Shalom,
Chag Semeach Sukkot!
Before Sukkot this year I shared a little about the Festival of Tabernacles
with a close relative of mine.
I
wrote:
Today
is the Festival of Sukkot (at sunset Sept 30th this year) Sukkot may be the actual birthday of Jesus (Yeshua) The Catholic Church
celebrates HIS birthday on December 25th.
It is a big day for both Jews and those who follow the messianic
teachings of Messiach ben David (Yeshua)
Tabernacles:
Yeshua was born the first day of Tabernacles, and He was circumcised
the eighth day of Tabernacles. (Sukkot)
What
I really want to bring to your attention is that Tabernacles was a
feast of the ingathering of the Harvest. His first coming was when he
was born on the 15th of Tishri, the first day of Tabernacles, so then
would it be quite reasonable to presume that the Harvest of this
earth, the ingathering of the Second Coming of Yeshua, will occur
precisely the same day? I am not talking about the rapture of the
saints. I am talking about His Second Coming.
Luke
2:6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were
accomplished
that she should be delivered.
7And
she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in
swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room
for
them in the inn.
And
as fate would have it, they ended up in a sukkah of sorts anyway!
Have
you ever noticed most nativity scene? The figurines are usually
under
a 3 sided structure with a straw like roof… in other words, a
sukkah! For the Messiah to be qualified as Messiah He had to obey the
Torah in every way, and G-d caused it so that Yeshua was born in a
sukkah!
Yeshua
said Himself that He is the Bread of Life (John 6:48). Yeshua
was
born in Beyt-Lechem, Bethlehem, being translated, the House of
Bread.
And when He was born He was laid in, of all things, a feeding
trough,
a manger, in which grain, which is used to make bread, was put
to
feed the livestock. And in the Scriptures, especially in Psalm 23,
we
are likened as unto sheep, who at times eat grain.
Pretty
amazing, right? Think about how God is. He has done
everything about the Messiah through His festivals.
I
pray you too will get hungry to learn more of what HaShem (God) has
in store for you.
My friends response was:
"“You
are causing confusion. We are Apostolic by our belief. Pentecostal by
our experience. And saved by the blood
of Jesus."
“It
is important to me that you come back to the truth. You must have a
love for the truth. These are the last days!”
My
brother, God love him, belongs to a sister denomination of the
Catholic Universal Church, known as the United Pentecostal Church
International, a oneness (Jesus Only) form of Christianity. As
sincere as many of these followers are in their beliefs about the
deity of Jesus as being God and their heretical belief that the UPCI
has taken the place of the Jews (the Tribe of Judah) as the elect of
HaShem, they totally miss the understanding of the oneness of God,
the role of the Jews in the last days and where their beliefs and
doctrines actually come.
I've
placed links on his sentence for anyone wanting a better
understanding how the Oneness denominations DO NOT go back to the
original doctrine of the Talmidim (Disciples) of the first century
but, are theories of men from the late 1800'sand early nineteenth
century. (1914) Here I will address Saved
by the blood of Jesus.
The
UPCI emerged
out of the Pentecostal Movement, which traces its origins to the
teachings of Charles
Parham in Topeka,
Kansas,
and the Azuza
Street Revival led
by William
J. Seymour in
1906. Rejected by the mainline
churches,
Pentecostals began to form organizations of their own. One of these
new groups was the Assemblies
of God,
which formed in 1914. In
1925, three new Oneness churches were formed: the Apostolic Churches
of Jesus Christ, the Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance, and Emmanuel's
Church in Jesus Christ. In 1927, steps were taken toward reunifying
these organizations.
In
1932, the Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance changed its name to the
Pentecostal Church, Incorporated to reflect its organizational
structure. In 1936, Pentecostal Church, Incorporated ministers voted
to work toward an amalgamation with the Pentecostal Assemblies of
Jesus Christ. Final union, however, proved elusive until 1945 when
these two Oneness Pentecostal organizations combined to form the
United Pentecostal Church International. [1]
“We
are Apostolic by
our belief. Pentecostal by
our experience. And saved by the blood of Jesus?”
Note:
NOWHERE*
does the Bible use the term "Saved by the blood of Jesus".
"Will
I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God
thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: And call upon me
in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
me. ."
God
makes it clear that it's good deeds, not sacrifice that counts:
""With
what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands
of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" He has showed you,
O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do
justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? ."
(Micah
6:6-8)
So
it is clear that whereas the Nicene Christian system believes that
blood effects atonement, in the Hebrew system it's repentance,
contrition and prayer.
As
far as Jesus being the "Lamb of God", this again is solely
a NT concept.
According
to the Hebrew Scriptures, the only animals permitted for sacrificial
purposes are those that have split hooves and chew their cud. The
carcass of an unclean animal defiles (Leviticus 11:26). On these
grounds alone, human beings are disqualified for sacrificial
purposes. Jesus, as a human being, was unfit for sacrificial
purposes.
An
animal blood atonement offering must be physically unblemished
(Leviticus 22:18-25). According to the evangelists, Jesus was
physically abused prior to his execution (Matthew 27:26, Mark 15:15,
John 19:1; John 20:25; Matthew 27:29, Mark 15:17, John 19:2).
According to Paul, Jesus' circumcision constituted "mutilation"
(Philippians 3:2) and is likened to "castration" (Galatians
5:12). As a result, Jesus would again be disqualified as a valid
sacrifice.
The
New Testament's claim that Jesus' death was "one sacrifice for
sin for all time" (Hebrews 10:12) is not supported by the Hebrew
Scriptures. Mere death, no matter what was the extent of the
preceding violence or pain, does not satisfy the biblical
requirements for those times when a blood atonement sacrifice is
offered. In a blood atonement offering the animal (clean species and
unblemished) must actually die as a result of blood loss. That is why
it is called "a blood atonement sacrifice."
Jesus
(unclean human species and blemished) did not die within the Temple
precinct, at the hands of an Aaronic priest, or through the shedding
of blood. Jesus' blood was not sprinkled on the altar by the Aaronic
high priest (Leviticus 16:18-19). Animal sacrifice, offered as a
blood atonement, must conform to the biblical guidelines set down in
Leviticus 17:11: (a) Bloodshed (by means of shechitah--Deuteronomy
12:21), (b) Given solely to the Jewish people, (c) Blood sprinkled
upon the Temple altar.
Jesus'
humanity, the physical state of his body, and the manner of his death
(crucifixion) do not satisfy any blood atonement provisions found in
the Hebrew Scriptures.
Summary:
Both
beliefs agree:
a)
God commanded that literal goat and sheep sacrifices are part of
atonement for some (not all) sins.
b) Presently, the literal goat and sheep sacrifices are not necessary, and nor are they possible, and they've been replaced with some other means of achieving the same.
b) Presently, the literal goat and sheep sacrifices are not necessary, and nor are they possible, and they've been replaced with some other means of achieving the same.
They
disagree as to WHAT they are replaced with.
Nicene
Christians believe it's the figurative sacrifice of Jesus. (Human
sacrifice is not supported by OT scripture, and is called an
“abomination” in Jeremiah 32:35)
Hebrew
Scripture teaches that it's repentance, prayer, and contrition.
What
Nicene Christians making the claim that the Old Testament would
demand sacrifices are trying to do is on one hand state that they
acknowledge that literal goat and sheep sacrifices are not necessary,
as they have been replaced by another figurative means, while holding
Old Testament believers to the premise that there is no substitute.
This
is using different measures for each of the two groups.
The Nicene Christian Concept of "the Blood"
There are some Nicene heresies that are so deeply rooted in the Christian psyche that for those seeking authentic biblical religion getting beyond them is very difficult, even with the Light of Torah. One of these is the "Blood of Jesus" dogma. The famous Christian hymn declares this central Nicene dogma clearly:What can wash away my sin?The Nicene dogma of "the blood atonement" causes many to question and even reject the clear word of Torah! Some even claim that the Torah of HaShem has been "nailed to the cross" and made irrelevant!
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
What can make me white as snow?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
The Bible Clarifies Everything:
Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.That this truth has never changed.
It has always been this way:
Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
18:20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.There are two impulses that drive the human race: yetzer tov and yetzer ra. As Prophet Ezekiel says, the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. The idea of an atonement in the Nicene sense would completely undermine this vital human responsibly and denigrate the very purpose of human existence.
The notion that another person might bear our sins for us is ridiculed by Prophet Micah when he says:
Micah 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before Adonai, and bow myself before the high G-d? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
6:7 Will Adonai be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Adonai require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy G-d?
You and I are responsible for our actions, be they positive or negative. No one else can answer for nor for atone for our sins. The Bible is clear on this.
Question: Isn't it true that humans are so innately sinful that they need an outside sinless agent to redeem them from sin?
Answer: God says of sin, "you may rule over it" (Genesis 4:7). Yet, "there is no man that does not sin" (1 Kings 8:45). Indeed, "Who can say, 'I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin'?" (Proverbs 20:9). That is why God provided Israel with the means of cleansing itself from sin through the sacrificial system, which includes blood offering and repentance. By God's grace, when the system cannot be fully utilized repentance alone suffices (Psalms 69:31-32, 1 Samuel 15:22). The remedy for sin is clear, "But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die" (Ezekiel 18:21). An individual that sins can utilize those statutes that provide for reestablishing a right relationship with God.
According to the Jewish Scriptures, repentance is open to Jew and non-Jew alike (Jonah 3:5-10, Daniel 4:27). The repentant sinner undergoes genuine remorse for his past misdeeds and pledges himself to improve his ways in the future. He is to make every effort to keep away from all past transgressions. However, if righteous acts are done insincerely as an attempt to hide unrepentant iniquities, "all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment" (Isaiah 64:5).
The Christian concept is that man is hopelessly entrapped in innate original sin. However, the Jewish Scriptures provide ample testimony that although man may have an inclination towards evil (Genesis 8:21) the means of reestablishing a right relationship with God are always at hand for Jew and non-Jew alike through sincere repentance (Psalms 32:5).
There is no innate sin that separates the individual from God and forgiveness of sin is not dependent on a sinless sacrifice. Even when sacrifices were offered in the Temple the sinless animal's blood did not automatically redeem from sin. Blood sacrifice was part of a process that was primarily dependent on confessionary prayer to achieve reconciliation between the repentant sinner and God.
A KNOCK-OUT
PUNCH:THE "LAST AND FINAL SACRIFICE" TAKES THE TEN-COUNT
I.
INTRODUCTION
Christian missionaries claim that those
who do not accept Jesus as their lord and
savior, which includes the Jewish
people, are doomed to burn in “hell” because
they cannot have their sins forgiven by
God. This claim is rationalized with the
allegation that, in Biblical times, the
only way to bring about the remission of sins
was via the blood of a certain animal.
This animal had to be brought to the priest
to be slaughtered at the altar in the
Sanctuary, first while in the portable
Sanctuary and later in the Temple, as a
sacrificial offering. According to this
claim, since there has been no Temple
standing in Jerusalem since the year 70
C.E., valid sacrificial offerings can
no longer be made and, therefore, the only
way for Jews to have their sins
forgiven is through the blood shed by Jesus in his
"sacrificial" death on the
cross. In other words, the claim is that the blood of
Jesus, who was allegedly sacrificed by
God (the "Father") as a demonstration of
his great love for mankind,
has once and for all removed the stain
of “Original
Sin" from those who follow Jesus
(the "Son"). This act of love by God allegedly
made Jesus the "last and final
sacrifice" forever.
There are two main aspects to the claim
that Jesus was "the last and final
sacrifice". The first concerns the
suitability of Jesus and his death as a sacrificial
offering for the remission of sins. The
second aspect, which was investigated in
another essay, concerns the need for
blood in the atonement process.
This essay examines the suitability of
Jesus and the manner in which he died as
a sacrificial offering for the
remission of sins.
II. THE
CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE VERSUS THE SPECIFICATIONS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
The process for
testing this claim by Christian missionaries consists of
contrasting the requirements concerning
sacrificial offerings, as specified in the
Hebrew Bible, against the accounts in
the New Testament that describe the
death of Jesus on the cross as a
sacrificial offering. As part of this analysis, it is
important to bear in mind the following
two conditions that existed during the life
of Jesus, at the time of his death, and
for several decades following his death:
The Second Temple was still
standing in Jerusalem
The Hebrew Bible was the Scripture
in force
The salient issue to be addressed, and
answered, is:
According to the requirements set forth
in the Hebrew Bible, was Jesus a valid sacrificial
offering, and was his death by
crucifixion an acceptable process, for remission of sins?
The analytical phase of the testing
process identifies ten elements for which the
respective accounts in the New
Testament are compared with the specifications
provided in the Hebrew Bible, primarily
in the Torah.
One
According to the accounts in the New
Testament, Jesus was crucified by
Roman soldiers:
John 19:18,23(KJV) – (18) Where they
crucified him, and two other with him, on either
side one, and Jesus in the midst.
(23) Then the soldiers, when they had
crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made
four parts, to every soldier a part;
and also his coat: now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout. [See
also Matthew 27:35; Mark 15:24; Luke 23:33.]
According to the Levitical Law of
Sacrifice in the Torah, the animal brought as
a sin sacrifice had to be slaughtered
by the person who offered it:
Leviticus 4:27-29 - (27) And if any one
person from among the common people sins
unwittingly, by performing one of the
commandments of the Lord which may not be
done, and incurs guilt; (28) Or if his
sin, which he has committed, is made known to
him, then he shall bring his sacrifice,
an unblemished female goat, for his sin which he
has sinned. (29) And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the sin offering, and he
shall slaughter the sin offering in the
place of the burnt offering.
Two
According to the Levitical Law of
Sacrifice in the Torah, some of the blood of
the (sin) sacrifice had to be rubbed by
the priest with his finger on the horns of
the altar in the Temple, and the rest
had to be poured out at the base of the
sacrificial altar. The fat of the
sacrifice had to be removed and burnt:
Leviticus 4:30-31 - (30) And the priest
shall take some of its blood with his finger, and
put [it] upon the horns of the altar
[used] for the burnt offering; and [then] he shall
pour out all of [the rest of] its blood
at the base of the altar. (31) And he shall remove
all of its fat, as was removed the fat
from the sacrificial peace offerings; and the priest
shall burn it upon the altar for a
pleasant fragrance to the Lord; and [thus] shall the
priest make an atonement for him, and
he shall be forgiven.
The New Testament is silent on what
was done with the blood of Jesus and
with the fat of his body.
Three
According to the accounts in the New
Testament, Jesus was beaten,
whipped, and dragged on the ground
before being crucified:
Matthew 26:67(KJV) - Then did they spit
in his face, and buffeted him; and others
smote him with the palms of their
hands, [See also Mark 14:65; Luke 22:63; John 18:22.]
Matthew 27:26,30-31(KJV) – (26)Then
released he Barabbas unto them: and when he
had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to
be crucified.
(30) And they spit upon him, and took
the reed, and smote him on the head. (31) And
after that they had mocked him, they
took the robe off from him, and put his own
raiment on him, and led him away to
crucify him. [See also Mark 15:15-20; John 19:1-3.]
According to the Torah, a sacrificial
animal had to be without any physical
defects or blemishes:
Deuteronomy 17:1 - You shall not
sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that
has in it a blemish or any bad thing,
for that is an abomination to the Lord, your God.
Sidebar Note: As a born Jew, Jesus was
circumcised on the eighth day following
his birth, a ritual that leaves a scar
(Genesis 17:10-13; the “sign of the covenant”).
The circumcision of Jesus is mentioned
in the New Testament (Luke 2:21), yet Paul
refers to circumcision as being
tantamount to mutilation (Galatians 5:11-12;
Philippians 3:2).
Four
According to the New Testament,
Jesus was "the Lamb of God" whose bones
may not be broken [a reference to the
Paschal Lamb of Exodus 12:46 and
Numbers 9:12]:
John 1:29(KJV) – The next day John
seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold
the Lamb of God, which taketh away the
sin of the world.
John 19:36(KJV) - For these things were
done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A
bone of him shall not be broken.
According to the Torah, the Paschal
Lamb was not offered for the removal of
sins. Rather, it was a festive, or
commemorative, offering. Yom Kippur (the
Day of Atonement) would have been a
more appropriate time for a sin
offering:
Numbers 29:11 - One young male goat for
a sin offering, beside the sin offering of
atonement, and the continual burnt
offering, and its meal offering, and their drink
offerings. [Yom Kippur – Individual
sin offering]
Leviticus 16:15 - He shall then
slaughter the he goat of the people's sin offering and
bring its blood inside the dividing
curtain, and he shall do with its blood as he did with
the blood of the bull and sprinkle it
upon the cover of the ark, and before the cover of
the ark. [Yom Kippur – Communal sin
offering]
Five
According to the Torah, the Paschal
Lamb had to be slaughtered and its
blood used to place markings on the
side-posts and lintels of the entrances to
the dwelling. Moreover, the meat had to
be roasted and eaten, and whatever
was not consumed by the time the
Israelites were to leave their homes, had
to be burnt and destroyed:
Exodus 12:6-10 - (6) And you shall keep
it under watch until the fourteenth day of this
month; and the entire congregation of
the community of Israel shall slaughter it at
dusk. (7) And they shall take [some] of
its blood, and place it on the two doorposts and
on the lintel, on the houses in which
they will eat it. (8) And they shall eat the meat in
that night, roasted over fire, and
[with] unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall
eat it. (9) You shall not eat from it
raw, nor boiled in water; but roasted over fire, its
head with its legs, and with its inner
parts. (10) And you shall not leave any of it until
morning; and that which left over until
the morning you shall burn in the fire.
According to the accounts in the
New Testament this was not done with
Jesus after his death. In fact, Jesus
was buried.
Matthew 27:57-60(KJV) – (57) When the
even was come, there came a rich man of
Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also
himself was Jesus' disciple: (58) He went to
Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
Then Pilate commanded the body to be
delivered. (59) And when Joseph had
taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen
cloth, (60) And laid it in his own new
tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he
rolled a great stone to the door of the
sepulchre, and departed. [See also Mark 15:42-46;
Luke 23:50-53; John 19:38-42.]
Six
According to the New Testament, the
death of Jesus was a sacrificial offering
that expiated the sins of mankind for
all times:
Hebrews 10:10,18(KJV) – (10) By the
which will we are sanctified through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
(18) Now where remission of these is,
there is no more offering for sin. [See also
Romans 6:10; Hebrews 9:12.]
According to the Torah, the
Passover (sin) sacrifice, a male-goat, had to be
offered on an individual (per
household) basis, not as a communal offering:
Numbers 28:22 - And one young male goat
for a sin offering, to make atonement for
you.
Seven
According to the New Testament, the
death and blood of Jesus took care of
(almost) all sins:
Hebrews 9:22(KJV) – And almost all
things are by the law purged with blood; and
without shedding of blood is no
remission.
According to the Levitical Law of
Sacrifice in the Torah, the sacrificial sin
offering brought atonement only for
unintentional sins, except as noted in
Leviticus 5:1-6, 20-26[Leviticus 5:1-6,
6:1-7 in Christian Bibles]:
Numbers 15:27-31 - (27) And if a person
sins inadvertently, then he shall offer a female
goat in its first year as a sin
offering. (28) And the priest shall atone for the erring
person who sinned inadvertently before
the Lord in order to make atonement on his
behalf; and it shall be forgiven him.
(29) For the native born of the children of Israel
and the stranger who resides among
them, one law shall apply to him who sins
inadvertently. (30) And the person who
does anything presumptuously, whether he is a
native born or a stranger, that person
blasphemes the Lord; and that person shall be
cut off from among his people. (31)
Because he has scorned the word of the Lord, and
has violated his commandment; that
person shall surely be cut off, for his iniquity is
upon him.
Eight
According to the New Testament, the
death of Jesus brought about the
remission of sins yet uncommitted, and
of sins of those yet to be born:
Hebrews 10:18(KJV) – Now where
remission of these is, there is no more offering for
sin.
According to the Levitical Law of
Sacrifice in the Torah, sacrifices could bring
atonement only for sins committed prior
to the offering of the sacrifice. No
sacrifice was provided for the
atonement of sins committed after the sacrifice
was offered and, thus, no sacrifice can
bring atonement for sins of people
born after it was offered. This
includes both טּאתָחַ (haTAT)], a
sin offering,
described in Leviticus 4:1-5:13, and
שׁםָאָ (aSHAM), a guilt offering,
described in Leviticus 5:14-26. Had
there been, among the listed sacrifices,
even one kind of sin or guilt offering
that could bring atonement for future
sins, the person who would have offered
that particular sacrifice would not
have had to do so again for the rest of
his life. Moreover, Yom Kippur (the
Day of Atonement), which is ordained by
the Torah as an annual Holy Day
(Leviticus 16:29-34), would have had to
be celebrated by the Israelites only
the very first time after the giving of
the Torah at Mt. Sinai, had they used one
of those "super" sacrificial
offerings that could atone for sins of the future.
The claim by the author of Hebrews,
that there are no more sin offerings
required following the death of Jesus,
is false for other reasons as well:
The Second Temple stood in
Jerusalem for nearly 40 years following the death of
Jesus, during which time literally
thousands of animals were offered as sacrifices
of all sorts, including sin and guilt
offerings, as prescribed by the Torah.
The Hebrew Bible contains
prophecies about the building of the Third Temple in
the messianic era, and of the
resumption of the sacrificial system at that time. All
the types of sacrificial offerings
described in the Hebrew Bible will be made on the
sacrificial altar [חַ
בֵּזְמִ (mizBE'ah)] in the Temple, including both the
טּאתָחַ and
שׁםָאָ
sacrificial offerings. In other words, the sacrificial system,
which has been
in a state of suspension since the year
70 C.E., when the Romans destroyed the
Second Temple, will be completely
restored in the messianic era:
Ezekiel 43:21-22 - And you shall take
the bull of the sin offering, and he [the priest]
shall burn it at the edge of the
Temple, outside the Sanctuary. (22) And on the
second day you shall offer an
unblemished he-goat for a sin offering, and they [the
priests] shall purify the altar as they
purified it with the bull. [See also: Isaiah 56:7;
Jeremiah 33:17-18; Ezekiel 40:39,46-47,
41:42, 42:13, 43:13,15,18-19,22,25-27,
44:27,29, 45:17,19,22-23,25, 46:20,
47:1; Zechariah 14:21.]
Nine
According to the New Testament,
God's "only begotten son" died on the cross
for the sins of mankind, and all who
accept this belief are "saved" (i.e., get
salvation) and will go to heaven:
Romans 5:8-11(KJV) – (8) But God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we
were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Much more then, being now justified by his
blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him. (10) For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the death
of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life.(11) And not
only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom we have now
received the atonement. [See also Acts 10:43;
1Corinthians 15:3; 1Peter 3:18.]
The Hebrew Bible strictly prohibits
(human) vicarious atonement, and
mandates that everyone is responsible
for his or her own sins:
Deuteronomy 24:16 - Fathers shall not
be put to death because of children, nor shall
children be put to death for fathers;
each person shall be put to death for his own sin.
[See also Exodus 32:31-33; Numbers
35:33.]
Ten
According to the New Testament,
Jesus was "God manifest in the flesh" (this
would make it a human sacrifice):
Romans 8:3(KJV) - For what the law
could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,
God sending his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in
the flesh: [See also 1Timothy 3:16;
1John 4:2.]
The Hebrew Bible strictly prohibits
human sacrifices. The concept of human
sacrifices to a deity is foreign to
Judaism. Human sacrifice is a pagan rite:
Leviticus 18:21 – And you shall not
give any of your offspring to pass through the fire
for Molech, and shall not profane the
name of your God; I am the Lord. [See also
Deuteronomy 18:10; Jeremiah 7:31,
19:32; Ezekiel 23:37-39.]
Shalom aliekhem
Sources
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Pentecostal_Church_International
[*] http://www.shalombewithyou.com/scripture-verses/spiritual-warfare-verses/verses-on-the-blood-of-christ/verses-on-the-blood-of-jesus-christ/
Pastor Robin Almeida-Casting out demons by the blood of Jesus-live
Rabbi
Nachman of Breslov taught (Likutay Moharan 64) that every Wisdom and
Intellect has it's own specific tune and melody. It is from the
melody that the wisdom is produced and extended (as can be discerned
in Psalms (47) 'sing enlighten'). Even the the wisdom of heresy has
it's own specific tune and melody unique to the wisdom of heresy.
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