Hi. Thank you for your response.
I do eat kosher only.
I don't know what you mean by the Sting of the law. You mentioned a death penalty and I do not know what you mean by that. For, you said that it is linked to the Sting of the law that you have not explained.
The Sting of the Law is the penalty upon those who break the Law.. which is the second death.. That is being cast into the eternal lake of fire for eternity.. Jesus saves those who believe Him and trust Him from that eternal penalty..
1 Corinthians 15:
56 "The
sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law."
You are right that we are to love our neighbor as ourself. And this is expressed in some if not all of the other commands or commandments.
As for atonement, what do you think of the word atonement here? It is the only case where it shows up for Jesus.
Well the word Atonement occurs 81 times in my Bible..
In the OT a Ram which is a sheep was sacrificed to atone for ones trespass against the will of God for the person to be forgiven..
(Leviticus 6:6-7) "And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a
ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the priest: {7} And the priest shall make an
atonement for him before the LORD: and
it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein."
Jesus is called the Lamb of God.
(John 1:29) "¶ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith,
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
This was pointing to the fact that Jesus would be offered up as a sacrifice to atone for peoples sins.. Thus allowing God to justly forgive their transgressions..
(Romans 5:10-11) "For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled,
we shall be saved by his life. {11} And not only so, but we also joy in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement."
So your bible does not use the same word as my KJV Bible uses.. Mine says we received the Atonement.. While receiving the Atonement does lead to reconciliation.. We receive reconciliation because of our trust in the Atonement..
Romans 5:11 NASB20 - And not only [this,] but we also celebrate in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Sincerely,
Jacob