It's a long answer, so I hope you really wanted to know. Back in the garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve sinned, that sin broke their fellowship with God. God is holy and can't have sin around him. He said that the penalty for sin was death. But in kindness he allowed them to sacrifice a lamb instead of themselves for that sin, and it would cover their sins. Later on, through Moses, God became more specific about how they sacrifice and what they sacrife, but the point was that they still had to always sacrifice. It only covered sins they had committed and they kept on sinning. It was never enough. So God sent his Son, Jesus from Heaven, to be that lamb. Jesus came down and died for us. When his blood was shed, he paid the ultimate price, and now we don't need to continually sacrifice lambs, because Jesus paid it all when he died for us, in our place. Today Christians break and eat bread and drink wine together to remember how he died for us. The bread symbolizes his body that was broken for us when he died, and the wine is a picture of his blood that he shed for us, so that ours wouldn't have to be shed. I hope that answers your questions. If you have any more, please feel free to write me about it.
