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What is it supposed to change? Personal responsibility remains.
What is it supposed to change? Personal responsibility remains.
What wasn't supposed to change immediately? What do you mean wasn't possible to allow for personal responsibility when it came to the ransom sacrifice?It wasn't supposed to change immediately. It wasn't possible to allow for personal responsibility when it came to the ransom sacrifice. None of us could pay that, but that doesn't negate personal responsibility when it comes to our own part, that is, what we can do.
It's an imaginary solution to an imaginary condition.What is it supposed to change? Personal responsibility remains.
What wasn't supposed to change immediately?
What do you mean wasn't possible to allow for personal responsibility when it came to the ransom sacrifice?
What's the imaginary condition?It's an imaginary solution to an imaginary condition.
I suppose if there's any change , its people's expectations.
But Adam did sin.It.
You are familiar with the significance of the soul / blood / life in the Bible? Eye for eye, soul for soul? The soul is the life of any breathing creature. It is contained in the blood. So the blood is the soul, or the life of any breathing creature. And sacred, meaning it belongs to God.
So . . . if someone was found murdered outside of some town in ancient Israel and no one knew who was responsible then the nearest town was "blood guilty." They had to take a bull and sacrifice it, spilling it's blood in payment for the innocent man's blood that was spilled.
Adam's blood was spilled, and for justice to be served the blood of that one was difficult to match, because he was created without sin. All men who followed him were under the effects of that sin. Except Jesus. Jesus, like Adam, had been perfect and without sin. He paid what we could not.
I think they could have believed just as well. This is just extra really.It offered a way for people to continue believing in his teachings even after he was unexpectedly crucified before the eschaton arrived.
What is it supposed to change? Personal responsibility remains.
It offered a way for people to continue believing in his teachings even after he was unexpectedly crucified before the eschaton arrived.
What does that have to do with jesus? Surely people were forgiven before jesus just as well?Not sure of your logic. We all sin, even those closest to Jesus.
What changes is that there is forgiveness for sin when we
remain within the will of God.
But Adam did sin.
Unexpectedly for whom? Jesus made it clear he came to give his life
Oh please, everyone was crucified in those days.His followers before the narrative came to be rewritten with the benefit of hindsight.
What does that have to do with jesus? Surely people were forgiven before jesus just as well?
His followers before the narrative came to be rewritten with the benefit of hindsight.
That's disgusting.In the Old Testament the forgiveness was through the blood of the lamb.
This perfect, unblemished male lamb was taken into the household for
three or four days (till people bonded with it)
Then it was slain and its blood daubed upon the lintel. This was to
signify that the 'death angel' was to pass over it.
And the lamb was to be eaten whole - not just the goodly portions.
This is the symbol of Jesus, the lamb of God, "slain from the foundation
of the world." He offered himself "once and for all."
That's disgusting.