.

Lev 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

 

1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

 

1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Personal Opinion:

Pretty deep stuff! 

We have to come as little children. What child can comprehend the concept of sin?  What child doesn't get creeped out over all this talk about blood being shed?

Shortly into my adolescence I got it into my head that no one can top little children when it comes to cruelty to one another.

I have never experienced cruelty in the depths which it is reached by adults so my first hand experiences would still give the palm to little kids.

Maybe the little children Jesus was referring to were children of the age of ten or twelve.  Maybe that's when we reach an age of accountability.