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NASB | Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
Bible Question:
Steve, Lev 5:5 'So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these (sins), that he shall confess that in which he has sinned. Lev 5:6 'He shall also bring his guilt offering to the LORD for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin. Do you do this everytime you sin? Why not? According to your interpretation, THUS SAITH THE LORD, right? Isn't this in God's Holy Word? Do you have the right to cut this verse out of God's Word? Or are you going to twist it? Wasn't this a command to God's people? Aren't you one of God's people? Isn't God the same, yesterday, today, and forever? Doesn't His Word stand forever? THOU SHALT DO IT! To quote a forum authority on the proper interpretation of God's Word, "You may choose to ignore this passage, or think it does not fit with the rest of the Bible. But, I think you need to accept it and obey it." Wouldn't you agree with him? |
Bible Answer: Bill: The difference is that the New Testament (Hebrews in particular) tell us that the Old Testament system of sacrifice and feasts was a mere foreshadowing of what was fulfilled in Christ on the Cross: "For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." --Hebrews 10:1-4 However, nowhere will you find support that God's moral commandments are any less binding on the believer. We do not earn our salvation by them, but God-honoring works are the mark of every true believer. So says the post-Cross James: "What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?" --James 2:14 James spends the rest of the chapter explaining why the answer is "no." This is not legalistic "you must earn your salvation by good deeds." Nor is it antinomian "no matter how your life is lived, you know that you are saved simply because you claim to believe a set of facts which may or may not have the slightest impact on your life whatsover." It is the Biblical idea demonstrated clearly in the answer to Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 35: "Sanctification is the work of God’s free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness." This is the only way, in my view, to reconcile the importance that the entire Old and New Testaments place on faith AND works in salvation. Or, as the saying goes: we are saved by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone. --Joe! |