Is Paul or Jesus your main guide?

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Blik

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Going back over the posts, you object to the differences I see in the way Christ and Paul present the truths of the gospel. It seems that is completely misunderstood. Rather than reading this as presented, it is read as Paul and Christ disagreeing, something I have never said. They tell the same truths, but the gospels are Christ speaking as our God and telling us how to live and be saved, and Paul telling us about Christ.
 

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When I retired over 30 years ago I began spending several hours a day in bible study. I do not study the study the doctrines of men, I keep to strictly study of scripture. Now how about you, what is your background of scripture study?
Your reply . above shows how disingenuous the quote below was.
Would you explain, Perhaps I need to make a deeper study of scripture?
I did not, have not questioned your time of Bible Study that was you.

As for my background in study ... once i stopped reading/accepting Scofield's notes, realizing how he distorted Scripture, about 40 + years ago i do not read/study the doctrines of men. I do wish i would spend more time in Scripture.
 
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In the old testament there was no forgiveness of sin without blood (Lev. 1711). Surely!! you can't believe that a God who loves the man he created would say that for 4,000 years there was no forgiveness of sin?
There is the same forgiveness that there was back then, by Repentance and ammendment:

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
 
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sacrificial system that was given to them for forgiveness of their sins
Repentance and ammendment take away sin. The shedding of innocent blood does not take away sin.
 

Beckie

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Repentance and ammendment take away sin. The shedding of innocent blood does not take away sin.
I am reading your post as a denial of the Cross of Christ is this correct?

Mat_26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Rom_5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Heb 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Eph_2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ
Heb_9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
1Jn_1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Heb_13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
 
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denial of the Cross of Christ is this correct?
I deny blood sacrifices, not the offering of the Life and Spirit of Christ. Because that is what blood means to the Spirit, they are Life, and they are Spirit:

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

No blood offering, of beast or bird, or man, can take away sin, for how can the conscience be purged from sin by the shedding of innocent blood? Nay, it will increase the condemnation.
The priests indeed receive such offering as reconciliation of the worshippers for the trespasses against the law of Moses, but for sins agains the Law of God there can be no remission, save by repentance and amendment.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

-Blood Sacrifice is leaven from the pharisees:

Matthew 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

-Corruption of the covenant of Levi:

Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

-Blood Sacrifice is not what our Father in Heaven wants:

Psalms 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

-Blood Sacrifice was not commanded by our Father:

Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

-Blood sacrifice is "of fools" and evil:

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

-Blood sacrifice is an abomination:

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
 

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I deny blood sacrifices, not the offering of the Life and Spirit of Christ. Because that is what blood means to the Spirit, they are Life, and they are Spirit:

John 6:56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

No blood offering, of beast or bird, or man, can take away sin, for how can the conscience be purged from sin by the shedding of innocent blood? Nay, it will increase the condemnation.
The priests indeed receive such offering as reconciliation of the worshippers for the trespasses against the law of Moses, but for sins agains the Law of God there can be no remission, save by repentance and amendment.

1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

-Blood Sacrifice is leaven from the pharisees:

Matthew 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

-Corruption of the covenant of Levi:

Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

-Blood Sacrifice is not what our Father in Heaven wants:

Psalms 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

-Blood Sacrifice was not commanded by our Father:

Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

-Blood sacrifice is "of fools" and evil:

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

-Blood sacrifice is an abomination:

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
The Cross of Christ is not an abomination. Thank you for being honest.
 
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The Cross of Christ is not an abomination. Thank you for being honest.
Yes, the Cross wasn't a blood sacrifice, blood sacrifices are abomination. It was a "sacrifice of God":

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
 

Beckie

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Yes, the Cross wasn't a blood sacrifice, blood sacrifices are abomination. It was a "sacrifice of God":

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Are you saying Jesus did not shed His Blood on the Cross?
 
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Are you saying Jesus did not shed His Blood on the Cross?
He shed his carnal blood, but carnal blood does not take away sin. So what He shed on the Cross was His Spirit and His Life, which is a True Sacrifice of God, and can take away our sins, by repentance and amendment.
 

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He shed his carnal blood, but carnal blood does not take away sin. So what He shed on the Cross was His Spirit and His Life, which is a True Sacrifice of God, and can take away our sins, by repentance and amendment.
He shed Gods’s holy, pure, sinless blood. He was not in the bloodline of Adam..
 

Blik

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He shed his carnal blood, but carnal blood does not take away sin. So what He shed on the Cross was His Spirit and His Life, which is a True Sacrifice of God, and can take away our sins, by repentance and amendment.
The entire old testament teaches the truth of the spirit through using symbolic flesh. Christ brought these spiritual laws to our hearts, we now learn them through the holy spirit instead of fleshly commands. It is not up to any human to tell God what to do, or to say God didn't do what we are told God did.
 
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He shed his carnal blood, but carnal blood does not take away sin. So what He shed on the Cross was His Spirit and His Life, which is a True Sacrifice of God, and can take away our sins, by repentance and amendment.
What you're saying doesn't really jive. You're saying that literal blood does not take away sin then literal spears, a wooden cross, and nails can't produce Spiritual blood. I know this because the Bible says what literal blood does.

And there's that "by repentance and amendment" again which I happen to know you are not quoting from the Bible. Why do you keep quoting that?

Hebrews 9:22
22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
 
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He was not in the bloodline of Adam.
Jesus is Son of Adam, or Son of Man:

2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
repentance and amendment" again which I happen to know you are not quoting from the Bible
Repentance and amendment is in the Bible:

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
Hebrews 9:22
22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
The priests indeed receive such offering as reconciliation of the worshippers for the trespasses against the law of Moses, but for sins against the Law of God there can be no remission, save by repentance and amendment.
 
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The priests indeed receive such offering as reconciliation of the worshippers for the trespasses against the law of Moses, but for sins against the Law of God there can be no remission, save by repentance and amendment.
This part here, quoted above, is not found in the Bible. You are quoting it from a book called The Gospel of the Holy Twelve and you're often mixing it with scripture. It looks like you're trying to pass this off as authoritative text and it isn't.
 
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1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

-Blood Sacrifice is leaven from the pharisees:

Matthew 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

-Corruption of the covenant of Levi:

Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

-Blood Sacrifice is not what our Father in Heaven wants:

Psalms 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

-Blood Sacrifice was not commanded by our Father:

Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

-Blood sacrifice is "of fools" and evil:

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

-Blood sacrifice is an abomination:

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
 
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1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

-Blood Sacrifice is leaven from the pharisees:

Matthew 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Ezekiel 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

-Corruption of the covenant of Levi:

Malachi 2:8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

-Blood Sacrifice is not what our Father in Heaven wants:

Psalms 51:16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

-Blood Sacrifice was not commanded by our Father:

Jeremiah 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

-Blood sacrifice is "of fools" and evil:

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

-Blood sacrifice is an abomination:

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Take a look at these:

Leviticus 4:35
35And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

Leviticus 5:10
10And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

and read Hebrews 9:11-28 which is the opposite of what you're saying. Here are some highlights:

Hebrews 9:14
14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 9:22
22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
 

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There is the same forgiveness that there was back then, by Repentance and ammendment:

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Ezekiel 33:14 Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
19 But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
you could use a Whole Bible believing pastor. No wonder you do not know about your spiritaul wellbeing, something like what you posted in your profile. Thinking you just don't understand is one thing other wise you are blaspheming our Lord .
 
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the opposite of what you're saying
you are blaspheming our Lord
And this is where every one decides for himself, either kill and sheed innocent blood, or repent and ammend. One of these will remmit sin. I am against murder, the thief came not but to kill steal and destroy. So I believe in repentance. But this is where everyone has to make his own decision. I can only present the Scripture and warn:

Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
 
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And this is where every one decides for himself, either kill and sheed innocent blood, or repent and ammend. One of these will remmit sin. I am against murder, the thief came not but to kill steal and destroy. So I believe in repentance. But this is where everyone has to make his own decision. I can only present the Scripture and warn:

Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

This says that God hates the hands that shed innocent blood, not the innocent blood itself. The innocent blood of Christ actually forgives sin, which is Biblical, and there are many verses that support this. The is one of the main pillars of the gospel.

Just to post one of them, here's Ephesians 1:7
7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Are you denying that Christ's sacrifice is necessary for sinners to receive forgiveness?