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God never sweeps sins under the rug.
● Ex 34:6-7 . . Yhvh, Yhvh God: compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
and abounding in loving kindness and truth; who keeps loving kindness for
thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no
means leave the guilty unpunished
● Nahum 1:3 . . Yhvh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all
acquit the wicked
Looking at those two scriptures one cannot help but scratch their head and
wonder how it's possible that God forgives the guilty, and yet at the same
time does not acquit the guilty. Well; the answer to that is quite simple:
forgiveness and acquittal are two very different things in the Old Testament.
In other words; though God forgives the guilty, He never clears the guilty;
viz: forgiveness in the Old Testament is merely a reprieve; which Webster's
defines as: to delay the punishment of someone; such as a prisoner who is
sentenced to death. In point of fact, Yom Kippur, though a day of cleansing,
is also a day for the Jews to remember that their sins are still on the books,
hanging over their heads like a sword of Damocles.
But God has devised a procedure for rescuing the Jews from their rather
precarious position.
● Isa 53:5-6 . . He was pierced through for our transgressions, he was
crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon him,
and by his scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way; but the Yhvh has caused the iniquity
of us all to fall on him.
Christ's crucifixion is commonly referred to as a vicarious substitutionary
sacrifice. But that's a misnomer because the Bible does not allow for
substitutions. The soul that sins; it shall die in its own place rather than
another soul in its place because that would not be justice; in point of fact,
that would be a miscarriage of justice. No; people themselves have to die for
their sins.
So; in order for Christ's crucifixion to protect people from the wrath of God,
it has to be, in some way, accounted as their own as well as his; and God
has invented an ingenious way for them to do that very thing by means of a
baptism that involves neither clergy nor H[SUB]2[/SUB]O.
● 1Cor 12:12-13 . . For even as the body is one and yet has many members,
and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so
also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether
Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of
one Spirit.
Seeing as how this particular baptism is supernatural rather than physical,
then of course it's to be expected to make no sense whatsoever. However, in
a nutshell; what this particular baptism does is make people participants in
Christ's crucifixion instead of merely observers.
● Rom 6:3 . . Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
● Rom 6:6 . . Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him
● Gal 2:20 . . I am crucified with Christ
● Col 3:3 . . For you died when Christ died
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God never sweeps sins under the rug.
● Ex 34:6-7 . . Yhvh, Yhvh God: compassionate and gracious, slow to anger,
and abounding in loving kindness and truth; who keeps loving kindness for
thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no
means leave the guilty unpunished
● Nahum 1:3 . . Yhvh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all
acquit the wicked
Looking at those two scriptures one cannot help but scratch their head and
wonder how it's possible that God forgives the guilty, and yet at the same
time does not acquit the guilty. Well; the answer to that is quite simple:
forgiveness and acquittal are two very different things in the Old Testament.
In other words; though God forgives the guilty, He never clears the guilty;
viz: forgiveness in the Old Testament is merely a reprieve; which Webster's
defines as: to delay the punishment of someone; such as a prisoner who is
sentenced to death. In point of fact, Yom Kippur, though a day of cleansing,
is also a day for the Jews to remember that their sins are still on the books,
hanging over their heads like a sword of Damocles.
But God has devised a procedure for rescuing the Jews from their rather
precarious position.
● Isa 53:5-6 . . He was pierced through for our transgressions, he was
crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon him,
and by his scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way; but the Yhvh has caused the iniquity
of us all to fall on him.
Christ's crucifixion is commonly referred to as a vicarious substitutionary
sacrifice. But that's a misnomer because the Bible does not allow for
substitutions. The soul that sins; it shall die in its own place rather than
another soul in its place because that would not be justice; in point of fact,
that would be a miscarriage of justice. No; people themselves have to die for
their sins.
So; in order for Christ's crucifixion to protect people from the wrath of God,
it has to be, in some way, accounted as their own as well as his; and God
has invented an ingenious way for them to do that very thing by means of a
baptism that involves neither clergy nor H[SUB]2[/SUB]O.
● 1Cor 12:12-13 . . For even as the body is one and yet has many members,
and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so
also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether
Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of
one Spirit.
Seeing as how this particular baptism is supernatural rather than physical,
then of course it's to be expected to make no sense whatsoever. However, in
a nutshell; what this particular baptism does is make people participants in
Christ's crucifixion instead of merely observers.
● Rom 6:3 . . Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
● Rom 6:6 . . Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him
● Gal 2:20 . . I am crucified with Christ
● Col 3:3 . . For you died when Christ died
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