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NASB | Acts 13:38 "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, |
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Subject: What is the Bible's take on sacriments? |
Bible Note: "Back to the track God could have established the parameters of our salvation in many ways. Your assertion that it had to be Jesus is incorrect. However after God had established more definitions your assertion is correct. Example before Gen 3:15 the object of our salvation could have been anything, after Gen 3:15 He had to be human." I disagree. It was humanity that sinned, and therefore a just satisfaction for sin must be made by humanity, before God spoke in Genesis 3:15: "For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins." --Hebrews 10:4 It didn't become true once God said it; it was true prior to God revealing it. "However nothing in nature or creation forced God to supply those definitions other than His desire to accomplish what He wanted in the way He desired." But God's immutable nature plays a part in determining the "HOW" of redemption, even if the "if" and "when" of redemption are unbounded. You seem to suggest that God could have merely said in Genesis 3:15 that the Mosaic sacrificial system (for example) would provide atonement in itself, and that by definition would have been just. You seem to say that it would have been just because God would have said it; I argue that God, in fact, did not say it precisely because it wouldn't have satisfied His justice. I encourage you to take some time to read the arguments of Anselm of Canterbury in his work _Cur Deus Homo?_, which serves as the classic theological treatment of the atonement. I believe his exposition regarding the doctrine of satisfaction fits best with the biblical account. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anselm-curdeus.html --Joe! |