This is also a response to the side bar discussion under another thread titled;
Types, Antitypes, and Universalism
Don’t the following verses (along with hundreds of others in the law) speak of man having to pay penalties for sins?;I'm not aware of any scripture that says that sin can be paid for at all by anybody. (Paidion: Types, Antitypes, and Universalism pg.3)
"Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from [every] man, from every man's brother I will require the life of man. 6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man. (Genesis 9:5)
When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the LORD, and that person is guilty, 7 then he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it, and give [it] to him whom he has wronged. (Num.5:6-7)
'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. 7 But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD his guilt offering for that in which he has sinned, two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. (Lev 5:6-7)
Doesn’t the following sound kind of legalistic; “In the day that you sin you will die”… To me this legalistic type of thinking is entirely absent (Paidion)
And; "I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. (Genesis 17:7) Isn’t a Covenant a lot like a legal contract?
And; “Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.”' (Deut.27:26). Is not the Law a bit legalistic?
Isn’t our own legal system modeled after Gods ‘law’?
How can we say legalistic type of thinking is entirely absent from the Bible? The word law occurs over 600 times.
True, they may actually be due ‘more’ punishment than that. Death may just be the beginning of their punishment, but never the less one sin is all God allows before the penalty of death is applied. After the ‘first’ sin, a payment of – blood – was required and 'must' be paid. You’re own blood, or an animal, that is Gods law.‘There is plenty in the Old Testament where wrongdoers are put to death. But that fact doesn't imply that they "paid" for their wrongdoing’ (Paidion)