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Subject: What is the Bible's take on sacriments? |
Bible Note: Joe You say, "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:" Joe that is existing human logic established by the fact that is how God worked it out. And how God has revealed his holiness and justice to us. “Your statement 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’m saying if in fact God had used the Mosaic sacrificial system to provide for our atonement before Hebrews or any other conflicting statements to that method was written and called it just, then to us it would have been just. The fact that God choose another way is merely saying God choose to reveal these traits of His attributes, nature, and logic. To even suggest that these are the total picture of God or that later unveilings of other attributes He now possesses could not possibly effect how we look at things today is limiting God. I believe when we come into full redemption and take our place at the feet of God the Father in The New Jerusalem that God will have revealed the attributes of love, justice, and holiness, that will allow us accept without regret the doom of possible loved ones to eternal damnation in the lake of fire. Which today is seemingly impossible. Are you sure your not a Lawyer? I haven't had to weigh every word so carefully since I last talked to one of those sharks. EdB |