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Yes, it did say that. You seem to want to prove the OT concept of atonement was in process in the NT fulfillment of atonement? As I said, that thought is based on the false presumption that OT atonement is still functioning as it was under the OT system? It does not. The NT sense of Christ's...

1) Temporary Atonement based on the reality realized during the long era of the OT Prophets, that Israel could not retain her covenant with God and its associated blessings purely under the system of the Law of Moses. The Messiah had to come to somehow rescue Israel from the inadequacy of...

Yes, Jesus made this statement (in Mat 5) while still under the era of the Law, and stated, quite clearly, that he still expected Israel to keep every requirement of the Law. But as Messiah he came to "fulfill the Law.* You don't understand that if you don't realize he came as Messiah, not to...

Way too cynical for me. The statistics are real and bear printing. However, the reality is that God never expected more than a small minority to persevere over time and pressure. "The path is narrow that leads to life and few enter therein." But that doesn't mean all those who fail to walk the...

The entire OT Law was about atonement for sin, and Jesus said he was the complete fulfillment of the Law. Dan 9.24 Seventy ‘sevens are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to...

Yes, you have a point. Whether father or mother Jesus received flawed human flesh rendered "perfect" by the Divine act of incarnation. My point, however, was that human works had to be bypassed. Jesus could not have been the "work" of Joseph in sexually impregnating Mary. Marry, in this sense...

Catholics draw upon Luke 1:28 to show Mary's privileged position to have become the Mother of Jesus, Son of God. And so she was! I would prefer to look on the fact that it was her child that was being emphasized, and much less so his Mother. It wasn't praising Mary, but rather, remarking about...

Though I would certainly agree with some of your "thoughts," I would not summarize the realities that I see using your words and generalizations. Yes, we need to think right, talk right, and better--do right. And that failure may even be the direction we are generally heading. But to...

Mary referred to God as her "Savior." All of mankind became sinners in Adam, according to Paul. Rom 5.12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— A number of saints had their defects...

Well, some people may feel that way, but that is a mild form of legalism. There are Scriptures that seem to indicate Baptism is necessary for Salvation, but looking at the complete testimony of NT Scripture we do not find that Water Baptism is the essential Baptism--Spirit Baptism is, or in...

I don't know. Mary's ovum could constitute a sinful product, just like every other part of her being that operates independent of her will and yet is part of Mary. God could either heal her DNA or produce an independent DNA that replicates her own defective cells and molecules. But Joseph's...

Above my pay grade!

Right. I was saying Jesus was sinless--not Mary.

In Christianity, commitment is everything. In fact, it is a covenant made between God and the individual. So, when someone professes faith in Christ either for the first time or for the first time seriously then one should dedicate himself or herself, preferably in a public way (though not...

Calling my statement "self works" is a judgment call--not a biblical statement. Jesus' Gospel plainly called for "repentance," which was not a call to "self works." Becoming judgmental is not going resolve theological issues--it just divides.

If you want to believe that the Apostolic commission to Baptize should be carried on throughout history to all ministries, or if you wish to think all Christians should at some point in their lives be Baptized, whether raised in the church or converted later in life, that's up to you. It never...

The water of Baptism was purely symbolic and ritualistic. John the Baptist recognized that his diminishing ministry had to give way to a greater Spirit Baptism that Jesus also represented symbolically in Christian Baptism. But again, the "water" was symbolic of our needing to be born in the...

Yes, Works follow genuine Faith. You do have to do good Works if you wish to prove your Faith is real. What good is it to respond to God's word that calls you to repentance if you don't repent? What kind of Faith is that? But yes, when the Son is in your life, he is the one who provides it--we...

Some of the issue here with me is semantical. When I use the word Sacrament, I'm not referring to "Sacramentalism" in the sense that the ritual obtains mystical or almost magical powers. God is certainly in the ritual, but not of necessity in it every time it is enacted. Doing any ritual is no...

Yes, there's a lot of agreement in what we're sharing. There may be some nuanced arguments one way or another, though I'm not sure? You say that after we surrender to God and have been tested God puts in us His spirit and mind through Jesus. I'm not sure if you wish to make this a timetable...