Input: Relationship: 'believe in', Argument/Subject 1: 'jew', Argument/Subject 2: 'god'

Answer: It was believed by the Jews that the death of such a man was accepted by God as a human sacrifice , an atonement for the sins of the people , just as the priest in the olden time heaped the sins of the people on the scapegoat and sent him out into the wilderness .