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Question (full): What Bible passage or paragraph states specifically that Jesus died for our Sins? As for me I think the Bible is a very complex text written on three esoteric levels akin to teachings of Origen of Alexandria "Unlike most hard-line, dogmatic believers of his day Origen believed that the Bible ...Contains three levels of meaning, corresponding to the threefold Pauline (and Platonic) division of a person into body, soul and spirit. The bodily level of Scripture, the bare letter, is normally helpful as it stands to meet the needs of the more simple. The psychic level, corresponding to the soul, is for making progress in perfection. [The] spiritual in-terpretation deals with 'unspeakable mysteries' so as to make humanity a "partaker of all the doctrines of the Spirit's counsel". [Trigg, Origen, 120-121, 126] Thanks Andras Nagy www.andras-nagy.com |
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