u did it again. unbelief, slander, all the key words. but i remember u see, u said we focus too much on Jesus and not enough on ourselves.......
let me ask u a straight question now do u believe in substitionary atonement???
I believe in Christ being the atoning sacrifice for our sins, through faith in the cross.
If you call this substitionary atonement, then I agree with that.
Some project that we should have died for our sins, and Christ died instead of us.
This has some aspects that are true, but it is an approximation of salvation and not its essence.
Jesus took the sinful attitude of man and died a willing victim of it, and forgave those who killed
Him. We take this on ourselves by faith, identifying our sin with theirs.
Someone asked once why Jesus had to die on the cross in Jerusalem. The answer was he had to
die at the hands of sinful, self justifying men, the best man can create, and forgive them.
God could not have killed Jesus, because that would have been righteousness killing righteousness.
Jesus also had to be friends with people, to be mortal just like us, showing love and care so no one
would believe Him guilty of anything and only bringing the best, supernaturally, under lining He was
God made man. The only place this could have happened was in Israel, because they were Gods
people, those who alone really knew what He was like.
If you can see this, you begin to see the wisdom of God and our salvation.
We tend to make things too religious, because we do not understand it, but know the power that
is being talked about, but at a distance.
As I write this, some parts of this I had not seen before. The Lord is good and gracious in all He
does. Praise His name.
We are forgiven, because Jesus has forgiven us through the cross. The cross is healing because it
demonstrates Gods love transcends anything we understand or measure in our lives. A friend might
die for another friend, but not their enemy. His love was to go to His enemy, lay down and be the
sacrifical lamb, an apparent paradox. But the forgiveness that flowed, to purchase a people to the
Eternal Kingdom made it all worthwhile. To see and believe this, is to be saved. It is why the symbol
of the cross is our inspiration, that through this death we might have life, Halleluyah.